Door Stop Rebuild, After R&R both doors produce loud clicks upon opening Options

[North Coast Jim]

Rebuilt both the door stops with 914 Rubber kits last year. Kits were from a purchase made in early 2017 IIRC, could be earlier. Doors open and close fine BUT both closures produce loud clicks upon closure of the door. Opening of the doors adds a loud pop to the clicks. Both are lubricated but no relief is found.

What I have noticed is the aluminum machined arms received have no vertical grooves where the wheels are to roll. The profile is smooth except for the closure stop points. I've looked at other door closures and this is the only difference I see - they have these vertical grooves.

Anybody else has experience with these closures and can provide some input.

Left an e-mail with Mikey but he must be flying or driving to Hershey.

[raynekat]

Attacked my door stops today to rid them of the loud snapping when they are opening or closed.

Again in my case, the door pin fits snuggly into pin receivers in the door jams on both sides.
My issue was that the hole in the end of the arm was too large.
See pic above.

Found some Oilite bronze bushings on-line that were 3/16" ID by 5/16" OD by 1/4" long.
Seemed like this was the size I needed to start with.

I found that the bushings w/o the collar worked better or easier.

First I enlarged the hole in the end of the arm with my 5/16" drill bit.
Then took the arm and bushing over to my vise and beat the bushing into the hole, and continued to beat on it with the hammer to try and flatten out the bushing a bit to really snug it up into that hole that was enlarged.
Seemed to be in there very tightly.

The pin's OD is right at 6mm.
A 15/64" drill bit is right at 5.95mm, a hair smaller than the pin, so perfect.
I used progressively larger drill bits starting just small enough to go into the ID of the bushing.
Slow and patient here as you don't want to dislodge the bushing from the end of the arm.
After working my way up to the 15/64" drill bit, I used that to barely open up the hole enough for the pin to snuggly fit inside.

After this I dressed up both sides of the bushing so that it was flush with the arm.
You don't want any of the bushing sticking out on either side of the arm or it won't fit into the receiver in the door jam.
I used my dremel with a sanding drum to take care of this and followed it up with some very fine sandpaper.

The bushing still looked quite seated in the arm.
The bronze bushing was quite tough to drill, so I think it will be very durable and last many more miles.

The end result is no more snapping noise when opening and closing the door.
Job done!

I dressed up the end of the arm to look much better than what you see in the pic.