Foxbody Door Hinge Repair Nightmare

[Moon Dawg]

I found a great pictorial article on the net for how to repair your door hinge. I tried it out this weekend and the whole project became a nightmare.

I was able to grind off the head of the pin on the top hinge and use a punch to drive the pin out but when I went to cut the hinge pin on the bottom hinge I ran into a snag.

I was using a dremel tool minin cut off wheel and the head of every arbor I had broke (3 of them) after about 10 seconds of use.

I have to find a new approach. What have others done?

So far I tried a hacksaw and an air saw with no results since the pin is hardened.

 

[1987LXragtop]

just have to keep working at it. old hinge pins are the worst. try using a different dremel cutting blade. it'll cut just may take several more tries.

 

[Shaolin Crane]

i used an air chisel to pop the top off of it

 

[92foxstang]

I have to do the ones on my car too,been dragging my heels on doing it though.

 

[MustangLX-5.0]

Gotta do the drivers on both my 92 and 96. The one on my 92 will be cake because the previous owner just put in a couple of pins without bushings or anything, so they slide out. However, my 96 is gonna be a pain.

I have a dremel... I would suggest you use the wider cutoff wheel and use the edge of it like a grinder.. and just grind down the end of the pin till its narrow enough to pop through the hole. The cutoff wheels work great as grinders. Thats what I used to grind down my alternator bracket. If you have the standard cutoff wheels, then you should have the metal pins that the cutoff wheel attaches to via a small screw on the end. They come with every dremel and new ones are only a couple bucks.

 

[KamiKaziDK]

You could try a metal blade for a jigsaw, I have a dewalt grinder with cutting wheels though, it zips through EVERYTHING. They do sell extra thick cutoff wheels for dremels, but the jigsaw blade might work better if you have one, can't say I've tried comparing them ever though