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Posted By Discussion Topic: door hinge pin removal     parrish 02-19-2010 @ 10:33 AM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 349 Joined: Oct 2009 I'm down to metal on my 39 and want to remove the doors for painting ease...are the hinge pins easy to remove with a standard punch? I know there is a tool to facilitate, but is it necessary? Am I asking for trouble removing the doors? Might as well ask: are the window regulators (with glass) easy to remove from the door? thanks! tudorbilll 02-19-2010 @ 10:45 AM reply profile send p.m. New Member Posts: 108 Joined: Oct 2009 I have used a small air hammer With a point or punch got it out real quick. 40guy 02-19-2010 @ 10:54 AM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 270 Joined: Oct 2009 Unless you need new hinge pins; I would take the hinges loose to remove the door, and paint the door and hinge as a unit. Thats what I did with no problems. However, as I said, if you need new pins you will have to take it apart. Even if that is the case I would still remove hinge and door as one. This way you could refinish behind the hinges since you've gone that far anyway. 40guy 02-19-2010 @ 11:00 AM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 270 Joined: Oct 2009 The window regulators are not real difficult to remove, It just takes patients and a little manuevering. I always roll the glass down and remove glass and regulator as a unit. ford38v8 02-19-2010 @ 12:02 PM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 2758 Joined: Oct 2009 Parrish, Drake sells a pin removal tool, but any such tool is only as good as the pin is removable in the first place. I modified a large C clamp to do the job, spent weeks with penetrating oil, drift pins, all of that. I wound up carefully drilling with ever increasing sized bits. It worked for me, but if I'd known that it was a job I shouldn't have tackled, I wouldn't have my passenger side mirror today! Alan 51f1 02-19-2010 @ 12:31 PM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 573 Joined: Oct 2009 Some pins are easy to remove, and some aren't. I have had to use heat and drills to get the tougher ones out. Start out simple using a hammer and a pin or, perhaps, a hinge pin remover, which I didn't have much success with. In fact the pin remover would not work w/one of my truck hinges because of the curvature of the door. Then move up to heat and drills. You may be lucky. It's almost always better to be lucky than good. Richard supereal 02-19-2010 @ 2:08 PM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 6819 Joined: Oct 2009 One of the secrets to hinge pin removal is to support the outer edge of the door to take the load off the pins. As the pins wear, they develop worn areas that help to lock the pins in place thru the weight of the door. The knurled part of the pin is usually firmly rusted to the hinge. We haven't had much luck with the "C" clamp tool sold for the purpose, but the air chisel seems to move them, in most cases, if you are careful not to "mushroom" the end. An air chisel ground to just under the diameter of the pin seems to work best, but be sure to protect the area around the hinge (don't ask). A sharply pointed tool tends to swedge the pins. If your pins are not badly worn, you can save time (and your vocabulary) by not taking them out. Stroker 02-19-2010 @ 2:45 PM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 1460 Joined: Oct 2009 If you know anyone who works as an aircraft airframe mechanic, you might borrow a pneumatic riveter. These take the same bits as an air chisel, but have a "teasing" throttle. Using Supereals's advice on preparing a slightly smaller than the pin diameter pin punch, and a regulated air supply, you can "nurse" almost anything loose that isn't welded. I would also soak the pin area for a few days with Aero Kroil, which is the best penetrant I have found. Like Alan, I only had the occasion to do this after I bought a hinge-mount mirror some years ago.

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