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Title: Did a company make diamond plate door panels?
Post by: kozaz on March 25, 2008, 07:53:32 AM

For 93 Tracker

I could have sworn I saw diamond plate door panels about a year ago, does anybody know which company made them?


Thanks!

Ryan

Title: Re: Did a company make diamond plate door panels?
Post by: pepatt on March 25, 2008, 08:33:07 AM

LowRange Offroad carries them for the Samurai, but they don't list any for the Tracker. I would contact them and see if they have them.

http://www.lowrangeoffroad.com/sambody.htm

Better yet, get a sheet of DP and use the stock panel for a template. It's just a flat panel!

Title: Re: Did a company make diamond plate door panels?
Post by: Rhinoman on March 26, 2008, 05:59:32 AM

Thods diamond plate panels can rip the skin off your elbows.

Title: Re: Did a company make diamond plate door panels?
Post by: beercheck on March 26, 2008, 07:32:31 AM

Quote from: Rhinoman on March 26, 2008, 05:59:32 AM

Thods diamond plate panels can rip the skin off your elbows.

Having fried my fingers on hot metal seatbelt and ignition hardware, be sure to use plenty of PAM cooking spray in the summer.    You don't want to stick.

Title: Re: Did a company make diamond plate door panels?
Post by: ROLLOVR on March 26, 2008, 03:19:51 PM

Kozaz,

I think Aftermarket 4x4 will make you a set. Try this link and scroll to the bottom of the page.

http://members.cox.net/aftermarket4x4/off_side.html

Title: Re: Did a company make diamond plate door panels?
Post by: kozaz on March 26, 2008, 05:29:25 PM

Hot panels is something I really did not think of.  But even the stock vynil door panels are surrounded by metal.  The only thing that may touch the panels is your bare knee.  Your arm will touch the stock door metal before the panel itself, so hot door window sills is always going to be a problem regardless if the panels are vynil or metal.

As for cutting my own, I must be doing something wrong.  I cut some diamond plate for the area where the front seat belts attach just above the seats.  I tried different speeds, and various types of blades (# of Teeth), and the jigsaw kept kicking and bending the soft aluminum diamond plate.

I would like to have nice straight cuts.  I could use my grinder with a cutting wheel, but I know straight is not what I do well.  So without floor shears, I don't think it's going to happen. 

Thanks for the link to Aftermarket 4x4, I will have to email him.

Ryan

Title: Re: Did a company make diamond plate door panels?
Post by: pepatt on March 26, 2008, 08:25:34 PM

Quote from: kozaz on March 26, 2008, 05:29:25 PM

As for cutting my own, I must be doing something wrong.  I cut some diamond plate for the area where the front seat belts attach just above the seats.  I tried different speeds, and various types of blades (# of Teeth), and the jigsaw kept kicking and bending the soft aluminum diamond plate.

In case you want to try again:
Use a fine-tooth blade, medium speed. Keep an oil can nearby and put a drop or two on the blade every few seconds to keep things cool and from binding. You can clamp a straight-edge to your work piece (clamp to the good side not the waste side). If your saw drifts you can run a belt sander along the edge to take down the high spot, then lightly belt sand all edges (fine grit) to polish it all up.

Or if you have $40K sitting around buy a laser cutter!  :P

Title: Re: Did a company make diamond plate door panels?
Post by: sanjuansheriff on March 27, 2008, 01:50:33 AM

Try getting access to a band saw... the blade travels in one direction (down), you could also use a table saw for the cutting of aluminum.

Dennis

Title: Re: Did a company make diamond plate door panels?
Post by: Fasta76 on March 28, 2008, 05:10:09 AM

ANything you can cut wood with you can cut Checker plate! I just cut all my stuff with a jig saw with a wood blade! I was going to take it to my local shop to have cut but the told me to not waste my $ when i could do it myself. Just make sure to cut it upside down! so you dont mark up the nice side. and so the foot of the saw will move nicer!