Hey guys I came up with a alternative way of replaceing your worn out door hinge detent roller. Rather then waging the all out war of trying to remove that pin.

1. Remove the roller. These can be cut off or if its like mine it will fall off. Don't damage the pin shaft.

2. Center punch and drill a pilot hole in the center of the shaft. A drill press will go a long way to making sure it is centered and strait. I used a #30 drill bit.

3. Carefully grind to head off. The idea is to take only the head. This will leave the pin with its original exposed length and a nice flat surface. If you cut the pin just below the head you will be removing a saw blades worth of material from the pin and it will probibly be to short.

4. Now open up the hole with a #25 drill and carefully thread it with a 10-24 tap. You want to be at least a 1/2 inch deep. Work slowly as the last thing you want to do is break the tap. That will surely involve some swearing.

5. Slide a new detent roller on the pin making sure the large bushing is facing down.

6. Top it off with a #10 washer (I used 2 as they were very thin) and 10-24 x 1/2" button head screw. I used stainless steel hardware available from Lowes.

This really only took about 15 min worth of work and is pretty simple to do. Again just work carefully. Cheers.

 

Finished Hinge

 

Wow, thank you for that information.

 

Where did you get the new detent roller? Does the ones off the 1967 to 69 repair kit have the same OD?

 

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Just found a set of rollers on eBay… Hope this helps

 

This link was also left by Lonsal on a different thread I inquired about purchasing Detent rollers

http://www.top-downsolutions.com/ind...product_id=291

 

I like this salvage method!. This would even be a good modification to do before installation of a new hinge half. Only simple replacement procedure needed for any future repair if they get sloppy again.

Thanks for posting this,
M

 

So...basically you cut the top of the original pin off, remove the roller, then drill / tap a hole into the actual original pin?