The driver side door on my 63 is sagging and wobbling a little despite new bushings and pins. The bolts on the door and jamb are tight as I can get them and I still see no improvement. A body shop technician suggested the rivets are loose and need to be "tightened". Anybody out there have any suggestions on "tightening" the rivets?
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Re: Loose Midyear Door Hinges
Mike, Oversize outside diameter bushings with standard inside diameter for the hinge pin are available. Most auto parts stores carry them. Dave -
Re: Loose Midyear Door Hinges
Mike,
He could be right. With trhe door open look down past the hinges and you will see the flat heads of the rivets. Now lift the door up & down. Do the rivets wiggle? Are the INNER hinge attaching bolts tight?The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.Comment
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Re: Loose Midyear Door Hinges
Mike, I re-read your post. I may have mis-interpreted what you were asking. If the rivets you are talking about, are the ones that hold the outer door panel, to the inner panel, between the upper and lower hinges on the door itself, not the hinges. I remember reading a fix, either here, or on another forum. They drilled another hole next to the loose rivets and re-riveted the panels from the outside. They then removed the original rivets and filled the holes. Then
the rivet heads were filled in and ground down to make it look like the original rivet head. Maybe someone else remembers reading it, and can give more info. DaveComment
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Re: Loose Midyear Door Hinges
You can definitely see some slop in the rivets. Any suggestions on how to "tighten" the rivets? The only procedure I could think of would be to try and hold a body dolly (or something similar)on the inside of the rivet and strike the head of the rivet with a ball peen hammer.Comment
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Re: Loose Midyear Door Hinges
I recall that fix was to drill out the old rivet and use an oversize head blind rivet (pop rivet) and then fill the head and make it look kind of like an original rivet.
Accessing the original rivet can be done with the window out of the door. You can reach in far enough, I just did it for my '67, drilled out the old rivet, inserted a new one, held a bucking bar against the rivet and used a rivet gun against the head.Comment
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Re: Loose Midyear Door Hinges
Give this a little thought. Get some 1/4-20 carriage bolts about an inch long, lose the rivet, grind the head on the carriage bolt to appear as the original rivet, install and tighten. Worked really well for me on a couple mid years.Comment
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