MY Bedline Door Hinges
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MY Bedline Door Hinges
Following dyolfknip's writeup I started this little project last Saturday. Had to have the doors off all week, which wasn't so bad, until my wife got caught in a thunderstorm on the way home from WalMart on Friday, but that's another story
All in all it was pretty easy to do, although it would have taken half the time if I didn't have 4 doors to do and I was using a sandblaster instead of a dremel to prep. I also had to do some minor tweaking of the placement of the hinges and on both passenger side doors the door latch striker plate to get the doors to close properly.
Anyway I dropped the top down today to bake the disgusting mildew smell out of the carpet and decided to take some pictures:
I'm pretty happy with the way it came out. The texture and color of the bedliner matches my bumper almost perfectly and the texture is a pretty close match to the plastic pieces of the Jeep, at least from a distance.
All in all it was pretty easy to do, although it would have taken half the time if I didn't have 4 doors to do and I was using a sandblaster instead of a dremel to prep. I also had to do some minor tweaking of the placement of the hinges and on both passenger side doors the door latch striker plate to get the doors to close properly.
Anyway I dropped the top down today to bake the disgusting mildew smell out of the carpet and decided to take some pictures:
I'm pretty happy with the way it came out. The texture and color of the bedliner matches my bumper almost perfectly and the texture is a pretty close match to the plastic pieces of the Jeep, at least from a distance.
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i just did mine as well, for the inside of the door hinges I should have done what you did and left the bolts body color...i sprayed them in bedliner and ended up stripping it off them putting them back on so now Ive gotta cover them in something else. Nice job though!
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Looks great. Every time someone else posts this mod I get closer to doing it my self!!!
How has everyone been keeping the paint on the outside bolts? You'd think it would flake out when you torque the allen bolts...
How has everyone been keeping the paint on the outside bolts? You'd think it would flake out when you torque the allen bolts...
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May I ask exactly what kind of bedliner you guys seem to be using to do these hinges/grilles, etc? I'm sure I've seen bedliner in a can before, but all I can seem to get through my distributors is the type of bedliner you paint on?
I considered buying the Rugged Ridge hinge covers to achieve this kind of look, but it would cost like $150 to do all the hinges on my 2dr.
Anyhow, awesome results and I love the look!
I considered buying the Rugged Ridge hinge covers to achieve this kind of look, but it would cost like $150 to do all the hinges on my 2dr.
Anyhow, awesome results and I love the look!
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May I ask exactly what kind of bedliner you guys seem to be using to do these hinges/grilles, etc? I'm sure I've seen bedliner in a can before, but all I can seem to get through my distributors is the type of bedliner you paint on?
I considered buying the Rugged Ridge hinge covers to achieve this kind of look, but it would cost like $150 to do all the hinges on my 2dr.
Anyhow, awesome results and I love the look!
I considered buying the Rugged Ridge hinge covers to achieve this kind of look, but it would cost like $150 to do all the hinges on my 2dr.
Anyhow, awesome results and I love the look!
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May I ask exactly what kind of bedliner you guys seem to be using to do these hinges/grilles, etc? I'm sure I've seen bedliner in a can before, but all I can seem to get through my distributors is the type of bedliner you paint on?
I considered buying the Rugged Ridge hinge covers to achieve this kind of look, but it would cost like $150 to do all the hinges on my 2dr.
Anyhow, awesome results and I love the look!
I considered buying the Rugged Ridge hinge covers to achieve this kind of look, but it would cost like $150 to do all the hinges on my 2dr.
Anyhow, awesome results and I love the look!
i just did mine as well, for the inside of the door hinges I should have done what you did and left the bolts body color...i sprayed them in bedliner and ended up stripping it off them putting them back on so now Ive gotta cover them in something else. Nice job though!
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"As you could see I bedlined the outside torx bolts. I didn't even bother sanding them down, I just sprayed right over top of the clear coat and factory paint. Surprisingly enough with a lot of care I was able to torque down almost all of the bolts w/o removing any bedliner. There are 2 or 3 that if you look at from 1 foot or less away you can see a few specks of red, but nothing worth trying to touch up."
Very cool. I wonder how detonator yellow bolts would look with black hinges... When you removed the red bolts did the allen wrench mess up the factory finish?
Very cool. I wonder how detonator yellow bolts would look with black hinges... When you removed the red bolts did the allen wrench mess up the factory finish?