Re: Help getting doors off a Cherokee

Will Honea wrote:
> 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!

No, last vehicle I had a door off of was a VW, and the impact driver did 
a great job.

I'm no fan of Torx either, they are a PITA.

Jeff DeWitt