Installing these Jeep JK half doors is easy, requiring only simple tools and an hour of your time.
The folks from the CJ Off-Road on YouTube recently put together a great DIY video showing how easy it is to install Rugged Ridge half doors on your Jeep Wrangler JK. Matt Mohl states that it takes an hour, but that seems like a high-end estimate for anyone with any mechanical experience.
Prepping the New Doors
The first step is to take the new half doors and install the hardware needed to attach them to your Wrangler. The doors come with factory-style hinges and pliable grab handles, but you have to install them yourself, so that is how the install begins.
The host shows us how to easily install the door-side of the hinges before flipping the power-coated door over to bolt in the grab handles.
Next, Mohl removes the stock side mirrors from the Jeep, bolting them onto the new half doors. The doors do not come with mirrors, so you have to re-use the factory mirrors or buy new ones. Fortunately, they come off of the stock doors easily and bolt up to the new doors just as easily.
Once the mirrors, grab handles and hinges have been installed, it is time to hang the doors.
Installing the Doors
After lifting the stock doors off of the hinge pins, the new half doors simply slide right into place. To adjust the fitment of the new doors in the door frame, you loosen the hinge bolts with the door closed and move the door around to achieve the desired gaps.
After that, you make sure that the doors open, close and latch as they should and you are done. Simple tools and an hour of your time and you have half doors on your JK Wrangler Unlimited.
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