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[cagy]

Got all the nuts off RH Door but the top one!! lol!!! just my luck it's rusted to hell and the nut is rounded. Cant get grinder up that high any possible way to get at it??? Or get it off??


Craig

[lrostoke]

Find a smaller socket, preferable an old one you don't mind losing.....heat it up till red hot, bash it on, let it cool a bit it'll shrink fit, should come undone

[998dave]

OR use a heat gun on the nut itself to get it red hot, then put socket on.
OR drill it. or grind hinge and drill from drivers side.

Last choice is cutthrough A-Panel, and grind it off, but this is quite destructive!

[1340 gt]

ive had similar problems,

really quick easy fix, get a 4" grinder and with a steady hand cut a slit in the hinge/stud on the other side of a pannel then when you have cut the depth of the hinge use a hammer and cold chissel to break any of the stud remaining.

obviously this destroys the hinge but no pannel dammage results.

hope that makes sense.

[cagy]

Bingo!! Well sorta!! Got a 5/6 socket heated up and jammed on (after a few tries wiv a 10mm it wouldn't work) Slight snag is that the stud snapped as the nut was so rusted to it but better than kick in the teeth!! lol!!!

Is it easy replacing the studs on a hinge??

Craig

[Retro_10s]

off the top of my bonce, I believe they screw in, getting the old ones out is the problem.

[lrostoke]

Bingo!! Well sorta!! Got a 5/6 socket heated up and jammed on (after a few tries wiv a 10mm it wouldn't work) Slight snag is that the stud snapped as the nut was so rusted to it but better than kick in the teeth!! lol!!!

Is it easy replacing the studs on a hinge??

Craig

For some reason when we tried to weld a new stud in it just wouldn't take, the weld kept breaking , swapped the hinge in the end.
And I've done plenty of welding on a mini .

[cagy]

Well the hinges arent easy to get off!! lol!! I'll see what it's like to change stud if not then i'll try the hings. Gotta reskin the doors first!! lol!!!


Craig

[AndyR]

I replaced all the studs on my hinges, as most of them had broken or were about to. Also im too cheap to replace the hinges!!
Cut the stud off, then centre punch and drill. Helps if you have a pillar drill so you can slow the speed right down. I did mine with a hand drill and it took ages, mostly because i think i tempered the metal from grinding the studs off. Then just cut the hex off a suitable bolt and weld it in - make sure its straight tho!! Mine welded fine from what i can remember.

Hope this helps

[cagy]

I'll try that i think it'll be better than changing hinges gotta look after the pennies!! lol



Craig

[sledgehammer]

nuts are 1/4 UNF - not 7/16 as mentioned else where

7/16 is the spanner size

plenty of copper slip when reassembling

[myredmini]

Another thread from 2008

[Bungle]

tough nut's if they took 3 years to undo

[dklawson]

Truly crazy.

[sledgehammer]

just done mine , but read on here they were 7/16 UNF- so bought 7/16 UNF - only to find they were 1/4 UNF-

http://www.theminifo...howtopic=149026

only read down to second post - after I ordered them - I thought hang on a mo 7/16 = quite big - but too late

and this thread showed up top on google - so not quite so crazy thought google would show the latest result ?