Over a year ago I purchased a pair of Fiberglass doors from John Temple. I've had them sitting in my basement every since and have finally gotten around to installing them.
I decided to use the factory latch and external door handle but everything else is new. The hinges are pin type that allow for the doors to be lifted off for easy removal, the interior handle is just a simple lever and the windows will be lexan.
When the group purchase for these doors was discussed they were billed as pretty much a bolt on mod, that could not be further from the truth. They are "replica" doors and not just a fiberglass box the way some doors are, and they have aluminum backing plates epoxied into the inside for hinge support and to reinforce the latch area but all the openings and mounting holes need to be cut out, drilled and fitted.
I began by fitting the factory latch. There was an outline of the stock latch location in the fiberglass shell so I had an idea of where they were mounted but in order to be exact I made a template out of masking tape on the stock door and transferred it to the fiberglass so I was exact. The biggest issue with fitting the latch was that the stock door is about 1/16" think and the fiberglass door is more like 1/2" thick. After some back a fourth things worked out ok.
Next I fit the lever type interior latch handle. Pretty simple lever with a little backing plate and rod and a couple of ball ends.
I decided to order new exterior handles so I have to wait for those to arrive and moved on to the hinges. The hinges are just simple pins mounted on 3/4" chromoly tubes and plates with a hole in them for the pin that mount on the door.
I decided to use the factory latch and external door handle but everything else is new. The hinges are pin type that allow for the doors to be lifted off for easy removal, the interior handle is just a simple lever and the windows will be lexan.
When the group purchase for these doors was discussed they were billed as pretty much a bolt on mod, that could not be further from the truth. They are "replica" doors and not just a fiberglass box the way some doors are, and they have aluminum backing plates epoxied into the inside for hinge support and to reinforce the latch area but all the openings and mounting holes need to be cut out, drilled and fitted.
I began by fitting the factory latch. There was an outline of the stock latch location in the fiberglass shell so I had an idea of where they were mounted but in order to be exact I made a template out of masking tape on the stock door and transferred it to the fiberglass so I was exact. The biggest issue with fitting the latch was that the stock door is about 1/16" think and the fiberglass door is more like 1/2" thick. After some back a fourth things worked out ok.
Next I fit the lever type interior latch handle. Pretty simple lever with a little backing plate and rod and a couple of ball ends.
I decided to order new exterior handles so I have to wait for those to arrive and moved on to the hinges. The hinges are just simple pins mounted on 3/4" chromoly tubes and plates with a hole in them for the pin that mount on the door.