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Originally Posted by skorpioskorpio
Well, ladylike entry into a 4x4 is probably not going to happen no matter what you do, especially if your wife is 5 foot nothing, but I respect your attempt.
I do think though that maybe the approach is a full door and a cutaway door with an opening shaped more like a Jeep or the Scout pic I attached, and just have them as lift off interchangable. I know it means you always have to store a set of doors, but when you run in door off, roof off mode you still retain the structure of the body somewhat and you don't have to figure out how to rig up seperate latching mechanisms for half doors vs full doors because you have full door jambs either way. You could leave enough door structure to mount mirrors with no door top of any sort you have no place to mount a mirror unless you mount it on the edge of the fender and then it becomes unusable when you have a full door with vent glass frame unless you go way forward so you are looking at the mirrors through the windshield.
The only thing it doesn't address is the step issue, but that is an easy problem to solve without getting the door involved, 4x4 steps are not a rare feature.
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I like your idea of just dropping the bottom section of the door in from the top. VT Blazer once had a thread about 30 second door removal, basically just allow the pins to be undersized and remove easily...
Nope, not doing any cutaway door sections, sorry. Hadn t thought about mirrors though, Pa. only requires an interior mirror. Speaking of which, OnStar sells an after maket kit for 100.00, only requires ignition lead and 12v. Next is Serius XM
My plan to get the wifey in the 4X4, have her face me, her back against the passenger seat. If she ll give a little jump, and i grab her around the waist and lift at the same time, she should end up in the seat. If not, could end up one of those Viagra moments you see on TV
Finally installed my boxes under the dash, wires work much better aiming up into the dash
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