A new passenger side view mirror on this vw bug<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n

A custom hinge pin removal tool<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

A Upper hinge pin removal so passenger side mirror can be installed.\u00a0 Everyone on the Internet says what a hard job it is, so I took there word for it and\u00a0applied penetrating oil every day for a week.\u00a0 Next\u00a0I tried using a HFH and a punch and quickly realized that would not\u00a0work.\u00a0 So Harbor Freight to the rescue.\u00a0 I bought a 5 dollar C clamp and made a tool to remove the rusted hinge.\u00a0 First I removed the nickel size piece in the end of the screw and sized the end of the screw to fit into a 3\/8″ socket. Second I broke out my Harbor Freight wire welder and welded a\u00a0bolt on the none adjustable end of the clamp.\u00a0 After grinding down the top I put the clamp on the hinge with the adjusting screw up.\u00a0 I tightened the clamp as tight as I could and hit upward on the clamp with that same HFH and\u00a0the hinge\u00a0popped up.\u00a0 Victory at last.\u00a0 I believe the penetrating oil was very instrumental in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is very creative tool that made light work of removing the hinge pin on a VW Beetle. This came from a gentleman that bought our 68 VW bug and he has been sending us progress updates ever since. He’s retired so has the time and experience to do very meticulous work. He’s really done […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[40,39],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-car-how-to","tag-hinge-pin-tool","tag-vw-hinge-pin-removal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.classiccarauto.com\/wordpress2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.classiccarauto.com\/wordpress2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.classiccarauto.com\/wordpress2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.classiccarauto.com\/wordpress2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.classiccarauto.com\/wordpress2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.classiccarauto.com\/wordpress2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"http:\/\/www.classiccarauto.com\/wordpress2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.classiccarauto.com\/wordpress2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.classiccarauto.com\/wordpress2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.classiccarauto.com\/wordpress2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}