Reviews for Quadratec Delrin Replacement Door Hinge Bushings for 07-24 Jeep Wrangler JK & JL 2 Door
Okay. So I bought these. Driver side was a smooth install per instructions, passenger side was a different story but not a result of the bushings. My hinge pins were thicker (even after sanding the corrosion away) than the hole in the bushing and my door hinge on the passenger side was smaller than the bushings. Again, due to my vehicle hinge pins and hinges being slightly different from driver side and passenger side. I sanded the pins and filed the hinges and still they would not fit on my passenger side. But fear not, with a few swipes of the file rasp inside the bushings and a little hand sanding on the outside of the bushings, I got them to slide in beautifully. Added some lube and BOOM! Doors that swing with extreme ease and remove with lifting pressure that couldn't push a fart. These are worth the money and effort because I know they will alleviate future problems that the OEM bushings are notorious for. A must buy.
Great alternative/upgrade over the stock application.
great product not too hard to change
Exactly what was described
Absolutely love these, made a world of difference to how my doors closed and taking them off. Taking doors off requires very little effort with smooth slide out and insertion.
Delrin is a great product, one of the few these days that will pretty much do everything it's advertised to do. It ain't cheap to buy in raw form; these from Quadretec are CNC machined and are a bargain. Another reviewer mentioned that the Delrin should be standard equipment, and I totally agree. The caveat here is that the two YJ's and the TJ I previously owned had no bushings, just the pin and knuckle. Therefore occasional cleaning and lubricating were all that were needed to keep them working perfectly.
I currently have an '09 JK that the doors had never been off of. I noticed recently that the plastic around the hinges base was shredding; time to replace. The mechanical process of replacement is very simple and straightforward, if nothing has gone wrong. The original bushings are aluminum, not steel as some of the online videos state, with a plastic sleeve for the door pin to ride on. If you recall simple high school science, dissimilar metals, like aluminum and steel, in close contact with moisture and salt (rain, puddles and road chemicals) added will result in electrolysis. This basically bonds the aluminum to the steel and no removal tool or 11/32" deep dish socket is going to tap it out.
Forget the directions if you haven't removed the doors from the body previously. My door removal was finally accomplished by means of a floor jack, a 4x4 block, a folded shop rag on the pinch weld and my 230 pound son bouncing carefully on the step bar. Probably not factory recommended.
Removing the bushings was done by first using the pointy end of the round file handle to scrape away all of the remaining plastic sleeve. Find the open seam on the aluminum bushing, then use the round file to cut away the aluminum and open the seam. Hose it down with your favorite penetrating solvent, tap it, and wait awhile. Between the supplied removal tool and pliers, you eventually get them out. Also not a factory recommendation.
Once the bushings are out you can follow the directions. Quadretec includes a set of printed directions, high quality full color on glossy stock, that may have been written by one of their product liability attorneys who moonlights writing elementary school books. That's not a knock on Quadretec, it's simply what you have to do these days. The only error I found in my direction sheet was where they say to use a T-47 Torx bit. It's actually a T-50.
The 5 stars are for the Delrin bushings. Were I able to do so, I'd rate the Chrysler engineer who came up with this bushing design as many negative stars as I could find.
Easy to install and saved my back by making the doors come off easy.
The stock inserts are thin metal and will corrode quickly. These are easy to install (though the longer you wait, the harder it will be to remove the old ones). This should be stock equipment. The old metal ones are a poor design that will corrode.
These fixed my door removal problem.
Work good, little snug taking doors off but should get better over time