Door hinge pins

[Fullforcecon.]

Any secrets to removing the door pins.I was beating on them with a hammer tonite and no luck.

 

[bknbronco]

Leave them in!!!!! They suck to get out. i had 5 hinges and only got 4 pins out. I had them off the doors and on a solid metal surface. I used a 5lb or 10lb hammer and had my dad hold a punch. (im a carpenter by trade so he wasnt scared to hold the punch). you have to heat them up and pound the shit out of them! I bent 3 punches trying to get them out!

Why are you taking them out? Dont try to do the rebuild kit! I tried and it was the biggest waste of 20 bucks ever! Ended up throwing them out after rebuilding and painting. I wasted like 40 bucks and probably 6 hours trying to rebuild mine. In the end i threw them away and bought the stainless lift off hinges. The lift off hinges are very spendy but they are ausome!!!!!!!!!

 

[casadejohnson]

If you have access to a shop press they will come apart pretty easy.

 

[garberz]

I used a drill press and a bit.

 

[barronj]

I drilled the top off & drove them out the bottom w/ a punch & a 3# hammer. I would've used my air-chisel, but the tips/points were just too broad.

I will say that, if I had the opportunity to do it again, I would probably just buy new ones from a vendor.

I used a drill press and a bit.

I was going to do the job myself, but after I'd bought $24 worth of special drill bits, my drill press head unit had the slightest wobble to it (hadn't noticed before), and I couldn't bare to do it that way

I spent $100 getting mine machined (and waited a month for this asshole to get the job done), then when I got them back, the paint was scratched up, and only 1 of the 4 was aligned properly- the rest were a real disappointment. That was the 3rd machinist I'd taken them too, b/c the reamer required to get the tolerance right is expensive & unusual & nobody wanted the job.

 

[DrLathrop]

Buy new ones. Unless you like broken fingers.

 

[Broncotj0]

I took mine to a machinist and tried to press them out with a 10ton press and it was bending the frame of the press and the guy refused to continue to work on them. I had to take them to a farm machinery repair shop and they heated the dog s**t out of them and used a big a** hammer and punch to get them out. Lots of heat is the key. As far as lining up after the project I would agree with the other guys and buy a new set. I ended up using mine to make a set of lift off hinges.

 

[jspurl3]

I used a vise with a tiny socket on one side and a bigger socket on the head side and tightened the vise as far as the little socket would go, then I hammered it out the rest of the way. It worked on all four, but I will not try it again they are all boogered up and miss aligned.

 

[armynavy17]

I guess I'm the lucky one of the bunch, mine tapped out easily with a normal hammer and a punch. Now I just knock out the pins to take the doors off.

 

[deltarat]

I guess I'm the lucky one of the bunch, mine tapped out easily with a normal hammer and a punch. Now I just knock out the pins to take the doors off.

Mine came our fairly easy as well. I knocked them out while still on the truck the first time. I put a kit in them and was not pleased and bought new ones.

 

[bknbronco]

Sensus says..........Buy new ones and save yourself the headach!