Having fun removing doors!

[Ben Wight]

Hey boys,

I'm having a ball of a time removing front drivers side door. I'm using an ABW door pin puller and the bloody pins move about 1mm then stop dead.

Its almost like the pin has a nothc or something which is stopping it from coming out.

The door has never been off, so what I'm thinking is that due to the wear on the pin from the rotating hinges, the pin has a step worn into it and this step is catching on the hinge edge.

I have been bashing on it for an hour, and am bending the tool, so something is wrong.

Anyone have a similar trouble even with the right tool such as this??

Ben Wight

[TXcoupe]

i was slack got some one else to do it
apparently seach threw the forum coz there was a hole lot of posts deicated to this

anyway if all else fails get a angle grinder

[chris]

me and yobbo has the best tool for the job! as long as u are carfull no to scratch ya paint.
weld a " T " outta to long bolts (the right size to fit into the hinge) then sit it in the and hold one end and bash the cunt with a hamer iv taken mu coupe doors off this way and all my sedan doors of on my old gem

[Gemini Driving Yobbo]

yeah works like a dream but if u arent painting your car then uses pieces of cloth os u dont scratch your paint. And never never try to put em back in go out and buy bolts because i scratched up my new paint trying to put the cunts back in. o yeah chris illl find that tool for ya and it broke but i weilded it up for ya to

[Adam]

I've got the tool, I've been bashing for about 6 months now... still haven't made any progress... I'm leaning towards angle grinding the drivers door off...

[chris]

HAHAH yeah i broke it about 10 minutes b4 i can to drop it at your house lol. it brakes all the time

[GasGem]

Yeah Been there, soak it in CRC, hit with the biggest hammer you can find and hit it hard,

if you grind them off you still have to remove the hindge 1/2 from the body, and if you cut the hindge on the body then the shell is stuffed,

soakit and hit the fk out of it, hit it as hard as possible and it will move,

cheers
Eggy

[Neslo]

yeh i gotta admit, removing doors are a cunt!! I never wanna have to do it again ay...i didnt have the tool, i just used a screw driver...flat head...worked ok..

[GEm1ma has xplod gea]

damn....i've gotta put a new front door on next weeek, yay now i can't wait,;!!!!!!!!!!!!!!damnit

[Ben Wight]

I sprayed both upper and lower pin with lube and got the top one out cause I was hitting down hard. But the bottom one has to be done by pulling it out the top of the hinge, ie, hitting the pin removing tool from the bottom, which is very difficult to hit it hard and hold it at the same time.

Obviously it can be done though, so i'll find a way to hit it harder, and then install some bolts with nylocks.

Ben Wight

[GasGem]

Yeah, I found putting the car up on ramps allow's a longer swing, and someone else holding the tool allows both hands to hit the fk out of it,

cheers
Eggy

[ByteMe22]

could you not use a bottle jack or something and just use it like a press???