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Door hinge pin wear

Every single car I had, or my friends had, was like that at one time or another 20 years ago. I always had them on hand.
I Found a couple sets of the bushing/pin kits in my shenanigans boxes. Please message me your address Ed. I’ll send you a set. It’ll make a great stocking stuffer. :thumbsup: Merry Christmas.

Ghost, If you would like the other set, same thing message me and I’ll send it up to you. Sometimes it’s better to keep things simple if possible, right? :thumbsup: Merry Christmas.
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Got them today sir! Thank you very much, Merry Mopar Christmas!
 
Now I need to buy a 25/64" drill bit. lol. After I look through my spare bit jar for one. I know there's not one in my set. Take these up the road to my buddy Rick's garage and use his big vise.
 
They make a cheap HELP kit with bigger pins and bushings, I think application was Ford truck. Worked great.
 
There has never been a Factory rebuild kit, because they were never meant to be rebuilt. "Bushing" kits are just a hack job. Put a couple of GM pins and standard sized upper hinge bushings in a bag and "Voila!" a hinge rebuild kit ! If you want the hinges to perform like factory, than you need to build them like factory. In this case a fitted, oversized, steel pin in the lower 67-70 B-body and upper 62-65 B-body. No bushings. The door check pins (which are custom made also) wave springs are replaced. Here is a photo of replaced parts. Sorry but you can't buy them all because most of these are custom manufactured and not sold retail. This is what I do. Over 20 years now. The first thing required is knowledge(experience). Proper tools and procedures. Proper parts.

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There has never been a Factory rebuild kit, because they were never meant to be rebuilt. "Bushing" kits are just a hack job. Put a couple of GM pins and standard sized upper hinge bushings in a bag and "Voila!" a hinge rebuild kit ! If you want the hinges to perform like factory, than you need to build them like factory. In this case a fitted, oversized, steel pin in the lower 67-70 B-body and upper 62-65 B-body. No bushings. The door check pins (which are custom made also) wave springs are replaced. Here is a photo of replaced parts. Sorry but you can't buy them all because most of these are custom manufactured and not sold retail. This is what I do. Over 20 years now. The first thing required is knowledge(experience). Proper tools and procedures. Proper parts.

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Your experience notwithstanding, replacing my lower set with 86 Ram truck hinges and a new pin and bushing in the upper has done just fine for my 67 Coronet. I had the 86's sitting around. In this hobby there is never just ONE RIGHT WAY. Lots of ways get the job done. Thanks for your input sir.
 
There is a difference in putting a couple of pins in your hinges and rebuilding them. Just like it used to be common to Knurl pistons to the next oversize and opposed to replacing the pistons. They both will work at first but the makeshift piston work is only an economical patch job. There are many ways to do anything. But they are not equal in durability and function. The next size pin diameter on a lower 67-70 B-body door hinge is .375. most Ram truck hinge pins were .375 in diameter. So you probably just lucked put in using the proper sized pin without even knowing it. Bravo. But when your door checks/rollers stop working there are no proper hobby fixes other than parts replacement. The roller pins are custom made. Not sold retail. Here are the parts I use in a "proper Factory" style rebuild:

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There is a difference in putting a couple of pins in your hinges and rebuilding them. Just like it used to be common to Knurl pistons to the next oversize and opposed to replacing the pistons. They both will work at first but the makeshift piston work is only an economical patch job. There are many ways to do anything. But they are not equal in durability and function. The next size pin diameter on a lower 67-70 B-body door hinge is .375. most Ram truck hinge pins were .375 in diameter. So you probably just lucked put in using the proper sized pin without even knowing it. Bravo. But when your door checks/rollers stop working there are no proper hobby fixes other than parts replacement. The roller pins are custom made. Not sold retail. Here are the parts I use in a "proper Factory" style rebuild:

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Sigh. Yes, you clearly are correct. Good fortune to you in any future pin issues.
 
There has never been a Factory rebuild kit, because they were never meant to be rebuilt. "Bushing" kits are just a hack job. Put a couple of GM pins and standard sized upper hinge bushings in a bag and "Voila!" a hinge rebuild kit ! If you want the hinges to perform like factory, than you need to build them like factory. In this case a fitted, oversized, steel pin in the lower 67-70 B-body and upper 62-65 B-body. No bushings. The door check pins (which are custom made also) wave springs are replaced. Here is a photo of replaced parts. Sorry but you can't buy them all because most of these are custom manufactured and not sold retail. This is what I do. Over 20 years now. The first thing required is knowledge(experience). Proper tools and procedures. Proper parts.

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Yet, with your knowledge, proper tools, and procedures you still show "BUSHINGS" in your photo of the "correct" way of doing hinges. How so? Curious minds want to know.
 
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