Success rate of hinge repair with just pins and bushings?

[83GMCK2500]

Wallered/hogged/egged, nothing new here to this Eastern WA farmboy.

I have put...3 sets? I think, of Dorman hinge pins and bushings in, and I have one thing to say. DO NOT BUY THAT CHEAP SH!T. They wear out fast, even when lubed regularly with a lithium spray. We put new pins/bushings, and a new striker set into a couple of trucks, in less than a year the doors were dragging on the striker bolts, and everything was adjusted beautifully when we replaced the parts.

I went and bought GM everything for my '83 a few years ago and the quality is so much better, very much worth the blue and white box with the blue square.

[JellyBeanDriver]

Originally Posted by 83GMCK2500

I went and bought GM everything for my '83 a few years ago and the quality is so much better, very much worth the blue and white box with the blue square.

Did you buy GM bushings and pins or entire hinges?

I wasn't crazy about pounding the pin in. I'm thinking it would stress the thrust face on the bushing from all the pounding.

That said, I wanted to drill a hole near the bottom of the pin to put in a cotter just in case down the road the pin works its way loose. Couldn't center punch nor start a hole with a drill bit due to the Dorman pin being hardened.

Was the factory pin hardened? I hacksawed through them pretty easily so I don't think so.

Seems the Dorman pin would hold up due to being hardened - as long as the bushing holds up.

[83GMCK2500]

I bought pins and bushings. I don't believe that the hinge needs to be replaced unless the door has been over-extended or the pins wore into the hinge themselves.