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Feb 13, 2005 | 07:38 PM

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Suicide doors

I am wanting to do suicide doors on my 66. I heard rumors that there is some type of problems with the hinges. Has anyone seen or heard about it done before?

Feb 13, 2005 | 10:36 PM

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I saw an article in maybe Truckin or Street Rodder where somebody did it. What I remember they had to relocate the fuel tank and do a bunch of fab work on the lock pillar. Might check their archives. I bet somebody on here saw the same article or has done one.

Feb 14, 2005 | 11:42 AM

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You'd have to beef up the back of the cab to support the weight of the doors. The cowl, dash, firewall, and floor make a nice box to hang the doors from. You'd have to recreate this box on the rear of the cab. Then you have to beef up the rear of the doors. Front end of the doors are made up of two and three layers of sheetmetal plus hinge boxes.

Feb 14, 2005 | 07:22 PM

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i have been looking into doing this myself when i get done with my chassis, i cant be of much help other than i saw a good write up on doing this on a everso popular s-10 on suicidedoors.blank , hope you go for it, best of luck.

Feb 16, 2005 | 04:28 PM

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Couple guys on the Slick60's forum are into this now. Basically they have cut the hinge are out of the C pillar and done a 180 to the back of the opposing door (cut the driver side pillar and put it in the B pillar spot of the passenger side). Additional support was added to prevent flex. A write up on their progress should be coming soon.

--Mike

Feb 16, 2005 | 04:44 PM

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I'll be watching for that one. I would like to see a suicide uni with full tilt nose, tubs, and a blown cammer.

Feb 17, 2005 | 10:24 AM

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I have been putting Suicide doors on the back of the Super Crew to replace the original beat up doors. Will attempt to put some pics into the gallery here.

It involved some custom work on the c pillar and custom modified hinges. I have tried to make the conversion as simple as possible based on the stock ford hinges. No need to buy the set of hinges at 300 bucks when you have 15 or 20 pair of stock hinges in the parts bin.

To do the conversion there needs to be a lot of work done to the front of the door to lighten up the load and then transferd to the rear of the door to stiffen up this area.

I just placed Acura electric door latches in the door and they work pretty well and hooked up a door pull. a finger push on the door latches it securly. Re worked the door to have the stock handle at the front so each is like a mid sixties contential. Made a piece to mount on the the handle to convert the horizontal push motion into verticle down for operation of the latch from the outside.

The Crew doors are about 8 inches shorter than a stock door and will weigh a little less in the finished product.

Garbz