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The most difficult part about this job is the spring in the upper hinge. To remove and replace this spring safely you will need a special tool so borrow, buy or steal one. Once you have the spring out remove the small retaining clips located on the end of each pin. Don't worry about trying to save the retaining clips for reuse, new ones come with the pin kit. remove one side of the rubber boot that the wires pass thru. Removing the wires is not necessary, there is enough slack in the wires to let you separate the door from the cab far enough to get the job done. Fold up a towel and place the towel on a floor jack pad. Place the floor jack under the aprox center of the door and make contact. Have a friend hold the top of the door to keep it upright after the pins come out. Drive the pins out with a long punch and hammer. The top pin drives out from the top down and the lower pin drives out from the bottom up. Once the pins are removed carefully slide door away from the cab a few inches having your friend keeping it upright. Using that long punch tap out the remaining bushings. Note that there are two size bushings on each pin. If you try to hammer the new bushings into place they will break, they are brittle. I use a small 5/16" nut and bolt with some washers and a spacer to press them in place. Once the bushings are in place, slide the door back into the cab and slide the new pins back in the same way the original pins came out. Tap them in the last 1/4" with the long punch and hammer. Replace upper hinge spring. Reinstall the rubber boot. In some cases where the pins have worn thru the bushings and into the hinge and you now have a oblong hole. The hole should be welded up and redrilled before installing the new bushings. Failure to do so will result with broken bushings in a very short time.
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