Returd

I have done a search on titles using "hinge" as the search term with no answers, so here goes.

I just had a local machinist rebuild my drivers side door hinge. He put in brass bushings, stainless pins and added grease fittings. The pins were almost gone and the bearings were dust. Disassembly was a *****. He had to weld nuts onto the pins and pull using the nuts. Same deal with the bearing outer race. The previous owner had used shims to lift the door. When testing for slop there was significant and up/down door movement.

My passenger side door has minimal slop when lifting the door but opens a little stiffly. I'm guessing the factory grease pack is long gone. Is there a way to lube the hinges other than spray the exterior with oil or WD40 and hope it works it's way into the pin/bearing assembly?

If there's no effective way to lube I'm going to pull the passenger hinge and have it rebuilt also. I'm probably going to do the hinges on my parts car as well and keep em as spares. The parts car hinges have some minor slop and stiffness as well.

t2d2

iTrader: (8)

I spray mine with white lithium grease. I don't know if it has helped, but it can't hurt.

Don't use WD-40. It's actually better as a de-greaser, which is the opposite of what you want.

GS408

Hey. I haven't tried this myself but I would use a house garage door lubricant. You can get it at Lowes or Home Depot for around 6 dollars. I have used this lubrication on other things and its works really good. It's meant to lube the coil tension springs on garage doors so its heavy duty stuff.

Good luck

jimbosr1

i use high temp ball bearing grease.its pretty thick so it doesnt run.i use this stuff on alot of things. i use it to grease the tilt wheel and extend gears on both of my lexus and on my sons too.

Returd

I've had both hinges from my parts car rebuilt with bushings as well as the drivers door hinge from my driver. The passenger hinge on my driver is stil pretty good o I'm leaving it for now. All the rebuilds have grease fittings. I'm using mobile 1 synthetic grease as that's what I have loaded in my gun for the suspension bushings in my hot rod. Sticky and tenacious. I'm not convinced anything short of taking the hinge off and submerging in oil will get any useful amount of lube into a stock hinge.