Unsticking A Stuck TJ Door... Sometimes You just Have To Get Ugly With It!

For what ever reason, we had a door on one of our TJ's get bound up enough that there was only one option left! This is not an uncommon problem for the Jeep TJ, we've seen it before, know others who have fought it as well so here, we'll show you a quick remedy to at least get the door to open so a new latch can be replaced if needed.

After fighting with it for a couple of hours and trying to pry it open, pull the linkage from inside (after removing the interior door handle) with no success and even pleading with it, I decided to take an approach that I knew would open the door!

The linkage in the door had somehow gotten bound up enough that this door refused to open. Knowing that I could cut the latch hoop in an effort to at least get the door to open, I went ahead and made the decision to save time and get this sucker opened so we could get it operational again.