Changing The Broken Door Hiinge

[crackleking]

Had to change the door hinge on my 98 rt/10 on the driver's side. What a bitch. First off, removing the hinges is not the problem. The first problem was finding the disconnect of the wires for the door so the door could be removed. When you look in the manual it shows that the disconnect is behind the pillar, but it is not so. The disconnect was under the dash, and had to remove the black plastic covering, then loosen up the steel cross bars, and finally got to be able to disconnect and pull the wires through. After removing the door, and first scribing both hinges, we put the new hinge back on, exactly where the old one was, and when we connected the door to the body, guess what, the door was not aligned, which I did not understand, because it was the exact hinge, going in the exact spot, but after a half hour or forty-five minutes of loosening, moving the door up and down, we finally got it aligned. I hope no other door hinge spring goes on me again, but at least I learned how to do it, and would be confident in doing it again.

[C.J]

Glad to hear you got the hinge replaced. Did the spring break on the original? I think SnakeOyl has a repair kit to address that.

[crackleking]

Actually, the door hinge I got from the Viper graveyard, the spring on it broke off right away. Bad investment. I then purchased a sheet of blue tempered steel, and made my own door hinge spring that works perfectly. I put the original hinge back on and everything works perfectly.

[Fatboy 18]

Just welded up my door hinge spring which cracked in half, looks to hold well, will see over time :)

Please note : Rivet was drilled out and sprung steel spring parts removed before welding, this was not done on the car!

[crackleking]

I was going to weld mine on, but I didn't think It would hold. Let me know in the future if yours is holding.

[Fatboy 18]

I was going to weld mine on, but I didn't think It would hold. Let me know in the future if yours is holding.Will do :)