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Old 10-16-2019, 03:50 PM   #7
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Default Re: 1940 Ford hinge replacement

I can see from your pics that the door has been jammed open too hard sometime in it's life. The skin is buckled, and probably the inner jamb portion of the door might either have a torn area or at the very least a bent portion around that hinge.

Sure you can replace the pin because they are always worn after 80 years, but that's not the cause of the misalignment or other problems.

As said above, remove the door card and check out the inner framework. The diagonal brace inside the corner is usually where the door tears. Look near there. Then reverse the bends and weld the tears when it's all fitting again.

The likelihood that the hinge itself needs replacing is probably 1%. Even if the hinge itself was bent (usually not), it would be much easier to bend the hinge back with heat than to replace that hinge. A replacement hinge would probably need to be bent into alignment also.

After all the inside stuff is fixed and the door fits the opening again, then repair the skin. Make sure to not weld the skin to the hinge like some Neanderthals used to do back in the olden days.
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