How to remove rear barn doors on chevy astro and safari vans.
How to get pins out of rear barn doors.
A top one with the tip pointing up and a bottom one with the tip pointing down.
The large doors on gm full size trucks and suvs are heavy and the hinges can eventually wear out.
Has anyone done this.
Scribe an outline of the hinge halves on the door 2 and the body 1.
The culprit is usually the pins and bushings which start to allow too much.
They open left and right.
Find out why close.
Refer to door trim panel replacement see.
They are the long pins located in the center of the door s hinges.
Place your punch on the end tip of the top hinge pin.
Gmc yukon rear cargo door hinge pin and water leak repair 1992 1999 duration.
Use the template provided with the service hinge in order to center punch the existing welds.
A hammer and pin don t work and i don t want to get out a torch and ruin my paint.
Front door panel service and repair front door panel replacement.
Remove the trim panel.
If you can t close your 1988 2000 chevrolet silverado suburban or tahoe or gmc sierra or yukon doors without giving them a huge slam and notice that they hang low when open it s time to change your door hinges.
Carefully hammer the punch to dislodge the hinge pin and remove it from the hinge.
Ok if they will not move with the hammer and punch remove the rear doors out of the way so you can get a better swing on those pins make sure you are tapping them in the correct direction worse case i have seen was the pins had to be heated or drilled out once the rear doors are out of the way they should come out being as you soaked them good for a few days and there isn t much rust at all on them the old pins look like the new pins correct a flat head on one end then the other end pointed.
Tahoe suburban cargo door barn door pins i have a 99 tahoe with the 2 rear barn doors.