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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => Body, Glass & Paint => Topic started by: blackie on September 15, 2009, 05:05:47 PM
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Hello everyone, this is my first post.
I've read quite a lot on the board, but do to my lack of knowledge I have yet to contribute.
I am trying to install new hinge pins on my drivers door. I have the door off, and cut the bottom pin out. I bought the $5 'help' kit at autozone with a pin and brass bushings. I tapped the new bushings into place, and tried to hammer the new pin in, but it wont go. I have beat the heck out of it with a hammer and it wont drive into place. Is there a trick I'm not aware of or a special tool? It slides down almost to the head of the pin, but the part immediately under the head of the pin has ridges all the way around it.
And I thought getting the old pins out was the hard part!
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Is everything lined up? You should be able to hammer it in there.
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to the best of my knowledge everything is lined up. The pin slides easily all the way down until the right before the head, then when i start hammering, it doesn't go any further. The bushings appear to be mounted flush. I thought this part would be easy...
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Well I finally got them in, but it required me taking a drill bit and wallowing out the hole in the hinge that the grooved part of the pin sets in. I only took a little bit of metal out, and the pin drove into place with a hammer and everything fits snug. Door closes much better now.
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That is suppose to be a interference fit, now your pins are going to be loose.
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Some of the kits I have used in the past have needed to drill out the hole. The bushing is what i was thinking is oversized in case the hole in the hinge was egged out.