DIY lift off hinges

[720Racer]

I've been thinking about those cool $200 lift off door hinges, and read the "how to" version where you cut off one of the small ears of your existing hinges. I just found these hinge pins on ebay and was thinking you could replace the stock under/middle/over design with a set of these. If it worked they'd be cheap enough to buy another set for lift off tube doors. Might be hard to weld w/o warping, or hard to make all 4 the same, but still makes me wonder.....

Anyhow, thought I'd share.

[Formerjughead]

not big enough...........or sturdy enough I think they'd be jumping off the pins.

[welndmn]

On normal cars, I have seen people just remove the Stock hinge pin, and get a replacement from the "Help" section at the parts store.
Installing those new pins from the bottom, and placing a C-clip on the top of them (they are longer then normal) allows you remove the snap ring and lift off.
Dunno if those fit EB's though.
If not, just using a tight fitting peice of round tube and welding one end to the hinge would work.

[Bronco Brian]

Good Idea

ya know I have an extra set of hinges I should look at makeing some thing like that.

Brian

[earlybronco72]

I have a set of 5/16" pins with the a thin metal piece that goes from one end to the other and it is shaped kind of like a D. I just had to drill out the existing holes slightly. Makes removing the doors a two minute job. The one problem is that the body line on the top hinge gets in the way of the head on the pin. I just massaged the body a little and it slides right in. You could always come up from the bottom though.

[earlybronco72]

Well, I figured my discription sucked so I broke out the camera. Just remember my bronco is hammered, an these pins have been through a lot of it.

[Delta 4 Wheel]

I just massaged the body a little and it slides right in. You could always come up from the bottom though.

Holy Crap Batman...what do we have here???

[CityHick]

Holy Crap Batman...what do we have here???

I was going to leave that alone but apparently great minds think alike, or at least twisted minds...

[earlybronco72]

Holy Crap Batman...what do we have here???

Holy crap. Taken out of conotation makes that sound really bad. Thanks for the laugh.

[Delta 4 Wheel]

I was going to leave that alone but apparently great minds think alike, or at least twisted minds...

I was a virgin clean minded young man before I went to Poly....

























No wait, I wasn't. Sorry.

[Delta 4 Wheel]

Holy crap. Taken out of conotation makes that sound really bad. Thanks for the laugh.

Sorry, that one was WAY too good to pass by.

[CityHick]

I was a virgin clean minded young man before I went to Poly....
No wait, I wasn't. Sorry.

Glad I'm not the only one

[720Racer]

I was thinkin' the raw hinges looked like these lift off hinges. Not nearly as simple as Marc's.......

[Daddy4zack]

I was thinkin' the raw hinges looked like these lift off hinges. Not nearly as simple as Marc's.......

That looks good though.. i did the home lift off version for my tube doors.. I dont like it too much.. not sturdy enough.. But those look nice..

Aaron

[Delta 4 Wheel]

Build up a simple Jig and fab those ebay hinges on. I bet they are the same used, they look close enough for me.