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hinge pin replacement tips.

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egnorant

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Gotta give a little back...
You guys have help me through a 5 speed swap, heater core replacement, headlight help, tuning help and many other items that have made my 91 vert into a nicer ride.
Having just replaced the hinge pins I have a few tips that may help.
1. Buy a carbide burr cutter. Hacksaw blade sucks!
2. Cut the bottom pin out UNDER the roller as the curve of the door will prevent a longer pin from coming out. Hammer the top part out the top..bottom part out the bottom.
3. Crowbar and a hammer make an excellent way to reach into the hinge to hammer out said pins.
4. You cannot do just one hinge..plan on both upper and lower at the same time.
5. 10 minutes of a friends help to hold the door beats 45 minutes of brilliant engineering.
6.A dab of heavy axle grease is sufficient.
7. http://www.mustangmonthly.com/howto/5894/
This helped a lot!
Thanks
Bruce
 

vristang

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Thanks for posting that.

Good Info
 

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Once you replace the pins, did you have to adjust the doors at all?
 

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OOOPS!!!The important thing to remember is that the hinge pin isn't supposed to move once you are finished. If it does, then you will end up like me - the pin moved, it wore the door hinge instead of the replaceable bushings. Now in order to fix it right, I have to remove the whole thing again and drill out the hinge to the same size as the bushing and use 2 sets of bushings in each hinge rather than one set.


The fix for the OOOPS was very time consuming and if you aren't up to some very interesting machine work, do it right so you won't have to do it again. I fixed the OOOPS but I had $43 worth of drill bit and specialized reamer plus pulling the fender off to fix it.
 

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The easiest to cut the pins is a dremel with a flex shaft and a fiberglass-reinforced cutting disc. Takes only 5 minutes to get through both pins.
 
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