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How To Completely Disassemble Your Doors by fieroboom
Started on | : 11-29-2008 10:24 PM |
Replies | : 61 |
Last post by | : JohnWPB on 01-27-2012 11:19 PM |
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Dec 17th, 2008
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fieroboom Member Posts: 2132 From: Hayden, AL (BFE) Registered: Oct 2008
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| quote | Originally posted by Lee Phillips:
VERY Nice! I hope I don't have to that much disassembly (lubrication of windows and locks, slides, etc; adding power windows; changing to power mirrors) but here's pix of how to do it all. THANKS for posting it!
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You're very welcome!  edit to do da pwn teh page dance... [This message has been edited by fieroboom (edited 12-17-2008).]
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03:33 PM
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Dec 18th, 2008
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02greens10 Member Posts: 813 From: Ashland, Ohio Registered: Feb 2008
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FYI you didnt need to cut the mirror the studs are just screwed into the mirror and just unthread like a bolt. Ask me how I know. I did the same, excpet cutting the bolt with a grinder.
I just did my doors with new dew wipes and greased my tracks and rollers. Also grease you latch from the inside. The door is literally like new now.
Anyone have a cheap source for the molding clips, mine all busted too.
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01:07 AM
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BMTFIERO Member Posts: 1187 From: Beaumont, TX Registered: Dec 2007
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Add to My Favorites
thanks
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12:53 PM
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Mar 26th, 2009
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BigB Member Posts: 75 From: Mississauga, ON Canada Registered: Oct 2007
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The fierostore has the molding clips. I've taken panels off a few times now and find that applying pressure first up then out (top first) will save you from breaking the molding clips - they are designed to release without breaking.
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03:37 AM
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sjmaye Member Posts: 2468 From: Hendersonville, TN USA Registered: Jun 2003
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Well Done. Thank you very much. I will be using this very soon. ++++ for you
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04:56 AM
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Aug 22nd, 2009
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Ridgelandbaseball Member Posts: 383 From: North Ridgeville, Ohio USA Registered: Aug 2009
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Great instructions. I will be doing this myself.
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10:53 PM
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Dennis LaGrua Member Posts: 15677 From: Hillsborough, NJ U.S.A. Registered: May 2000
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Thanks for taking the time to go through a complete disassembly of the door. While partial disassembly works for most repairs most of the time, this post shows how everything goes together. A + post for sure. ------------------ " THE BLACK PARALYZER" -87GT 3800SC Series III engine, 3.4" Pulley, N* TB, LS1 MAF, Flotech Exhaust Autolite 104's Custom CAI 4T65eHD w. custom axles, HP Tuners VCM Suite. "THE COLUSSUS" 87GT - ALL OUT 3.4L Turbocharged engine, Garrett Hybrid Turbo, MSD ign., modified TH125H " ON THE LOOSE WITHOUT THE JUICE "
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11:57 PM
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Aug 23rd, 2009
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86Red2M6 Member Posts: 151 From: Medina, Ohio Registered: Jul 2009
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Thanks for the detail, I will be doing some door work. This will save me the headache of figuring it out as I go. Great detail in the pics.
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12:36 AM
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John W. Tilford Member Posts: 413 From: Bloomington, Indiana, USA Registered: Aug 2005
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Let's get back to the important item: the fence tool.
The pointy thingie can be driven, as one would swing a hammer, between the inverted-U shaped classic fence staple and the wooden post it's in and you want it out. After a couple of hits, you can hook the point under the round part of the staple that's exposed. If you are dealing with a staple stuck in really hard wood, you can place the point in the appropriate spot trying to get under the staple and hit the other, flat, side of the tool with a real hammer. Once you have penetration, so to speak, you can pry/pull out the staple by pulling back on the handles of the tool, with a similar motion to pulling out a nail with a carpenter's hammer.
The "hammer" side is used like it looks, just like a small hammer. You have to hit harder and more times, but you can drive a staple to hold wire fence to a wooden post. Also used as described above, to be hit by a real hammer to drive the point where you want it to go.
The pincher/center can be used to grab loose staples and just pull them out, as you would use pliers. Less obvious, but really helpful when fixing fence, you can grab the wire fence and pull it tight against a post by using the tool as a lever, then, with your other hand and a real hammer, drive a staple to hold the tightened fence in place. It is a good thing to use a metal tool to hold, and pull hard on, barbed wire fence.
Thanks for taking me back a few decades!
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06:37 PM
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Oct 6th, 2009
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css9450 Member Posts: 5530 From: Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA Registered: Nov 2002
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| quote | Originally posted by fieroboom:
Once the door skin kinda pops free, stop pulling and look underneath it. The linkage to the door handle & lock still need to be disconnected:

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Well that sure is special! I've been trying for two days to remove the latch and handle from inside the door. My fingers just don't fit in there let alone with any tools in hand. I never realized the handle and its mechanism would come up with the door skin. I'm in the midst of a complete door swap but I'm reusing the mirror, dew strips, lock cylinder and GT aero molding from my original door. This swap is going on a week now! | quote | Originally posted by 02greens10
FYI you didnt need to cut the mirror the studs are just screwed into the mirror and just unthread like a bolt. Ask me how I know. I did the same, excpet cutting the bolt with a grinder.
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That's what I found too; I panicked SEVERELY when I discovered the studs were spinning along with the nuts on both my doors, but no matter, the studs came out nicely with the nuts still on them, no problem at all.
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08:39 PM
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Jan 1st, 2010
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Formula88 Member Posts: 53788 From: Raleigh NC Registered: Jan 2001
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Any chance of getting the pics rehosted? Or can everyone else see them ok?
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10:38 PM
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PFF
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Terry_w Member Posts: 930 From: Fort Worth,TX Registered: Sep 2008
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| quote | Originally posted by Formula88:
Any chance of getting the pics rehosted? Or can everyone else see them ok? |
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Just one of many posts ruined by posting pics that are hosted offsite.
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11:54 PM
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Jan 2nd, 2010
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theogre Member Posts: 32520 From: USA Registered: Mar 99
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Site is down. Probably someone didn't pay the bill. Need to use PIP for that reason. If PIP can't handle it (Size problem) there is ways.... If he does fix it then don't know. Copyright mean he own them. I have the pictures IF he want them. See if he PM or Email. ------------------ Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. (Jurassic Park)
The Ogre's Fiero Cave (It's also at the top of every forum page...)
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Jan 3rd, 2010
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theogre Member Posts: 32520 From: USA Registered: Mar 99
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Site is up.....
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Oct 26th, 2010
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AL87 Member Posts: 2578 From: Bradenton, Florida, United States Registered: Mar 2010
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are these pics re-hosted again on not?
I can't see anything but a blue outline where pics are supposed to be...
I need this so I can diy without destrying anything... my fiero's doors need to be gone through and will continue to squeak until then,,,
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Jun 20th, 2011
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BMTFIERO Member Posts: 1187 From: Beaumont, TX Registered: Dec 2007
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A "great how to" Bump
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01:25 AM
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FieroG97J Member Posts: 1473 From: Carriere, Mississippi Registered: Jul 2000
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Very helpful post. But please don't reuse that funky door. There are 100's of them in members garages here that you can use instead. I recently had 4 completely stripped out and totally rust free doors stolen by the scrap metal robbers in the area. And while they were at it they took 10 antique Cub Cadet garden tractors I had too.
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BMTFIERO Member Posts: 1187 From: Beaumont, TX Registered: Dec 2007
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| quote | Originally posted by FieroG97J:
. . . doors stolen by the scrap metal robbers in the area. . . |
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You Too !!!!
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12:52 PM
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jscott1 Member Posts: 21676 From: Houston, TX , USA Registered: Dec 2001
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| quote | Originally posted by BMTFIERO:
You Too !!!!
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Send some over my way... they can have all the scap metal they can haul out of my yard.
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01:43 PM
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Jun 21st, 2011
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FieroG97J Member Posts: 1473 From: Carriere, Mississippi Registered: Jul 2000
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Let's take up a collection to buy Fireboom a toolbox
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09:47 PM
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Aug 1st, 2011
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Robert 2 Member Posts: 2401 From: St Hubert Quebec Canada Registered: Jan 2006
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ttt
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Jan 27th, 2012
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JohnWPB Member Posts: 5222 From: West Palm Beach, Florida Registered: May 2009
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Thanks for the tutorial, a quick Google search of PFF turned it up, and helped me out today!
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11:19 PM
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