Suicide Doors?

[Charley Davidson]

How hard is it to suicide doors and what's the best way to go about it? Neither of my doors open or close right and need work so thought I'd do a suicide on it.[S

64 Dodge D100 for you new guys that aren't familiar with my truck.

 

[Tripper]

Bear Claw makes hinge kits for that which makes it a lot easier now.

BoB

 

[LOWANDRATY]

suicide doors

speedway sells a budget hinge that work great, you can build your own mounts to the door and body, drill out and bolt on. Item #: 91652820

 

[LOWANDRATY]

suicide doors

I used some hinge's from lowes, I made a plate and pop rivot to the frame support, welded the hinge's to the plate and the inner door support I made, then drilled holes through the plate and frame support, so I could adjust everything, and bolt it down, then welded plates to the hinge's ground it all down and it works and looks good lots of time but only somewhere in the price of $12.00 I did buy good bear claw latches and I will put some sliding door locks on the front of the door inside to keep it closed just in case. if the hinge's ever give me problems I will replace them with the speedway parts.

 

[LOWANDRATY]

opps

pictures here

 

[cantwell.colton]

pictures here

i was JUST about to ask why it couldnt be done that way
if i didnt care about them being "hidden" -- thank you for
answering my unasked question...
was actually thinking of using horse trailer door hinges...
but same concept.

 

[VonHyde]

i bought my hinges from airbagit.com, Hagen auto also sells hinges. they arent that hard to put it just making sure you follow the directions and make sure everything is square. also buy the whole kit using the bear claw latches are way easier than making your stock latches work.
if you look under my build im installing them right now. also youll have to brace the inner skin on that heavy door

 

[sneakysnake]

My build link has a link on a place to get hardware at a really good price.

 

[NewIronRats]

Thanks for posting this info. I want to do my doors this way and had no idea how to or where to get parts.[P[

 

[bin building]

go to your local junk yard find yourself a van with barn doors use the jam and the edge of the door that the hindgemounts to dosnt mater what the doors look like cuz yer gona cut the crap out of the to make them fit your ride doing it this way eliminates lining up the hindges its so easy and way cheaper i ued a chev van and it worked awsome and its quick [cl ive done t the other way with bear claw latches and hidges they in my oppinion are not that great ofquality and arnt usually in stock when somthing ad happens and the junk yard always has a chevy van

 

[RimSpoke]

I was in a similar situation with my '36 Chevy, they were dropping badly & I was planning to suicide them. The first thing I did was to get them to close right & align in their stock form. My thinking was that if they didn't line-up right to begin with, changing the hinge location wasn't going to solve anything.

Door Drop:

FWIW, I didn't want to hide mine and flip-flopped 'em side to side:

Getting them to align correctly before doing anything else turned out to be the right way for me to go since some of the misalignment was in the body. It would've stunk to do the hinge work then find there was another cause contributing to the problem and then have to redo the hinges because the alignment changed afterwards.

 

[imapeopleperson]

Has anyone used the door hinges of of an extended cab truck? just fishing for some ideas, but seem like they would work.