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Glove box door slider hinge mod for cage clearance

bigwalton

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IMPORTANT NOTE!!! Pics are from A RIGHT-HAND DRIVE postal Scrambler! Reverse them for a normal Jeep, don’t do exactly what I did.

This came up on my stroker thread and want to share it here. When I did my cage, the a-pillar on my passenger side blocked the glove box door.

I modified the hinges to use a long screw that I installed and then ground the threads off of to allow the door to be unlatched, slid to the right and then opened.

The two hinge pics show the door to the left and right.

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The angle and camera lens make it look like the door might clear the a pillar. I assure you, it does not. ;)

In the partially open pic you can see how off-center the door is after sliding right.
 
Found the thread I was thinking of but the pics don’t work now. Simple enough and has the step by step.

bigwalton

Post in thread 'Postal full cage-with a couple twists'

How to keep the stock glove box door with a cage

Modified the glove box door today along the lines of something that I saw somewhere online way back when.

Pulled the door off, this is what the stock hinge looks like. The two ends attached to the door hold the riveted pin and the hinge rotates.
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I ground off the end of the pin with a Dremel and it knocked out easily with a nail/hammer.
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I cut one side of the mount...
 
Ugh. Now if I decide to do this mod, I will need to find a replacement box to make the glovebox useful.
 
gr8dain said:
Ugh. Now if I decide to do this mod, I will need to find a replacement box to make the glovebox useful.
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For Mater, I made one up out of plywood and some metal unistrut type stuff because the stock paper box was in tatters.
 
Since I was getting a custom dashboard cut by Double D Fab, I had him move the glove box over and swap positions with the right side speaker. So now my cage sits in front of the speaker, and the glove box is easier to get to. This is the Tuffy locking glovebox.

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gpassida said:
Since I was getting a custom dashboard cut by Double D Fab, I had him move the glove box over and swap positions with the right side speaker. So now my cage sits in front of the speaker, and the glove box is easier to get to. This is the Tuffy locking glovebox.

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I did the same for my new roll cage, of course mine doesn't look anywhere as nice as yours. (y)
 
gpassida said:
Since I was getting a custom dashboard cut by Double D Fab, I had him move the glove box over and swap positions with the right side speaker. So now my cage sits in front of the speaker, and the glove box is easier to get to. This is the Tuffy locking glovebox.

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Dan makes some nice dashes. I have one in my shed, 3rd owner , first 2 never installed it. I will one day, got 2 sets of new autometer gauges for it
 
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