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Hey all,
Does anyone have any suggestions other than PB Blaster, heat and a BFH for removing door hinge pins? I wondered why I could never get my door to line up right until I pulled it off yesterday to replace the pins. Got the bottom out with a punch and hammer fairly easily. However I tried the same process with the top, only to find out that the pin has snapped off in the door at some point long ago. I got the "head" half of the pin out, but the other end is rusted/seized in. I have been soaking it for almost 24 hours in PB Blaster, and already had tried heat yesterday. I'm going to give it one more shot tonight, and will post a picture of the broken pin (NEVER seen that happen before and not sure how it even could!) In the meantime, does anyone have any other bright ideas? Yes, I know about the VW tool made for this, but I don't have access to one and it wouldn't work anyway since the head is gone! FYI, scratching the paint is not an issue, thats something I'm going to tackle at a later point anyway. |
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Heat and penetrating oil, repeat 2 or 3 times. You might try the acetone/ATF mix, but beware it will burn, as will most of them.
*Penetrating oil .......... Average load* None ........................... 516 pounds WD-40 ..................... ... 238 pounds PB Blaster .................... 214 pounds Liquid Wrench ............... 127 pounds Kano Kroil .................... 106 pounds ATF-Acetone mix...............53 pounds The ATF-Acetone mix was a "home brew" mix of 50 - 50 automatic transmission fluid and acetone. Note the "home brew" was better than any commercial product in this one particular test. |
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