Wondering if anyone has lubricated their door hinges. I'm not talking about hitting it with a spray can of wonder juice. I'm talking about pulling the hinge pin and lubing with grease?

I'm also thinking about drilling/tapping and installing a grease fitting. If I ever pull the headliner down at the rear, I plan to do this to the hatch hinges.

I keep cars a long time and almost every car I've every owned wears out the drivers door hinges and then the door sags. I'm just trying to prevent this on my MINI.

Mayhaps, I might be the first, so I'll post pics and how it went.

YD

 

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I really like the idea of grease fittings on the rear hatch hinges. Love to see what you can come up with. If you use juice that's thin enough to penetrate completly, it dosen't last very long. Anything thick enough to last dosen't penetrate. Gotcha.
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I like the idea of tapping the hinges for grease fittings, but I think I would have to consider what's involved in fixing a "sagging door" problem if it ever happens. If there's a sacrificial bushing in the hinge that can be easily replaced along with the door pin, I'd probably just buy a few extra pins/bushings and replace them if/when the hinge starts to get "sloppy", rather than periodically disassembling the hinge throughout the life of the car to lube it.

 

Kinda hard to see, but it dosen't look like there are bronze bushings in the door hinges. More's the pity. That's a lot of door hanging from those pins, but after six years there is no discernable sag. (knocks on wood)
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I used silicone bedroom lube and it worked great and never squeaked again.

 

How do you get "bedroom lube" into a grease gun? Also, I thought it was water-based?

 

And is there wine, soft words and a candle-lit dinner involved in this "bedroom lube" process?

 

Some bedroom lube is silicone based. Watch spilling it on the floor because it's really slick. LOL

 

Converted garage?

 

Nah. Tough love. (and cold concrete)

 

I've used either red or white lithium grease on door hinges with good success for ~40 years. Spray the hinge joints lightly and dont wipe off the over spray for a week or two. Enough penetrates to the hinge pin to help keep moisture out and lube the pin to hinge bearing surface. I do this when I change oil or spring and fall, which ever comes first.

Grease fittings sound like over kill for door and boot hinges.

 

you must keep your cars for a long time because I havent seen a car with sagging door disease produced since the early eighties, and most of those were GM pieces of crap at that.

 

cavalier i had did that bad... but for a free car, you can't complain.

also a firebird, but it was a 99.

so +2 on the "GM pieces of crap"

 

I have a heavy buddy whose Voyager minivan had sagging door disease.

 

I'd bet he pushes down on the door to hoist himself in and out of the car. I've seen that done by heavy folks, and short guys climbing into tall trucks. The result is not so much worn hinge pins but twisting the hinge plates on the door frame/car body.

Lube wont prevent or cure that....