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| | | | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 12 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 12 | I'm just about to rebuild the doors on my '66. They probably haven't been removed in years and I'm worried about the hinge bolts ringing off when I try to undo them. How can I assure they don't and how do I get the thread out if they do?
Andy
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 200 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 200 | Hi Andy,
If they are rusted pretty bad, soak them down with your favorite penatrating oil and let them sit for a day or two. If they are really bad, I have just kept them damp with the oil. Some of them took a couple of weeks. Every time I went by the truck, I would squirt some oil on them. I have found that with some of the old bolts, if you tighten them just a little, and then loosen, they will come out. If you break them off, then use a drill to drill into the old bolt shank and a screw extractor tapped into the old shank and turn it out. Once it breaks loose it will come out pretty easy. Good Luck.
Hope this helps.
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| | | | | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 | If you will be reusing the hinges it would be a good idea to mark their position to help get them to line up easier when you put them back on. If you drill a small hole all the way through the hinge and door frame before you take them off you can use the drill bit as an alignment tool when you put them back on. This usually works even if the hinges get rebuilt because the doors were probably aligned before the hinges wore out.
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A lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 9,115 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 9,115 | If you find that the bolts move part of a turn and then bind, this presents an opportunity to get more spray into the threads. The next step is to turn it in again, spray some more and keep working it back and forth. In this way the debris gets cleared from the threads. | | | | | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 12 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 12 | Thanks guys, I'll start a-squirtin' today and take it real easy.
Andy
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