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broke a hinge pin on my door putting them back on need help asap!

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Old 01-19-2010 | 07:12 PM
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i broke a hinge pin puttin my door back on. anybody know how i can get it out?
Old 01-19-2010 | 07:13 PM
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stuck in the door or the cab part?
Old 01-19-2010 | 07:17 PM
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Old 01-19-2010 | 08:00 PM
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just grab another from the JY for acouple bucks i u cant get it out...
Old 01-19-2010 | 08:33 PM
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i don't have a way to get to a JY. and it has to come out somehow. think i can drill it out?
Old 01-19-2010 | 08:38 PM
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naw... cause that will hollow out the hinge... try a long skinny center punch... and a hammer...
Old 01-19-2010 | 08:40 PM
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i tried that o.O but now i have it in a vice and i will try again.. what did u use for passenger hing pins?
Old 01-19-2010 | 08:46 PM
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most people use grade 8 bolts...but i cut off my lower hinge first then pulled the doors off and that kept the pins in the top part of my hinge... so i just drilled out the holes on the jeep part and use the same pins... lol... i need to cut the pins shorter now though... they still hang down like where the old part of the hinge was... makes it harder to line up the pins with a heavy dang door....
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Retracting! Edit: Not sure my reply was on the same page. I was thinking door check pin.

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Old 01-19-2010 | 10:47 PM
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i used clevis pins for my rear doors.. like this one-



i dont remember the size off hand but it fits PERFECT. tapped out the broken pin and slid the pin in place. i used red loctite to hold them in, and they've been there for almost 2 years no issues. if you have access to a welder a tack on the pin would work better than loctite.
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yeah but my problem is the "tapping the broke pin out" it wont budge!
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bigger hammer. Driverside hinge pin should be driven upwards, passengside downwards.
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I couldn't even get my pins out so I said eff it and left the original doors on instead of changing to my better doors.
Old 01-20-2010 | 03:56 AM
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well these are my factory doors. my moms bf is going to take the hinge to work tomarrow and do something to it thier to get it out. i need to find something that wont break to use as pins an ideas?
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Do you have a torch? heat up the hinge and go BFH.


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