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Ok, it has
been awhile since I did any meaningful project on the
Jeep.
I did throw
the hard top on in the mid of the week as the weather
here has begun to turn cold. I did no cleaning or
restoration on it and that will have to wait until
spring.
To make the
top worth anything the doors need to go on. At the start
of this journey I shipped the front grill and windshield
of to the paint shop because there was some rust
developing. This Jeep came from the factory with a soft
top and the PO purchased a hard top and some used doors.
The doors were paint red, not garnet red, so they went
off to the paint shop also.
They have
been sitting in the basement all summer as the Jeep went
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I prepared
the work bench for the task of putting the doors back
together
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The door was
put on the operating table
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First task
was installing the new weather strip
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The bottom
half was a true snap
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And the top
half just gets pushed into the channel in the door, no
glue required
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Next the lock
access panel needed to be removed so that the water
barrier could be reinstalled |
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The water
barrier was laid in place |
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And the
access panel was pop riveted back in place (that is how
I found it when I took it apart |
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The top trim
strip for the door panel was laid in place and I noticed
there was no hole for the last screw to hold the trim in
place. This trim was missing when I got the jeep and I
purchased a used one as it is not made in the
aftermarket. I drill a hole |
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And the trim
was screwed in place |
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I have not
been able to fine good original Garnet door panels (the
ones in the Jeep when I got it were black, so I
purchased aftermarket ones and will keep looking., they
had to be prepared for installation as there were not
holes for the window crank, door handle, and the
Christmas tree snaps needed to be installed |
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The top edge
of the panel is slipped into the trim strip and slowly
lowered to line up the Christmas tree snaps with their
holes |
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Woops, missed
a step, the door restraining strip was installed |
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The window
crank was installed |
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This snap
button was snapped in place (no garnet, will keep
looking |
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A new window
wipe was installed (old one was removed) |
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The door was
carried up from the basement and set onto the Jeep (in
the rain) |
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The water under the Jeep is not a
leak, it is from the exhaust condensation from my wife's
300C when I started it to move it out of the way. It is
getting cold here, the doors are going on just in time. |
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The
aftermarket door panel is not a good match; I need to
find a good set of original ones. |
