Changing door hinges or pins? Check out this door cradle I made

[TR Custom Parts]

Had to change the worn out door hinge pins on my wife's 98 Jimmy this weekend. Not wanting to depend on someone else to help me out, I made up this door cradle so I could do it myself. Figured I would share so if you wanted to do your doors on a TR you can make one too.

What's needed. Floor jack, 2x6, two milk crates, pipe insulation, screws and fender washers.

I took the jack pad off my jack and replaced it with a transmission removal pad I had. Attached a 2x6 that I had laying around to the trans pad. Took the milk crates and cut them to fit the doors with a jigsaw. Screwed them to the 2x6 using fender washers. Put split pipe insulation on the cutout and a piece along the bottom of the door. Just jack up the cradle assembly under the door and go to it.

This worked out great as I have a bad back and now I could do the job myself without any effort and the door was not scratched or chipped from trying to fit it by hand.

 

[Jerryl]

............. This worked out great as I have a bad back and now I could do the job myself without any effort and the door was not scratched or chipped from trying to fit it by hand.

I know what you mean about the back thing. That is fantastic.
I use my motorcycle jack for all kinds of stuff.

 

[Brocks GN]

Nice little tool there...I will keep that in mind when changing out my door hinges

 

[pm87tb]

Thats not a bad idea thanks for sharing.. :smile:

 

[S1NISTER 87GN]

Better hope the milk crate police do'nt catch ya!

 

[lowride87regal]

thats cool

 

[TR Custom Parts]

All indentifying marks have been removed from the crates to protect the guilty. Patent pending on this device BTW. :biggrin:

 

[pacecarta]

the right tool is cheap enough , you could just buy one
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=40386

 

[TR Custom Parts]

And I thought I would make millions with this idea and would be able to get out of the Buick business. :biggrin: :biggrin: Price was right!

 

[pacecarta]

glad it worked out for you , stinks taking doors off with one person and if it slips it could get costly ,

the harbor freight one is cheap enough and you could loan it out on weekends for a small fee and quickly pay it self off ,

 

[fitz3820]

I like Mark's $3 solution - the stuff I have seen from harbor freight is junk and I don't need another tool taking up room in my garage.

 

[SS_Sean]

I love redneck engineering. That's pretty ingenious, right there!

 

[TR Custom Parts]

I love redneck engineering. That's pretty ingenious, right there!

I prefer the saying Yankee engineering better than redneck. :biggrin: