Technical 49 mercury door hinges

Hey guys, anyone here modify 49 merc door hinges for replacement bushings? Or are we just stuck with buying new hinges?

 

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SMS In Massachusetts specializes in rebuilding them.


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Hey Farmer, no help on the hinges but I haven’t seen your project updates? Have there been any and I have just missed them?

 

So what i did with mine was start by boring out the holes to whatever will give you a new true circular hole , then make new pins using hole transfer punchs because you can get them in basically any size you can dream of and at about $4-$5 per its relatively cheap. weld a "head" on one end and then drill a hole for a pin in the other end so it can't come out. Simple quick solution you can do yourself

 

Hamb'r Tom Fritz rebuilds them.
https://www.ccrod.com/home.htm
His phone number is upper right.

 

There will be updated very soon.
Lots done, just haven't gotten around to posting. Thanks for the interest

 

Figured out a pretty good way to rebuild the hinges myself. Drilled out the old pins and over sized the center hinge for some bushings. Should work better than the remanufactured ones cause now they've got bushings in them, even feel smoother.
Only cost $10 and a bit of my timeand patience

 

They can be drilled out and new pins made. I found a pin that worked at Advanced Auto a year ago but this year found one on the other side was broken, machine shop made a new pin. My biggest problem with my `49 was no gaps from door to quarter. I put hinges in a vise and squeezed them together. That helped. There is a guy in Minnesota that does hinge rebuilding. Hope this helps.