I re did my door panels a while back and never posted pictures, this is more of a temparary fix until I figure out what I want to do, The darker grey cloth matches my headliner. Let me know what you think.



Also as a side note check out my use of the left over wheel paint from my wheel restore, and some left over aluminium blast from my trucks engine. I painted my computer, do not try this at home unless u are willing to take apart everything, including the monitor.

 

Nice Job...looks great

Stan

 

Did you take off the weather strip peices? Those nuts are fun HuH!

 

yea whats up with that do they make a special tool for it? I put them on in reverse so I can use a standard socket in the future.

 

Looks good man!

 

When I did my door panels I could not find the tool so I tried to put one nut on like factory with pliers and SNAP! (****, those weatherstrips are $80) put the rest of the nuts on backwards. Although, the weatherstrip and door panel never seemed to line up right and don't even think about taking the nuts off. SNAP!

Took me 2 years to find out where to get the tool. Snap-On is the only one in the U.S. that carries the tool as far as I know. The tool is 1/4 drive and has an hex bit shape with a hole in the middle. If you want the part number it's S6103A , check the link. Tool costs about 25 bucks.

http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/pro.a...e=snapon-store

 

Wow! Thanks man. I didn't even know that there was a tool made for those stupid nuts. Thanks for the heads up. I think I will be ordering one soon By the way, could you post a pic of the tool cause the link you gave for the tool doesn't have a pic. Thanks.

 

I ended up breaking some off also. I'll tell you what I did since I don't have the cash to fork out for new window sills right now...

I just took a drill (dont even remember what size, but pretty small bit) and drilled holes along the sill, through the door panel AND sill, then took small black zip ties and 'stitched' it up all the way and cut the excess zip tie end off, brought it all up tight and straight-like, and it worked for me!

Just an idea for an easy fix.

 

yea I broke 2 off when I did it, I didn't even think about putting a nut in it and then a socket, lol, but I did it with needle nose and alot of paticence. I will order one of those tools when I get new peices,

 

Looks just like the tool two pics down.

 

McMaster-Carr has something that should do the trick for 2 bucks and change. Check out www.mccmaster.com and do a search for "Tamper-resistant hex bits"

Looks like this:

 

That looks like it would work but the link is http://www.mcmaster.com/ and you would need a 3/8 or pt# 7257A31 I think the snapon tool is a little over kill

 

I actually bought the 5/16 and the 3/8 bits from McMaster, the 5/16 fits in the speed nuts in my panel, but the center hole was too small to go over the plastic stud. So I had to drill it out a bit, but works good now. The Snap-on piece is built for the purpose, but I'd still rather pay <3 bucks and spend 5 mins fabbing the bit to work than pay 27 bucks

Just thought I'd update that the McMaster bit requires a bit of modification, if anyone's considering it.

 

Just made my order today