Door removal

[JRod81Cherokee]

Does anyone have pics and description of making your doors removable?
We have a ‘81 Cherokee and would like to be able to remove the doors sometimes.
TIA

[dodgerammit]

Ummm. They can be removed, but not easily. And they're HEAAAAVY! Reinstalling and aligning them every time would be a PITA.

I now have a YJ Wrangler for that feature. Even then, I still prefer half-doors.

I'll keep my SJ with doors and enjoy cruising with windows down.

[sierrablue]

As far as weight goes, I mean the weight doesn't bother me too much. I can move the doors and tailgate from an '89 (power everything) by myself, and to install them you just need somebody to tighten the bolts down and help aim it into the body to install them.

The way the rear hinge is set up I would think you could put a removable pin in pretty easily and be done with it. The fronts you would have to do some modification to--you'd have to change them to have the pin in the middle, and then I'm not sure they'd be able to open very far w/o hitting the fender. The rear can have the hinge in the middle because the b-pillar is set in, so the outer shell of the door won't hit it.

Speaking of the pillars, I wouldn't trust a FSJ without the doors on it to have any body strength, unless you have a cage. I know people have turned them into convertibles and such, but at least with those the pillars still get SOME support from the doors and such. Maybe I'm more sensitive about this since I rolled mine, but I would not trust it. With the doors they're barely strong; without they would have like nothing. And maybe you're not driving it fast enough or anywhere to worry about rolling it, but stuff happens. I was going 65 mph in a straight line, when a gust of wind kicked it out on the ice. If somebody pulls out in front of you and you catch the ditch wrong, stuff can happen and it ain't always pretty.

I would stick with keeping the windows down.