After having conversion vans for 12 years our first yukon 99 also had the panel or barn doors because my wife didn t want to lift reach the liftgate door style of many suv s.
Suburban tailgate to barn door conversion.
June 28 2010 11 00 19 pm prior to 81 it is a cakewalk all of the holes are there along with the captured nuts after that none of the holes were there you had one or the other.
Leaning towards the lifting tailgate but am finding some with the barn doors in my price range.
This might sound like a dumb question but why is it better to have the barn doors than the tailgate.
For those of you with suburbans tahoes yukons which type of door do you prefer and why.
It will just take welding the new hinges on and cutting the old hinges off.
First they stopped stamping the steetmetal with the bolt holes to accomedate both door styles back in the early 80 s.
Suburban barn doors or lifting tailgate.
1991 suburban cargo door conversion help needed 10 23 05 03 41 pm post 802305 in response to pat opsahl i ve hear its possible but a couple of issues.
There example on there site is a full glass tub blazer the entire thing is glass just like buying the glass jeeps.
The body is the same.
So on a 91 you wont have the holes to bolt the barn door hinges too.
Our new denali has the power liftgate and we feel is the only way to go but only because it is effortless and i don t miss seeing the posts in the rear view mirror.
For some reason on the 00 06 models the aftermarket tail light manufacters indicate if they are for barn door or tailgate style trucks.
Thanks 1967 custom camper 3 4 ton 327 1967 ford mustang 200cid 3 spd manual.
Thers is a glass company that sells complete shells for tons of different american cars from old to new.
I was looking at getting an 88 91 suburban and the problem i am finding is most are barn doors and i think i like the tailgate better.
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