Help getting doors off a Cherokee
 

A neighbor is junking his 1994 Cherokee Sport and I've been raiding it
for any parts I need (1996 Cherokee Classic). So I want to change a
couple of the doors, and getting to those bolts with the star grooves in
them is real murder, and there's one that I can't even get loose without
bending the tools.

So have any of you had experience with this? Am I going about this the
wrong way? Is there any way to knock the hinge pins out instead of
messing with the star wrench?

Thanks in advance -

BS

Re: Help getting doors off a Cherokee
 

Bill Sands wrote:
>
> A neighbor is junking his 1994 Cherokee Sport and I've been raiding it
> for any parts I need (1996 Cherokee Classic). So I want to change a
> couple of the doors, and getting to those bolts with the star grooves in
> them is real murder, and there's one that I can't even get loose without
> bending the tools.
>
> So have any of you had experience with this? Am I going about this the
> wrong way? Is there any way to knock the hinge pins out instead of
> messing with the star wrench?
>
> Thanks in advance -
>
> BS

A Lot of those torx bolts are glued in that needs heat to activate it to
loosen them.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
'New' frame in the works for '08. Some Canadian Bush Trip and Build
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Re: Help getting doors off a Cherokee
 

Bill Sands wrote:
>
> A neighbor is junking his 1994 Cherokee Sport and I've been raiding it
> for any parts I need (1996 Cherokee Classic). So I want to change a
> couple of the doors, and getting to those bolts with the star grooves in
> them is real murder, and there's one that I can't even get loose without
> bending the tools.
>
> So have any of you had experience with this? Am I going about this the
> wrong way? Is there any way to knock the hinge pins out instead of
> messing with the star wrench?

Drill and Dremel?

Re: Help getting doors off a Cherokee
 

Bill Sands wrote:
>
> A neighbor is junking his 1994 Cherokee Sport and I've been raiding it
> for any parts I need (1996 Cherokee Classic). So I want to change a
> couple of the doors, and getting to those bolts with the star grooves in
> them is real murder, and there's one that I can't even get loose without
> bending the tools.
>
> So have any of you had experience with this? Am I going about this the
> wrong way? Is there any way to knock the hinge pins out instead of
> messing with the star wrench?
>
> Thanks in advance -
>
> BS

I think you need an impact driver something like this.

http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/w...70_36882_36882

Use the right size Torx bit and whack it with a bfh and the screws
should come loose.

Jeff DeWitt