Sadistic Iron Werks Single Hinge Suicide Door Kit!!!

Agreed completely as stated above:

"Your weld is only as strong as the material you are welding"

That is the case, but like explained above, by spreading the load over a greater area you can make sheetmetal stronger. By no means is that setup hack, its very cleanly done and we gotta remember it is SHOWTRUCK. I would be more worried about the door side tweaking back and fourth.

No offense dev but just because it was published in minitruckin doesn't mean it's gold. I've seen a few hack jobs in there. I've also seen the stories on what doesn't get shot because of a certain thing or to.

Edit: also me personally I would never run a single hinge considering the physics. First thing that comes to my head is how the door could move up and down more freely other than the traditional 2 hinge setup that has more equal proportion. Again I'm no pro fabricator or trying to stir shit.

guys guys chill out if you like the kit you like it if you dont you dont no bodys forcing you to buy it or use it. just differnt opinnions on each side of the fight so try not to start any thing between every body because this site is for friends, learn things and meet new people.....................

There not fighting. There just weighing the pros and cons of the kit.






-justin

i agree with justin. it isn't a fight. if someone came on here that wanted suicide doors but knows nothing about them and saw this, they'd be able to make a better choice as to if this is the application they want/need. publicly weighing out both sides helps others learn.

see... someone else says almost exactly what i said and its agreed to.

No less, to me... that looks like a botched and pieced together install. Looks to me like they found some scrap metal and decided to use it as "hinge bracing". with it being a single hing, the stress is going to be on all 4 sides of that tubing. when its more in a closed position, it will be twisting front/back of the truck, when its open 90* its twisting side/side to the truck. that hinge would have to be plated and braced all over the place for it to last any length of time.

edit: and to support the 2 hinge idea... both open or closed, its more of a push/pull on the hinge then a twisting. alot easier to predict and prevent