How To Remove Hinge Pins From A Vw Beetle Door

To remove a door hinge pin start by making sure you have a hammer a screwdriver and a nail punch or nail set.

How to remove hinge pins from a vw beetle door.

Just finished the tools. So i have stuck with what the tool does best and that is both beetle and bus cab door hinge pins. A tool like this makes an absolutely miserable job a easy. Ever tried to remove a hinge pin from vw bus door.

Then use your hammer to push the nail punch up and under the pin until it dislodges. For two weeks the hinges were lubricated with penetrating oil twice a day. Next lodge a book under the door to keep it from toppling over while you unpin it. I also have been told that the original vw hinge tools will not remove the mirror arms either the only problem with this tool is it cannot remove a bus mirror pin that has been cut off like mine because it uses that part of the hinge for leverage.

After several hours with a punch and a steadily bigger and bigger hammer there is definitely a trick to this pin removal idea. I used an air impact tool with a the long tapered bit powered with a small 4cfm air compressor. I recently took out the hinge pins on the passenger side of my 64 bug. Joey cogdill makes these superb tools which make taking the pin out of a door infinitely more achievable than plain hand tools.

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