How To Install Door Pins And Bushing

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1. It'due south a '67 Valiant two-door sedan. The driver'due south door lower hinge is saggy, which makes the door hard to close. I've bought replacement hinge pins and bushings only I can't figure out how to install them. Must the hinges exist unbolted?

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   cudascott It's a sickness!

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   Yes yous need to remove the hinge. Marker it on the pillar and door before removal
   since your not removing the upper just apply something to support the door when you remove the lower.

3. Yes yous must remove your doors.Then remove the hinges.Knock the pins out of the hinges.Drill out the holes and insert bushings.And so reassemble the pins on the hinge .Note you must drill the holes the right size or you volition ruin the hinge.

4. Aye it'southward easier to remove the door and remove the hinges. Only mark where they were and then fine tweak once you get the door on and closed.

   You can build a simple printing out of a bolt, washers and a socket to install the bushings.

5. Where do you become the bushing/pin kits?

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   Installing bushings is temporary at best the permanent repair is oversized
   pins it's very piece of cake to practise check out resto rick he has the kit to do them
   including the reamer to size the pigsty to the new pins

7. I got them from Layson's.

   Thanks guys for all the quick replies. Sounds similar I'm in for a flake of work.

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   someone on here rebuilds them if your not sure about doing it your self.

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   I will rebuild them for you lot if you similar

10. Yes Cudascott is correct.Oversize pins with no bushings is the best solution.

11. but... most dont drive there car daily. Opening and closing the door multiple times a solar day. For a weekend cruiser the busing and pin method would be simply fine.

12. The upper swivel is super like shooting fish in a barrel and all yous do is knock the pivot out, replace the bushings and then smack the new pin in.

    If you exercise the lower hinge properly with bushings it will last. Information technology'south a lot of piece of work filing the swivel to take the thickness of the bushing. (The shoulder as seen in the showtime pic) I filed a fiddling off each swivel one-half so I didn't weaken it. I think using a letter size drill scrap (closest to .440") to drill the pigsty for the new bushing

    

    

    

13. I got mine from chrysler. They were used for many years. You will never vesture out new bushings. Recollect about how long the originals have been there. Except an Due east torso, get new hinges in that result.

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    I thought you lot could get pin and bushing kits at most local motorcar parts stores. I recollect the "Assist" make even has them. I recall y'all take to cut the pivot to fit.

15. I got mine from napa. They sell the kit for A-bodies. I think it was $ten a side

16. I wore out a ready in about 6 years.

    Parts are made and then much cheaper now, I don't see them lasting 30 years like the originals did.

17. RANDY, thank you for the photos, very helpful. I'chiliad sure it'll get even clearer when I get a hinge on the demote. Y'all're from Edmonton, also, I come across. Cold enough for ya?

18. Anyone tried welding the holes and drilling them back out?

19. Of form. Had to exercise information technology on mine to get the pigsty the right size, it had been keyholed.

20. I have wore out a set of rebuilt hinges with the bushings as well....

21. practice you lot have to remove the fenders to get the hinges off

22. Nope. :glasses7:

    Unbolt the door from the hinges, unbolt the hinges themselves from the Colonnade, in that location you lot get. No need to bear on the fenders.

    On another note, I find a Manual Jack works perfectly for removing & installing the doors by yourself. The jack I have has a "V" in the middle of the plate, throw a blanket or something over information technology, jack it upwards until the bottom edge of the door sits down into the Five, unbolt the door and roll it away from the car.

    When I replaced the door on my '74 Duster, it took me nigh 3 minutes to remove the old door, install the new door and adjust information technology, using the transmission jack.

23. i have added tubing, weld each end, add a grease fitting
    on my car hauler

    tube I.D is slightly larger than pin O.D.

    

    closed
    

    upper -added grease fitting

    

    minor notch to clear plumbing equipment

    

24. all cars should come equipped with grease fittings in the door hinges like that. I think when I rebuild my hinges I will do the same thing

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