Re: Help getting doors off a Cherokee

Bill Sands wrote:

> 
> A neighbor is junking his 1994 Cherokee S****t 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?

I pulled a couple of doors from a junker a while back and had the same
issue
with those !@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Torx heads.  Two things (maybe 3) worked for me.  First,
tow of the stubborn ones yielded when I wedged a board behind the socket
to
keep it FIRMLY in the star socket - it wants to walk out when you really
climb on it - but buying a quality bit to replace the first one may have
had something to do with it as well.  The only solution I found for the
last one (of course it was the hardest to reach) was a good set of vice
grips - ten inch size with good sharp teeth.  Those Torx heads are stand
proud enough to get a vice grip on once but if it slips your done so get
them on, release and tighten just a bit and reclamp in the same notches.

I was ready to try my last resort but I had left the grinding wheel for my
****table drill at home.  My first stop after leaving the junk yard was at 
a parts house for some grade 5 hex head bolts to replace those suckers!  I
lost a fair amount of skin getting 2 doors off.

-- 
Will Honea

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