How To Remove Door Hinge Pin Vw Beetle

This tool worked great for removing the upper hinge pin and i think would work for the lower if the running board was removed.

How to remove door hinge pin vw beetle.

Vw beetle and split tool. In order to do this i had to remove the existing door hinge pin to replace it with one with the threaded mirror mount. The other parts are to install the pin back in to the door hinge. The center piece is a barrel which will allow the pin to be press upward and into the barrel.

If the pin is still being a bear to remove after you got it started just use a 1 long 1 4 dowel extention pin to finish the job. Of course to do that i first had to get the old hinge pin out. I also have been told that the original vw hinge tools will not remove the mirror arms either the only problem with this tool is it cannot remove a bus mirror pin that has been cut off like mine because it uses that part of the hinge for leverage. Vw splitty and beetle hinge pin removal tool birmingham united kingdom.

After several hours with a punch and a steadily bigger and bigger hammer there is definitely a trick to this pin removal idea. So i have stuck with what the tool does best and that is both beetle and bus cab door hinge pins. Joey cogdill makes these superb tools which make taking the pin out of a door infinitely more achievable than plain hand tools. Just finished the tools.