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I am just about done messing with these cheap old brittle-a$$ plastic door panels. Has anybody simply bolted a piece of wood or aluminum onto the 2 screw holes that the finger cups screw into?
I would be fine leaving the door panels off altogether and replace with a solid one-piece solution for armrest/door-pull . . .
Post pics of your hack job solutions, redneck or refined
I do have the metal finger cups from Bronco Graveyard, so not really looking for that solution.
More interested in your diamond plate idea here. Great idea. So these are a custom one-off deal, right?
I was also thinking of just leaving the door panel open, and just bolting an armrest with finger pulls onto the existing metal shelf piece where the finger-cups screw into. Maybe a smooth piece of wood or thick plastic . . .
Not my personal idea, just some pics I save from FTE over the years. And open door (no panel or any thing) is going to be noisy, colder No big deal for a farm/mud/off roader but for a DD maybe no so good? And the metal edges of the finger pull mount bracket are sharp. See the arm rest in the last pic? Maybe you go with that? If thread plate is to much $, go with some thin wooden paneling? You can always over with tread plate to stiffen the plastic panel. You can even make a full length
panel to cover the speaker area of the door panel.
How do they attach these homemade door panels? Every time I put a screw into the sheet metal on my truck it just spins freely and can’t be tightened down. Even if I use a self-tapping screw.
Looks like your basic self tapping sheet metal screw. You have to hand torque them to "almost tight enough". A little to much and you will strip the door metal hole right out. Then your only option is to step up in screw size... and careful you will be chasing that rabbit down the hole and inside the door. lol
Or you can go with rounded head screws and lock washers and nuts from the back side. But then you have to be able to access all the mount bolts.
well now i see what im gonna do with my 74 as far as door panels and handles now! good! didnt realize you could just flat panel these doors like that.. nice..... awesome.,,,, good. cuz driver side was gone and pass side was broken. and there are none of thes for parts here adn def no good panels to be found. so yeah... flat panels its gonna be in mine! hah,.
and i have a bunch of thin foam sheet roll whichj can go right under vinyl interior material on the panels. with some good HD adhesive. perfect.
and i have a pair of large style flat mount arm rests from a '69 grain truck would be great for this,.
That wood armrest is a work of Art. Now if we can just get Art to mass produce them.
Seriously, this is what I was looking for - The 2 mounting holes where the finger cup screws go could be enlarged, and stronger bolts sub'd there. Done
anyway, I fixed my damn plastic door panels, replaced the finger cups with metal ones, added insulation, and used all new plastic push screw thingies. . . . and they still look like sh^t
That wood armrest is a work of Art. Now if we can just get Art to mass produce them.
Seriously, this is what I was looking for - The 2 mounting holes where the finger cup screws go could be enlarged, and stronger bolts sub'd there. Done
Anyway, I fixed my damn plastic door panels, replaced the finger cups with metal ones, added insulation, and used all new plastic push screw thingies
Do I need to go get them and take actual measurements? Did you notch the door panel where it contacts the head of the 2 bolts that hold the 90* bracket on? No worries the finger cup cover the notches.
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Aftermarket Armrest/door-pull
