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General Sport Trac Discussion
Door hinge adjustment
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<blockquote data-quote="Richard L" data-source="post: 981622" data-attributes="member: 52972"><p>Todd may be right that the Gen-1 does not have bushings, but sometimes you can't tell until you remove the hinge pins. Then you can inspect it for worn bushings, worn hinge pins, or see if the hinge pin hole is worn oblong. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hard to say how to fix the problem until you know what you're dealing with. Bending the door back into alighment with jacks is not what I would recommend since that ultimately bends the hinge mounts or the pins and that often only makes the problem worse. Loosening the bolts and realigning the door is often a good choice if their is any adjustment room, but most vehicles don't have a lot of adjustment since that little bit is only for aligning door gaps not to fix a sagging door. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Even that can be painfully slow, labor intensive process since it is confusing as to which direction to move the hinge and so it becomes a long process of make an adjustment, test the fit, make another adjustment, test the fit, etc.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>...Rich</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richard L, post: 981622, member: 52972"] Todd may be right that the Gen-1 does not have bushings, but sometimes you can't tell until you remove the hinge pins. Then you can inspect it for worn bushings, worn hinge pins, or see if the hinge pin hole is worn oblong. Hard to say how to fix the problem until you know what you're dealing with. Bending the door back into alighment with jacks is not what I would recommend since that ultimately bends the hinge mounts or the pins and that often only makes the problem worse. Loosening the bolts and realigning the door is often a good choice if their is any adjustment room, but most vehicles don't have a lot of adjustment since that little bit is only for aligning door gaps not to fix a sagging door. Even that can be painfully slow, labor intensive process since it is confusing as to which direction to move the hinge and so it becomes a long process of make an adjustment, test the fit, make another adjustment, test the fit, etc. ...Rich [/QUOTE]
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