Ruby Hinge Pins

[Martin Baker]

Does anyone know a source of hinge pins for our 1938 Pearl?

[Peter Naulls]

I can't help you Martin but I would be interested to know how you get on replacing them. I'm planning tackling mine next winter and anticipate having to make the pins oversize to take up the wear. Quite concerned that if I ream them out off the car they will end up off-vertical. What I really need is a 3 foot long reamer!

Peter.

[Jamie]

It is a small world. I have just come in from the garage, having been looking at the hinges from my Ruby and wondering what to do about the hinge pins which I had to drill out because they had seized. Plug the holes and drill again to standard size or drill out and fit larger pins, but from where?

Jamie.

[Stuart Joseph]

Good morning Martin. I obtained hinge pins for my Pearl from: Heart of England Morgans, phone 01299 250141. They are described as:

MOG 136 Door hinge pins stainless steel oversize 7mm

Regards from the creative county - Staffordshire.

Stuart

[John Cornforth]

I did this job a while back.  I was fully expecting to be able to get hinge pins from a Cherished Supplier, but they don't seem to feature in their lists.

Instead, I got 7 mm diameter silver steel from a Beaulieu stallholder, plus a selection of new drills and an adjustable reamer.  The upper hinges are easier to get at, and seemed to be the most prone to wear, so I only did those.

The hinge holes were opened up progressively with drills, then finished with the reamer. The reamer had a small square end, which I gripped with a useful tool having a slender chuck at the end of a foot long rod, also found at Beaulieu.  A normal tap holder won't fit.

The hinge pin has no mushroom head, it's an interference fit in the door part of the hinge and turns in the body part, or it it the other way round ? - I can't remember now.

A satisfying job, and stopped a couple of the many rattles on rough roads.

[Martin Baker]

Stuart: great lead but unfortunately they do not have any oversize at present. I can't find any other modern hinge pin of suitably small diameter

So guys, if I'm going to make some, what should I use stainless steel or silver steel and hardened?

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Hey guys, I just found these: /www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Chrome-Door-Hinge-Pins-pair-1932-48-Ford-Car-1932-52-Pickup/143644821307?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160811114145%26meid%3Da26c0d36619f49e28398a1357946f542%26pid%3D100667%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D8%26mehot%3Dnone%26sd%3D182159243366%26itm%3D143644821307%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2334524&_trksid=p2334524.c100667.m2042

At $7.99 a pair look good if I can call on a friend in USA buy them for me and ship on at a reasonable price. What do you think?

[Greig Smith]

An old trick is to use suitable sized valve stems, cut the head off, turn a circlip groove in the lathe, ream the hinges to size and fit with copper slip.

Aye
Greig

[Bill Dixon]

Small Ford Spares. Hinge Pins 7Y-949624-O/S . Could these be the same as the type Martin Baker lists? Go onto their
site picture shown.

[Ian McGowan]

Would 7mm roll-pins  not do the job? Almost all moderns have used roll-pins in this application for decades.

[Martin Baker]

Thanks for all the advice. Thanks to Bill I'm going to try the Ford pins. I'll let everyone know how I get on.