Adding grease fitting to JK rear door ?

Pastor Scott said:

Was wondering if it were possible to drill and tap a hole for grease fittings on rear gate.
With all the weight of the spare could this help and could it be done ??

thanks
Just and IDEA

Ps Scott

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kyle521 said:

I think there might be an option for replacing just part of the stock hinge with a greasable fitting, but I'm not sure. I just went with new greasable hinges after mine wore out. It stopped my tailgate from rattling, Ive had them for less than a year and work fine, grease fittings are easy to get to.

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jeepwolley said:

One Day im gonna buy a teraflex carrier, but for now this does the job....

Took stock pin out, welded a sleeve and bolt...

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jeeeep said:

what hinges did you get?

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TennJK said:

I think you should do some research on the teraflex carrier. You may want to change your mind when you see how many people are having problems with them breaking and cracking. Just my 2 cents.

Edit: Here's a link to one of the forums about it. Worth the read..
http://wayalife.com/showthread.php?t=34782

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jeepwolley said:

Thanks for the heads up!

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hinrichs said:

Seems like you basically made a set of those "heavy duty hinges". Nice mod. I was just going to say someone that could weld and figure out the bolt part could make a set of those hinges for way less than 150 that they are selling for.

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jeepwolley said:

Thanks ! The only issue is that you can't reinstall the plastic cover.

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JKbrick said:

What if you sleeved it and used a bolt with a zerk on the bolt head?

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