What is the easiest way to get the doors off of a nova?
Martin
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What is the easiest way to get the doors off of a nova?
Martin
Cheapest or easiest.
Easiest... angle grind into the door skin and cut the hinges.
Cheapest.... get a spare bonnet stay and cut it down a bit... it's the perfect diameter to knock the pins out.
Alternatively... spend ?10 on a crap tool that breaks and bends.
Edit: The pins can be a complete bitch to get out.. or come out very very easily.
would it work by using a flat head screw driver and trying to knock the pins out with a hammer?
i've got de-locked and de-handled doors and want to fit them!!!
also do you know any easier ways to get the main window in? we have got all the rubbers in but cannot see how the window will fit in there!?!?
Martin.
The pins are made of a piece of sheet metal that is curved with one edge left open. Basically they are slightly too big so when you put new ones in the leading edge begins to enter the hinge part and squashes down slightly. As you tap the whole pin closes reducing the diameter to exactly the size of the hinge hole.
Essentially you need something that is exactly that diameter.
A flat headed screw driver would work if its the same size. Just chop the end off.
I can't remember which one it is but there isn't much room to tap it.
I think when I did my windows last I had stripped everything off the door, rubbers, grey metal strips... basically the lot.
The glass has a slight curve which makes it feel like it wont fit but you just have to keep rotating it slightly to find the best way.
Also it's best to replace the pins with new ones and put plenty of grease on them. Oh and make sure your completely done with the door off before you put it back on. Trust me..... you won't want to do it again in a few weeks time.
I took the opportunity when my doors were off to paint the insides with underseal. Will hopefully help stop them going rusty from the inside out.
You need to make sure the drainage holes aren't blocked though.
Just in case you didn't know, you're supposed to tap the top pin downwards and the bottom pin upwards. To get some more room to the top one I bent the top of the door outwards (obviously wasn't keeping the door). I think I used a bolt with the right size head to push it through.
Knew I'd forgotten something.Quote:
Originally Posted by iainel
Seriously though... don't bother getting the draper tool. It's pants. I've used it on 4 pins and it's bent to **** plus the little heads that screw onto the shaft (ooo err missus) have started to round off already.
To remove the window, take everything off (rubbers, the metal spar, etc) and wind the window down. Wind it back up, but tilt it (backwards I think) and you should be able to slide it off the runner, and up out the door.
Haynes Manual has good instruction on this.
i spent ages trying to use screw drivers and drifts and hammers to get mine out.
one lash of wd40 and one of these :
http://www.toolsinstock.com/images/u...54585_DPRK.jpg
and they were out in a few mins. (just needed a 2nd person to take the weight off them.
http://www.toolsinstock.com/index.ph...iewCat&catId=4
That's the draper one that I've bent and rounded.
Mine were hard to get out. lol