All four doors are banged up and dented. It's more cost effective to replace them than repair them. I've located a donor car and would like to know how to take them off and transplant them to my car.

Both cars are 98 and black.
Any help will be appreciated whether its a link, or pictures, or a how-to somewhere, or a video, or....

 

in my experience its best to disassemble the entire doorshell, and have someone give you a hand when removing the door hinge bolts.

 

Biggest decision is how to handle electrical wires. Option one is to pull door panels from donor car, disconnect all the electrical connectors, and thread them out the front side of door before you unbolt the door from the donor car. Option two is to get a big set of lopping shears and cut the whole bundle just outside the front side of the door. Then you can pull them all out when you hang door on new car and connect up the wires from the new car. In either case, I would try to keep the rubber covers over the wire bundle intact for possible reuse, as you are like to tear one or more up on donor or recipient car. I lean toward option one, just because it leaves you more options WRT reusing wiring harness, but it takes longer. Are you planning to reuse inside panels from the donor car or move existing panels from recipient car to new doors?

 

The wires have a connector just behind the grommet, frame side. No need to cut or pull them from the doors. Rear doors have bolts on the inside so you will need to remove the B pillar trim. Fronts are self explainatory, but tight if the fenders are in place. A ratcheting wrench comes in very handy for some of the bolts.

 

So I just have to unplug that connector and the wires will come with the door? If so, that sounds great.

So unplug connectors from behind the grommets on the body of the cars.

Remove front fenders to get to the front door bolts.
Remove B pillar trim to get to the rear door bolts.

Does that sound right?

 

If your hinges are still good then leave the hinges on your car. It will make the job a million times easier.
You wont have to worry about aligning the doors,removing the interior trim or fenders.

 

The hinges are good and will be left on my car. Does the FSm show how to remove the doors? As in the bolt sizes, torque specs etc?

 

There will be 1 10mm bolt and 4 12mm nuts per door if you leave the hinges on the car.

 

FSM shows how to do it. If u need it PM me.

Sutter, the comment u made was money. I jus replaced my key cylinders in the front doors and cutting and splicing wires would have been a PITA.

Hinges comment was cool too. Try to make the job easy on yurself. If u take of the hinges the job becomes a 2 or 3 man job.