Like BeeJay's Door Mod

[73c34me]

Apologies for the miss-spelled name in title; I can't edit that. A couple of pics did upload under pmy photos
Inspired by BeeJay's efforts to lighten his door(s), I follow his direction. Mine is a 73. I stripped the paint off the door Sat. so I did not have to be too careful. Removed window glass, cut a an opening (smaller than B.J.s) Threw the door into a snow bank & used my torches to cut the crash bar out of its home. door wt. without side glass, post surgery was 47 lbs. on my bathroom scale. The crash bar & removed pieces of inner door frame wt. was 10-11 lbs. on my bathroom scale. No heat issues from the torch, as there was no paint to protect & the snow made a nice heat sync on the outside of the door skin. I did throw some snow inside the door to cool this as well. I have tried to load pics. but keep getting a Too Large message, even tho I resized them smaller than the max. pixel size. Not sure I would do this if I was not going to paint the car, but since I am, I did!

 

[BBShark]

I like the snow bank heat sink! I'll have to remember that.

 

[Bee Jay]

Apologies for the miss-spelled name in title; I can't edit that. A couple of pics did upload under pmy photos
Inspired by BeeJay's efforts to lighten his door(s), I follow his direction. Mine is a 73. I stripped the paint off the door Sat. so I did not have to be too careful. Removed window glass, cut a an opening (smaller than B.J.s) Threw the door into a snow bank & used my torches to cut the crash bar out of its home. door wt. without side glass, post surgery was 47 lbs. on my bathroom scale. The crash bar & removed pieces of inner door frame wt. was 10-11 lbs. on my bathroom scale. No heat issues from the torch, as there was no paint to protect & the snow made a nice heat sync on the outside of the door skin. I did throw some snow inside the door to cool this as well. I have tried to load pics. but keep getting a Too Large message, even tho I resized them smaller than the max. pixel size. Not sure I would do this if I was not going to paint the car, but since I am, I did!

I would love to see the before and after pictures too. Photobucket is my friend. 11lbs is great. I think I saved a couple more when I had to replace the passenger side window. The replacement window was way thinner. It's louder too. I keep checking to make sure it's all the way up, cause it sounds like it is cracked open just a bit. I also drilled some large holes in the heavy iron support lifts ala Norval Wilhelm. What's snow?
Bee Jay

 

[73c34me]

before & after pics

Photos are available. Go to my photos from the original posting.

Apologies for the miss-spelled name in title; I can't edit that. A couple of pics did upload under pmy photos
Inspired by BeeJay's efforts to lighten his door(s), I follow his direction. Mine is a 73. I stripped the paint off the door Sat. so I did not have to be too careful. Removed window glass, cut a an opening (smaller than B.J.s) Threw the door into a snow bank & used my torches to cut the crash bar out of its home. door wt. without side glass, post surgery was 47 lbs. on my bathroom scale. The crash bar & removed pieces of inner door frame wt. was 10-11 lbs. on my bathroom scale. No heat issues from the torch, as there was no paint to protect & the snow made a nice heat sync on the outside of the door skin. I did throw some snow inside the door to cool this as well. I have tried to load pics. but keep getting a Too Large message, even tho I resized them smaller than the max. pixel size. Not sure I would do this if I was not going to paint the car, but since I am, I did!

I would love to see the before and after pictures too. Photobucket is my friend. 11lbs is great. I think I saved a couple more when I had to replace the passenger side window. The replacement window was way thinner. It's louder too. I keep checking to make sure it's all the way up, cause it sounds like it is cracked open just a bit. I also drilled some large holes in the heavy iron support lifts ala Norval Wilhelm. What's snow?
Bee Jay

 

[69427]

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I haven't had my (manual window) doors apart in several years so I'm unfamiliar with the internal details these days. Is there anything that would prevent making the window cross bars in aluminum (other than the extra work of pulling the old bars out)?