SP4x4 Puma Doors

[Uncle Douglas]

If you haven't done it before, and you are working from a pile of parts (and LR diagrams) you could spend 8 hours on a door to figure it out and assemble it. The diagrams (even in Microcat or JLR Ecat) are crude at best and don't show a lot of the fit detail. It's best to just be patient, and do bits at a time.

I may still have a fair amount of photos from when I put mine together, showing various fit and finish. May post them on my profile page if I can find them.

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[WBSurfer]

If you haven't done it before, and you are working from a pile of parts (and LR diagrams) you could spend 8 hours on a door to figure it out and assemble it. The diagrams (even in Microcat or JLR Ecat) are crude at best and don't show a lot of the fit detail. It's best to just be patient, and do bits at a time.

I may still have a fair amount of photos from when I put mine together, showing various fit and finish. May post them on my profile page if I can find them.

That would be great to see pics and any further detail.

Once you get the first door completed, would you say the timing per door moving forward is reduced because of the learned process from the previous door? Or is it just so tedious that the time will always continue to be relatively the same?

 

[NPT90]

Would be great if SP4x4 would just offer a 'full door kit'. Did you email them to get this sorted?

 

[CDN38]

That would be great to see pics and any further detail.

Once you get the first door completed, would you say the timing per door moving forward is reduced because of the learned process from the previous door? Or is it just so tedious that the time will always continue to be relatively the same?

It does get a little quicker as you go along. Fitting all the plastic fillers and channels and tracks in the upper part of the door is mentally draining LOL. You are cramming the stuff in that just doesn't want to fit all that well, and all along you are thinking "I'm going to break this and then I'll be screwed." Drilling into the nice new steel doors for the screws that hold the channels in place is a bit unnerving. Once you get it down, it does get easier.

Once you are into the bottom of the door it's a little more "plug and play" but all the rods take some figuring. Then there's the "Shit clip".... a little retainer you put on the end of one of the rods to keep it in place. It's a thin little bendy piece that is tough to squeeze in, if it doesn't fit right, it goes "PING" and launches itself out of the door... and you scream "SHIT!".

 

[NPT90]

Then there's the "Shit clip".... a little retainer you put on the end of one of the rods to keep it in place. It's a thin little bendy piece that is tough to squeeze in, if it doesn't fit right, it goes "PING" and launches itself out of the door... and you scream "SHIT!".

Literally replaced my door handles the other day and woe to the 'shit clip' fucking nightmare those... ended up in the grass twice, thank god for big tool holding magnets

 

[CDN38]

Literally replaced my door handles the other day and woe to the 'shit clip' fucking nightmare those... ended up in the grass twice, thank god for big tool holding magnets

Amazing, aren't they!? Those little bastards can launch themselves a good 20 feet!

 

[Red90]

Would be great if SP4x4 would just offer a 'full door kit'. Did you email them to get this sorted?

What we need first is replacement latches for the lift up handle / roll up window doors. They sell the doors and door cards now, but there is nothing you can do with your worn out latches.

 

[NPT90]

I thought the anti-burst latches were standard?

 

[Red90]

I thought the anti-burst latches were standard?

There are basically three door styles with different latches. They are all anti-burst.

- Push button outside - Lever handle inside
- Lift up handle outside - Lever handle inside
- Lift up handle inside and out.

All parts are available for the first and last styles. For the middle style, some parts like the outside latches are NLA.

 

[NPT90]

Lift up handle outside - Lever handle inside

I had a set of these originally, kind of a weird design IIRC. Worked ok though, I could see that being harder to come by, they were only on the D90s for a few years I'd wager

 

[Red90]

Basically, they took the Series door and modified it so that it could have a wind up window. There is nothing wrong with it and the parts are reliable. It is just that after 30 years some parts of the latches wear and need replacement. They sell complete new doors, new door cards and pretty much every other part, just not the latches. It is silly to drop $2000 a door to change to the later style because a $20 part is NLA. Nevermind that the later doors stop it from looking like a real Land Rover.