I rarely get help from friends to work on my car. Which makes it tough when I have to do things like hang doors. What's the best way to do this? So far I've come up with the door hanger from Eastwood. Also. I'm guessing the hinge should not have any play rattling it up and down right? I'm guessing that's a given. And I have that on my left door. I searched for this stuff and didn't find anything on this stuff on here. Might be doing this stuff wrong.
Can you hang the doors from the rafters in the shed with a ratchet tie down. The hillbilly method worked for me on big coupe doors.
I use a floor jack. I suppose that a cherry picker would work on anything but a hard top door. Perhaps a combination of the two? Anyway I usually use a floor jack.
I have a manual scissor type motor cycle jack just put some carpet on the jack if it's a painted door. Then again i've been doing this for over forty years.
I have a old office chair and has the ram to adjust the height and use it to hold the door in place and use the floor jack and a wrapped block of wood under the rear edge of the door for moving it up or down for alignment. HRP
Tedly Scooter jack what good idea. I got one that I use all the time for bikes, the other day the missus mentioned that it may make a good transmission jack ( her shoulders are not what they used to be) but I never thought about doing doors with it.
Strong hands and good shoulders. All the jack does is hold it at the desired height while you horse it into place. With a little practice it is really a lot easier than it sounds.
No you won't just don't let it intimidate you. Even on a bad day you can outsmart a car door. LOL Play with it a little before you try to hang it, then once you figure out the balance go for it. You'll do fine.
Hot Rod Primer and I use the same device- a padded office chair that adjusts for height. 44+ years of body work and this is the best way I've come up with.
Just a week ago I used mine as a trans jack while changing the automatic in my old coupe. Works great.
heres what I did with a wheel rim a bit of tube and some fabbed angle.... the angle bits are adjustable and deep enough to have either at top of window or in the lower door chanel...holds door vertical or horizontal and is very stable and not does not need to be centred for balance....works for me cheers joe
Milk crate and some wood blocks to get it to height. Hold it steady with your outside hand and start a bolt or two with the other.
It's called the "5 percent rule " ... just got to be 5 percent smarter than the object you're working on!
I've been using a floor jack also, for close to 40 years. I take a 2x6 and saw a notch in it lengthwise, and nail a couple pieces of scrap on it to keep it on the floor jack. An old Hein-Werner full size 1 1/2 ton floor jack.
This X2.... never fails as well. Well, some people don't drink so I have soda, ice tea, etc around. I also spring for lunch.
I keep looking at those old shop bumper jacks that lift a rig by the bumper and are now obsolete for the most part would work good for holding doors in place after a person added some brackets to hold the door.
Yep good idea, and if you had a bottle jack and some steel it wouldn't be hard to make one if you couldn't find an old one.
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