How To Fix Blazer Door Hinge

The hinge is actually welded to the door so in order to replace it you will need to take it apart cut the welds and weld a new one on and paint it again.

How to fix blazer door hinge.

If the door pins have worn through the bushing and have gotten into the hinge and egg shaped the hole you probably need to get a hinge repair kit that includes oversized steel pins and greaseable bushings and if you dont you will have to replace them again soon. The hinge pins though are doable by about anyone. I just installed one of the repair kits on my s 10 and all of the up and down slack. The hinge pin can elongate the hole if it is left go long enough with a bad missing bushing.

Get a product called jb weld it s kinda like liquid welding. Place the small nail punch against the bottom end of the hinge pin. I had to do my wifes 97 like this a few months ago. Use a hinge leaf as a template to make a cardboard shim that you can slip behind the leaf.

Put some on the bushing set it in place and let it. First you will need these tools. If the hinge leaf is recessed only at the bottom or the top insert a shim behind only part of the hinge leaf. I have repaired several by separating the door hinge halves to access the hole then braze the hole where it is worn then file it round to accept the new bushing.

You can try to replace them but my experience has been that the new bushings will litteraly fall out of the holes because the holes are worn so bad. Place your support next to the chevy blazer s door that needs the hinge pins and bushings replaced. The door hinge pins aren t very difficult to replace the hinge itsself is. How to replace the hinge pins bushings on a chevy blazer.

2000 chevrolet blazer 4. You can also adjust a door slightly to the left or the right by bending the hinge knuckles. Drape the old towel or sheet over the.