Classic Hifi Care

My truck has a low passenger door and I have been wanting to replace the worn out hinges. I got a reward gift card for Amazon so they must come from there. Here is the problem. The 2 upper hinges are supposed to be different and the lower ones are the same. I am trying to find the right or passenger set of hinges and I can't make heads nor tails of the product descriptions for the hinges. They are for a '96 Ford F150 Eddie Baure with a 5.0l engine. Here are some listings;
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=passenger+si ... 627e8ff43e

And here is an illustration of the driver's side door from the shop manual. It's the passenger hinges I need.

I suppose just replacing the pins and bushings in the hinges is out of the question? We used to do that a lot back in the day. We had a fleet account whose employees were hard on door hinges. With the aid of a jack stand, you can replace the pins and bushings in about 15 minutes per side if everything goes right. Are the holes in the hinge worn out so the pins and bushings are flopping around? This might be a simpler solution if you can't determine which hinges you need. The plus is you don't have to align the door if you just replace the pins and bushings. Just a thought....

I have a pin and bushing set that would not fit unless I cut the pins out, drilled the remainder out with a larger hole to use them. The hinges would be easier if I could find them.

I remember the doors having plastic bushings. You had to cut the pin in two, drive it both ways, take a punch and drive out what was left of the bushings. We had a little driver made especially to install the bushings. Kind of like a set of big Vise Grips that pushed in the bushings. Drive the new pins in and you were done. We would use two one-pound hammers and bugger the end of the pins so they wouldn't work up. We never had one work out. If you let the door sag long enough, it can wear out the latch mechanism, which is a bigger pain to replace then get it aligned so it will open and close easily.

well, the set of pins I got to replace it at LMC truck have metal bushings. The pins look like they will fill the holes with no bushings and have e clips to hold them in place. I ground off the staking on the bottom of the upper hinge pin and beat the ____ out of the pin for 2 hours. It didn't move at all. I've replaced the hinges on other trucks. It's just trying to get the correct hinges for this passenger door.

When you guys are done with the truck door, c'mon over and work on my '61 Chevy's doors!

Chris Campbell

The GM "C" bodies had good doors and hinges. We aligned the doors BEFORE we painted the car. I hated aligning doors. I wonder if Buick or Cadillac hinges would work on a Chevy? The hinges were massive to hold the weight of the doors, extra insulation, thicker upholstery and power window and wing vent mechanisms.

Well, LMC truck was the only vendor that listed a right and left upper hinge, so I had to get them from them. $76 bux for something I could've got for free on Amazon.

The wrong parts are no bargain, even if they are free......