Cameltoe & Heel
Barcelona
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- 26 Jan 2009
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ahoy ahoy Happy New Year all........
Thought I'd post up what I'd been doing as part of my winter maintenance.
I noticed that the drivers door has some play, slight up and down movement with the door slightly open, also I wasn't 100% happy with the fit. I'd already bought new door pins and shims back in spring but decided to defer fitting until winter.
So I cracked on over the Xmas period, you can see new shims in foreground and old ones in the background with one of the old pins, the shims are brass and pretty soft, they were worn as was the pin to a lesser extent.
You can see a new shim inserted, there's four per door, two per hinge, one top one bottom, removing old ones was easy enough with a punch, inserting new ones was easy too.
However installing pins afterwards wasn't, and guess why?, the shims are supplied oversized.
Turns out they require reaming out to 8mm, so onto Amazon for bits.
Using these proved a real pain, access to the bottom hinge is easy enough so can use a drill, the top hinge was not straight forward and needed me to make use of my ratchet and extensions and a UJ. Some huffing and puffing later I git it through and both hinges reamed out to 8mm, pins now inserted perfectly, cleaned and greased the up ready for hanging.
I've now managed to fit the door and all seems well, a few more adjustments on the window and I should be done.
Onto the next one on the list......
Trev
Thought I'd post up what I'd been doing as part of my winter maintenance.
I noticed that the drivers door has some play, slight up and down movement with the door slightly open, also I wasn't 100% happy with the fit. I'd already bought new door pins and shims back in spring but decided to defer fitting until winter.
So I cracked on over the Xmas period, you can see new shims in foreground and old ones in the background with one of the old pins, the shims are brass and pretty soft, they were worn as was the pin to a lesser extent.
You can see a new shim inserted, there's four per door, two per hinge, one top one bottom, removing old ones was easy enough with a punch, inserting new ones was easy too.
However installing pins afterwards wasn't, and guess why?, the shims are supplied oversized.
Turns out they require reaming out to 8mm, so onto Amazon for bits.
Using these proved a real pain, access to the bottom hinge is easy enough so can use a drill, the top hinge was not straight forward and needed me to make use of my ratchet and extensions and a UJ. Some huffing and puffing later I git it through and both hinges reamed out to 8mm, pins now inserted perfectly, cleaned and greased the up ready for hanging.
I've now managed to fit the door and all seems well, a few more adjustments on the window and I should be done.
Onto the next one on the list......
Trev