The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Paint and Body Shop Rebuilding door hinges.

I just posted a photo essay on rebuilding door hinges in the "Doors" forum.

http://www.stovebolt.com/bboard/cgi-bin//ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=43;t=000210

Brian

Nice job Brian, thanks for the effort and sharing.

Don

Great job, I saved it in my favorites, for my doors when I get to them.
Thanks, Cleon

Nice job on the tutorial!
Thanks for posting it.

Your welcome guys!

Brian

Brian:
Thanks for the tech tip. I don't know yet if I will need it. Will be there in a couple of months and if need be I'll be thankful to have filed this away.
Looks like I'm going to have to get me a drill press.

I promise, a drill press is a great tool to have around. I have about a 50 year old Montgomery Wards press that I bought at a garage sale for about 50 bucks as I remember.

Brian

Brian,

Thanks for this great how-to post. I had just finished rebuilding my driver side door hinges and had the same oversize pins. Mine measured .347. I used an old machinist trick of stretching an 11/312 reamer to make it cut oversize. It worked, but what a pain!

Another problem you may not have gotten to yet, is that the need to adjust the hinges with a torch. The top hinge needed to come out 1/8".
After carefully heating and adjusting to get exactly 1/8" out, upon reinstalling the door now need to go 1/8" forward (beyond the adjustment). Anyway after a couple install, remove, disassemble the hinge, heat, bend, reassemble and reinstall cycles the paint is toast.

Thanks for all your help.

Dan

Brian
this is just super information
many thanks for the photos and step by stepwork you posted.

Hi Brian
Thanks for sharing this valuable info. I was wondering. I am in the process of rebuilding both driver and passenger side hinges. I was able to find replacement pins from Brothers Catalogue. The door springs appear to be in the top hinge only. The right one is in good shape but the left one has a piece broken off of it. I was wondering if anyone knows if replacement springs are available?

False Alarm

Was online to Brothers Catalogue and guess what? I just answered my own question. Right there below the new replacement hinges were the very springs I need. Hopefully this will help others. Sorry for the false alarm.

Just wondering, are the replacement springs for the upper hinges in 2 pcs?

Mine were 1 piece (on each side)
I thought they were a little tricky to get in .

Just rebuilt mine following your directions and with the pins/bushings from Classic Parts. They worked perfect the only thing I did different was use an air grinder with a 1/16" cutting disc to seperate the pins. I also installed the new springs and they now work perfectly. Thanks again for the detailed post and pictures it really helped.

While waiting for new bushings & pins,
In the process of rebuilding my hinges I came across some elongaded sloppy holes, missing spacers & also missing faceplate on one of the brackets. Could not find replacement parts so I made them. Hope some of these photos will help others that face this common problem. For some reason photobucket has these in reverse order. Start with photo#011 and work your way back and everything should explain the process. This was a fun project. Waiting anxiously for the new springs,Pins & bushings.


http://s150.photobucket.com/albums/s107/vickraft/

Just bought them from classic parts. They are great to work with and ship immediately