well i was half way thur removing my doors and all i had left to do was to cut the pin in the hing and my dremel breaks =(. noless at 11 at nite so everything is closed .so i went to thinking on taking out the torx bolts and noless all but 1 comes out n possibly is striped which sux. so not sure what the best thing to do now is any ideas????????????????

also not sure if this belongs in this thread or not . so if needed to move move plz ty

 

I ended up breaking one torx bit on my driver's side, and used a grinder/cut-off wheel to take the head off of one on the passenger side (to help adjust the door gaps).

 

as odd as this may sound...im in your exact same position! i was cutting my hinges today and i got through one and still couldn't bang it off the pin. then the dremel totally stopped working-tried to fix it;nope no cigar. and i misplaced(lost) my torx haed last night and im going insane trying to find it! i think im going to go get a new bit tomorrow and get the bolts off. it just so finicky to get all the way through the hinge and be able to tell if its cut all the way!!!

 

I moved the thread. Hopefully get more hits here. Not sure its the best yet. If you don't get enough help here, Ill move it to chat.

 

thank you jake. and cherokee what did u wind up doing after u cut the head off ??
and pepperson i hear ya im totally pissed bc i was gonna be happy to have my doors off then got screwed literally lol but i pretty sure my bottom hing torx is prob stripped so not sure what to do i wanna take it off so i can re adjust the hing a lil bc it moved while i took a hammer and a n chisel and started to pound away got thru alot but got tired n said f@#$ it lol . door closed good just a fraction off maybe a hair or so

 

yea i was so mad when the dremel broke. i just wanted to go ride. im like, well, of course of all times this is a great one for it to break haha. if its stripped id use a sawzall and cut a notch in the head and use a screwdriver if you can, or shave a side of the head flat and get some vice grips on it.

JakeWI-the jeep is so sick man! i love riding in this thing. did you put on the leaf spring/axle wedges?

 

stripped my torx takin mine off the other day just used a small pair of vise grips and plenty of wd40.time consuming but it worked.

 

hmmmmm shaving it down sounds like a plan lol and olmiakkc i was thinkin vise grips lol did it work for u ???

 

use alot of heat and it WILL come out. if its stripped use vice grips or a small set of channel locks

 

ya deff gonna try that prob in a lil bit since i dont sleep =)

 

I had trouble with getting my torx socket in there. I had to put a ratchet wrench over the socket just to have enough room to fit the socket in there. Drivers door was not bad. Pulled bolts out of door cut bottom of hinges and than just adjusted and cut hinge pin till it went in and out like butter.

Now the passenger side sucked. Stripped one bolt so took a cut off wheel and cut the head off. Than once door was off welded a nut to the stud to pull the stud out of door. Than cut bottom of hinges off and bottom of pin. Than I had to use a pointed chisel and really beat the pin out.

When I reinstalled every thing I put regular bolts back in the hinge to the door. That way if I ever have to take hinge off again it will be much easier to fit a ratchet wrench in there.

I was kinda mad about the whole situation. I have seen so many threads on here that say just pull the torx bolts and cut bottom of hinges and your done. It was a little more time consuming and agrivating than I expected but happy with the out come in the end.

 

Well 2 of the torx bolts came out, so with the 3rd one missing the head the hinge just came off over it.. I figure 2 bolts is enough to hold it, and haven't worried about trying to get the rest of the bolt out.

 

hmmmmm interesting and well this is my dd so i dont want to worry about when i put my doors back on with 1 bolt missing and it bending the hinge or moving but i will deff try all of these ideas . i appreciate all the help you guys have giving me

 

got it off! i just MADE the angle grinder fit in there and cut all the bolt heads off, so much easier then messing with the torx bit.
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first thing I did when I got the torx bolts out was through all but one in the trash. I took that one with me and headed to the hardware store and got some hex head bolts to put in there.