I recently took my doors and top off for the 1st time. I was putting the doors back on to go back to work(nasty roads going into the job site and rain in the forecast). So to my mess up I had all the doors hung and was putting the nut on the front passenger door. I was using the ratchet and wasn't paying attention or became the hulk for a split second and rung the stud off in the nut. Anyone done this? How do I fix this without getting another door? Thinking extract the stud get a new one then carefully put the nut on properly. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Honestly I wouldn't worry about it if all you broke was the threaded section. I haven't had the pin nuts on my jeep for over a year. Take them off, store them in the convenient tray beneath your cargo floor, and forget about them. If it ever comes time to trade in or sell your jeep, just tell them what happened(or not, everyone has different levels of divulgence in them). As for replacing the mistake, maybe buying a new set of hinges would be cheaper than a door.
Agreed, you don't have to have them on. Some folks take them off and put them on every time because they feel they will keep someone from stealing the doors. Then there are the folks that believe they are the only thing that will keep the doors from flying off in a rollover situation. You also have your people who say you have to put them back on because jeep engineered them that way.
Personally I tossed em in my spare nut/bolt bucket when I took mine off 5 years ago. Haven't seen them since.
thanks guys for easing my mind. I looked into some new hinges but im just going to roll with it.
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