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Little did I know the hinge bolts come from the inside......behind the fuse panel. Somehow the C shaped torque/spring thingy broke (bad metal? the top half of the section looked like rotted wood and the bottom half was a clean break). So a used door hinge was obtained. Note the door side hardware was a two holer and the used hinge came with (an older?) three holer, but the pin was easily driven out and the two halves seem to work well together. At least now I know where to actually lube the hinge ( at those two little rollers and the hinge pin). In my ignorant past, I must have used half a can of white lithium down the hole the C springy thing goes into thinking that needed grease, but no, it's not actually a moving part. Also the inside door panel, handle, map pocket, etc needed to come off so I could get slack in the wire harness to set the door down, that wasn't too bad. And it was a good thing the Mrs. came back home just as I was trying to re-hang the door by my lonesome self, although she thinks raising the door "a little" means" swing that thing up high - whoa there, thats my finger in there!!!!!. But I got it back on ok (the door) and we're still married and the door actually closes w/o scraping the floor or gouging the garage ceiling. Loosely tightened the bolts and closed it almost all the way and lightly jacked up the end near the handle to the right height, then tightend the car side hinge bolts, then closed the door and sighted from the headlamp along the body, used the door side bolts to adjust the in/out, a little repeat of the above, and bingo, it was beer time! Hopefully my little tale will help the next guy that needs to do this, although I'd think carefully about asking your better half to help re-hang the door...
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