The Stovebolt Site Forums The Parking Lot Panels 'N Burbs 47-5? Rear suburban barn door hinges

Okay, I have seen two styles of barn door hinges.
(maybe three??)
Some with what appears to be a locking type, So as to keep the doors from swinging open or shut.
And also have a rubber stopper.

The other type,(what i have) are just plain straight forward flat curved hinges.

I have a 51 suburban. What is the correct hinge to have for barn doors of that year?
Does it matter?
Wich is better?
Are they different from a suburban to a panel?

Could you provide me with info and pictures if possible, of your hinges?

Thanks in advanced
Javier

I think what you're talking of is check arms .... the hinges themselves [and the check arms], are appropriate to the series of the truck, like AD or TF, panel/burb are the same - these are the 55-59 arms

Bill

For at least some A-D years (and maybe all A-D years), the door stops were different for Panel trucks and Suburbans. The Panel truck rear door stops had two "stops", one about half open and the other full open (supposedly to allow the truck to back up closer to a loading dock). The Suburban rear door stops had only one "stop" location.

My Suburban rear door stops do not have a rubber bumper (but, I am away from home and my memory is bad - I could be wrong).

A link to pictures of the two styles were posted in this forum a while ago. If I find them after search, I will post the link.

Tim

Here is a poor picture of an A-D Panel limiter/stop

Here is a picture of an A-D Suburban limiter/stop

Here is an eaelier discussion that touches on this subject.

I have seen approximately 15 1948/9 Suburbans and have never seen one that came originally with barn doors. There are impressions for the barn door hinges, the rubber covers over the hinge holes but I don't believe that there are any holes for the checks.

Clamshell doors need trunions, cables, cable retractors, hinge mounts under the rear door sill, holes for the lower tailgate hinges in the body fill strip under the rear doors, tail gate catches (both sides), rod bracket for tail light, upper tailgate supports, upper tailgate hinge mounts in header.

If you have a barn door on an early suburban, then there may be modifications to all of these locations. Most likely the retractors will still be in their location, there would be holes or metal patches in the header to close off the holes left behind from removing the upper gate hinges, there could be patches covering the hole for the trunions or a flat piece of sheet metal in place of the original impression and if you look under the rear sill you will see remnants of the tail gate hinge mounts.

The door check that Tim shows as the one for a suburban is correct. They use that check so that it will work with the cardboard headliner that is not in the panel.

Tim also shows one of the panel checks and I agree that there were two.

George,

Thanks for all the information and clarifications. You are correct about the rear doors not being an option in Carryall Suburbans until the 1950 model year. Up to that model year, only the end-gate doors were available (from the factory) in A-D Suburbans.

Tim