W.R.Buchanan
Legacy Registered User
- City
- Ojai
- State
- CA
Just so you know these doors were made by ACME in the 1980's and were designed to fit "Acme CJ-7 and CJ-8 Hard Tops." They had a slightly different door opening than a Jeep Hard Top and are a different shape on the top edge than Jeep Full Doors. I had to drive to San Jose to get them and that was just the beginning of a long bout with "PITB" to get them to this point. Still have more to do to fine tune them to where they are not annoying and look right in the end. I have all totaled about 8 weeks over all of sanding and fitting and futsing with them and even now they are not even 95% of the way I'd like them to fit. Not horrible but far from perfect!!!
The sliders are custom from an outfit in Washington State called Motion Windows who specialize in making windows for boats. I worked up a nice sweat installing them in the doors as they kind of fit.
I have to "Make" Weatherstripping for the doors this week, and we have a good plan worked out to make them. There is nothing that I could buy that would work.
Nothing has been easy on the Door Project or the Hardtop Project. Nothing bolted" right up and everything had to be hand fitted.
Just so you know, I bought the motor for this project in 2005 and had the Frame on Wheels by 2008 . I first started documenting the build over at 4BTSwaps.com at that time.. So far that thread has 294,000 views. Been here since 2010
Please Note: Anyone thinking of building any car from scratch has no idea what they are in for. How many individual piece parts are there in a car? I have no idea,,, but I either bought or made every one on this Jeep. And there is still a ways to go!
Randy
The sliders are custom from an outfit in Washington State called Motion Windows who specialize in making windows for boats. I worked up a nice sweat installing them in the doors as they kind of fit.
I have to "Make" Weatherstripping for the doors this week, and we have a good plan worked out to make them. There is nothing that I could buy that would work.
Nothing has been easy on the Door Project or the Hardtop Project. Nothing bolted" right up and everything had to be hand fitted.
Just so you know, I bought the motor for this project in 2005 and had the Frame on Wheels by 2008 . I first started documenting the build over at 4BTSwaps.com at that time.. So far that thread has 294,000 views. Been here since 2010
Please Note: Anyone thinking of building any car from scratch has no idea what they are in for. How many individual piece parts are there in a car? I have no idea,,, but I either bought or made every one on this Jeep. And there is still a ways to go!
Randy