Re: Help getting doors off a Cherokee

Jeff DeWitt wrote:

> 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?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance -
>> 
>> BS
> 
> I think you need an impact driver something like this.
> 
>
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_36882_36882
> 
> Use the right size Torx bit and whack it with a bfh and the screws
> should come loose.

Jeff, you ever try to pull one of those doors?  The damned things won't
open
far enough to get a decent wrench in there.  I wound up using a thing
socket handle and a short Torx bit with a board behind it to force it into
the head so that the slight angle wouldn't let it walk out.  Real PITA
bolt, at least the two forward ones.  I left my grinding wheel home so I
was fortunate enough to have a new vice grip with sharp teeth that grabbed
the head of the last bolt to get it out.  The ones that went back in all
had hex heads - that's what I think of Torx!
-- 
Will Honea

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