RE: [ihc] 800 door parts needed

["Ed Sohm" <idaemes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mac, 

I've never met an 80 or 800 that the pins would come out on.  I know
they are supposed to. I've also never seen one with wingnuts.  Not
saying what you have isn't factory, just that I've never seen it.
Everything I've looked at close enough to know anything about had pins
that were slit longways, but not the whole length, and the slit had a
twist to it.    Kind of like the old style clothespins, the one without
springs, but the slit doesn't go all the way to the tip and has a twist
to it and you can't see daylight through it. I give up, I don't even
have the words to explain it. In any case, I've only ever gotten one pin
to come out and that was on a hinge that was broken so I had some room
to work and I wanted it out so I could see it in person.  I had seen
pictures with this twisted slit in them. It took lots of heat and
penetrating oil and time and the pin was trashed by the time I got done.
You could only twist one way, because if you twisted the other way, the
edges of the slit would dig in or the slit would open up and the pin
wouldn't turn. My memory is a little fuzzy about the details, maybe the
slit is just a groove that doesn't go all the way through. I wish I
could get my pins out.  I could probably get them out but would ruin
them in the process and don't know what the heck I would replace them
with. It would need to be hard and I don't believe it is a standard bolt
size.

 Taking the hinges of works fine for me. 

Ed


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ihc@domain.elided [mailto:owner-ihc@domain.elided] On Behalf Of
Mac McMuffin
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 5:51 PM
To: Ed Sohm; 'Bill Wisser'; 'Tom Mandera'
Cc: ihc-digest@domain.elided
Subject: RE: [ihc] 800 door parts needed


## >> I take my doors off
## >> every summer and re-install the screws with anti-seize.  They
## >> are still
## >> stubborn sometimes even though they are removed and installed
twice a
## >> year.  Cote them well and crack them loose often if you ever want
to
## >> take the doors off again.

okay, now this raises a question...  why take the entire hinge off?  i
don't
understand that.  on our 1971 800A, as well as the '68 800 we had for a
while, the hinge pins come out.  all four on both trucks had wing-nuts
on
the threaded end of the hinge-pin.  all we have to do if we want to take
the
doors off is take loose the wing-nuts, pull the pins, and off come the
doors.  is this not the recommended method for taking the doors off?  is
there some reason to not remove the pins?

--Mac

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