Gas struts on barn doors

Have any of you folk looked at doing the above.
I intend to mount a barn door table, and started thinking about the doors.
I need to alter the small one so that a fridge slide can pass it easily.
Then started wondering why not put a couple of gas struts on the on the doors.
Instead of just changing the bracket. Get rid of it all together and use gas struts.
Just a thought, but worth thinking about.

I just rang a place that gave me the name of a mobile service guy that does this sort of thing.
Within 10 minutes he was here looking at the job, left me with all the parts to have a play with.
While he was here he said ill gas up you bonnet struts as well.
No money has changed hands as yet.
But how the hell do you beat that for service.
And a great true blue bloke to deal with.
So in theory the 2001 patrol is about to be fitted with gas struts on the barn doors.
Ill let you know how it all goes and the costs later on.

Here is a link to a thread i posted about such a mod...


http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...the-small-door)


100% one of the best things i ever did to my Patrol , i was the first person to do this and after some real world testing, i posted it on the net.

People took my idea and started selling kits on ebay (one even used my pic)

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Originally Posted by optic

Have any of you folk looked at doing the above.
I intend to mount a barn door table, and started thinking about the doors.
I need to alter the small one so that a fridge slide can pass it easily.
Then started wondering why not put a couple of gas struts on the on the doors.
Instead of just changing the bracket. Get rid of it all together and use gas struts.
Just a thought, but worth thinking about.

I just rang a place that gave me the name of a mobile service guy that does this sort of thing.
Within 10 minutes he was here looking at the job, left me with all the parts to have a play with.
While he was here he said ill gas up you bonnet struts as well.
No money has changed hands as yet.
But how the hell do you beat that for service.
And a great true blue bloke to deal with.
So in theory the 2001 patrol is about to be fitted with gas struts on the barn doors.
Ill let you know how it all goes and the costs later on.

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where are you and whats his contact no

Im in Cheltenham.
I started with the big door using the existing fittings but i need a different ram as it bottoms out before its closed.
Its good to see the idea isnt a new one and in fact does work.
Thanks for the link.
Like you i got sick of doors trying to close on me.
Ill give out his details when i get mine sorted.
Im not sure what it will end up costing but if he has the right price im sure he would be more than happy to deal with forum members.
He has everything on board in an extended merc van, this includes 4 large bottles of Nitrogen.
And draws of rams along with all types of fittings.
Best of all a true blue Aussie to deal with.
Ill post some pics when its all sorted.
PS i like the idea of adding washers behind the barn door bracket, from the other thread. Great and simple idea.

The finished product.
Total cost $181.50.
The big door is fitted with a ram filled to 280 NM of gas pressure.
The small door is set at 100 NM. more than enough.
Now its pull the handle and the door opens and stays open.
Im a happy chap the small door ended up with a different ram to what the link showed.
I now have a small door that opens to a point past the interior so the fridge slide will have plenty of room.
And no need to change the barn door bracket, i removed it all together.
If any one is interested in doing this ill hand over the details.
I tried to use most of what was already there but in the end only the slide got used.
I reversed it and just mounted the ram point to the existing slide.
I also used 1 of the bolt holes from the original bracket to mount the new bracket to.
I may alter this later on just to make it look better.