All hinges on my sons LJ are chrome, they look pretty good
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| Author: | paulv [ Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Stainless Door and Tailgate Hinges? |
Would like to find some replacement Door and Tailgate hinges. Stainless would be nice. These people make billet aluminium ones: http://www.zuk-n-ovations.com/pages/bod ... inges.html However they are in the US of A, and they are the removable type... Not sure how our local department of transport would view obviously non standard removable hinges. Anyone know where nice, solid stainless replacements might be found? |
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| Author: | lump_a_charcoal [ Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stainless Door and Tailgate Hinges? |
Why stainless? It is often not as strong as regular steel... |
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| Author: | paulv [ Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stainless Door and Tailgate Hinges? |
Stainless looks nice polished! Not that fussed about breaking the hinge. Would imagine it would be more likely you would pull out the fasteners. It is only a door after all. Or a tailgate. Guess it will be a moot point if Stainless ones do not exist, and cannot be found... |
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| Author: | Saam [ Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stainless Door and Tailgate Hinges? |
you'd kill anything that is not as strong as the standard hinges for sure, even the standard ones flog out, i am in the process of machining new High tensile pins for mine at the moment (they have heaps of play) |
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| Author: | Zook_Fan [ Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stainless Door and Tailgate Hinges? |
pull yours off, strip the paint off them and nickel plate them. very similar finish and a lot cheaper. |
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| Author: | BJPK [ Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:51 pm ] |
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have thought about this myself. would it be possible to chrome the originals? may just flake off though. |
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| Author: | Zook_Fan [ Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stainless Door and Tailgate Hinges? |
you could chrome it but that is expensive and yes i believe that after a while it would flake off. nickel is a lot cheaper and you can buy kits to do it yourself using a slow cooker and a battery charger for a decent price and you can do heaps of stuff with it |
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| Author: | hardknocks [ Fri Jul 24, 2009 2:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stainless Door and Tailgate Hinges? |
Zook_Fan wrote: you could chrome it but that is expensive and yes i believe that after a while it would flake off. nickel is a lot cheaper and you can buy kits to do it yourself using a slow cooker and a battery charger for a decent price and you can do heaps of stuff with it I'm interested in plating kit! Where would I get one ??
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| Author: | paulv [ Fri Jul 24, 2009 2:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stainless Door and Tailgate Hinges? |
Guess you would have to buy new ones and plate them, rather than try and plate the 14 year old ones that are on the car. New Tailgate hinges are 16.50 per hinge here: http://www.suzistore.com.au/shopexd.asp?id=982&bc=no + Chrome plating which would be 70 + per hinge. Hmmm. the Billet Aluminium ones from the US arn't looking so bad. Wonder what the legalities of removeable hinges are. Wonder what the durability of a billet Aluminum hinge is. |
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| Author: | ball [ Fri Jul 24, 2009 2:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stainless Door and Tailgate Hinges? |
lump_a_charcoal wrote: Why stainless? It is often not as strong as regular steel...
If you use the correct grade of stainless then you would end up with a hinge stronger than mild steel. |
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| Author: | Fatzook [ Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stainless Door and Tailgate Hinges? |
ball wrote: lump_a_charcoal wrote: Why stainless? It is often not as strong as regular steel... If you use the correct grade of stainless then you would end up with a hinge stronger than mild steel. I disagree. I work with various grades of stainless on a daily basis, and the one thing I have noticed is that any structure that is exposed to movement and vibration with eventually stress and crack. Go the ally, or just keep the factory ones. Peter |
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| Author: | ball [ Fri Jul 24, 2009 6:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stainless Door and Tailgate Hinges? |
Fatzook wrote: ball wrote: lump_a_charcoal wrote: Why stainless? It is often not as strong as regular steel... If you use the correct grade of stainless then you would end up with a hinge stronger than mild steel. I disagree. I work with various grades of stainless on a daily basis, and the one thing I have noticed is that any structure that is exposed to movement and vibration with eventually stress and crack. Go the ally, or just keep the factory ones. Peter You will get that with mild steel to an extent as well. I used to make some rather expensive high end machine parts and the designer that sent us the drawings would specify the grade of material to use. It was often grades of stainless that were chosen due to having more desirable properties than mild steel. Just out of curiosity what grades of stainless are you using ? |
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| Author: | 2stroker [ Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stainless Door and Tailgate Hinges? |
All hinges on my sons LJ are chrome, they look pretty good
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| Author: | paulv [ Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stainless Door and Tailgate Hinges? |
2stroker wrote: All hinges on my sons LJ are chrome, they look pretty good
They do look good! Did you chrome the originals? or buy new ones? How much did the Chroming set you back? Did you get the heads of the fasteners chromed as well? |
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| Author: | mrcurlywhirly [ Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stainless Door and Tailgate Hinges? |
How about switching to stainless cup head allen bolts? I saw somebody elses Sierra with that mod, looked very flash. I was thinking of switching mine over when i can finally get the friggin original bolts out... they need some serious impacting to remove. |
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| Author: | paulv [ Fri Jul 31, 2009 1:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stainless Door and Tailgate Hinges? |
Yep the cap head would looks better than painted phillips head for sure. |
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| Author: | paulv [ Fri Jul 31, 2009 4:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stainless Door and Tailgate Hinges? |
Have emailed these people: ZUK-N-OVATIONS to inquire as to if they ship their billet hinges to Australia... And if they do a billet aluminum tailgate hinge. |
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| Author: | paulv [ Fri Aug 07, 2009 3:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stainless Door and Tailgate Hinges? |
So..ZUK-N-OVATIONS definitely ship to Australia. However no tailgate hinge. Yet. |
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| Author: | mrcurlywhirly [ Fri Aug 07, 2009 12:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stainless Door and Tailgate Hinges? |
...wierd, if you were doing flash aluminium on the doors you would surely be wanting to match up the tailgate too. |
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| Author: | paulv [ Fri Aug 07, 2009 9:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stainless Door and Tailgate Hinges? |
Well, apparently they are working on it. In their words "At this time we do not have any billet hinges for the rear tailgate but hope to some time in the future." |
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