I have a 71 Ghia and noticed that my doors arnt closing striaght on any more. I can kinda move them up and down when they are open, and when i close them I have to almost hold up on the door. What can I do tofix this problem ?
I have a 71 Ghia and noticed that my doors arnt closing striaght on any more. I can kinda move them up and down when they are open, and when i close them I have to almost hold up on the door. What can I do tofix this problem ?
you'll need to replace the door pins but the ones i've seen from west coast metric are crap so I'd try to find some better ones somewhere or get some made of harder steel
What do the door pins look like ? If i cant get them made what company sells ones that will last me for a while ? what should i look for when buying them ?
Replace your door hinges.
Trying to fix the pins is an excercise in futility (well almost anyway).
Very good repro's are available from KGP&R.
A mm of movement at the hinge is about an inch at the latch.
Some machine shops can rebuild your original hinges by drilling them out, installing new bushings and and new pins but the cost ends up being more than the replacements from KGP&R...
Hope that helps
Because of the poor quality of the replacement pins that I found I had my father make me a set which turned out quite well but I had to ream the hinge out to match the sizing
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