Well I finally received that hing pin pulling tool from Bob Drake, and suprisingly it looked pretty hefty and like it might do the trick. It comes with three lengths of this hardened pin, which after you set it up on your hinge you would slowly crank a bolt upwards with a box end wrench which in turn would push the hardened pin up against the hinge pin from below. There is only one problem....it doesn't fit a '48 f1 (nor a '49, '50, and '51 for that matter). The pickup's door is curved so when the tool is attached, the bolt that needs to be cranked is literally flush with the door!. If I started cranking away, I would cause major damage to the paint and even put dents in the door! Oh well, the peep mirrors work just fine!!!! I'd better get this stupid idea out of my head before I do some real damage!!! LOL!!

 

Thats a bummer. Oh well, better to find out right up front and not in the middle of things when you have quite a bit of pressure applied to it and have it slip off and ding the door.

Sorry it didn't work out for you. If you are very careful on lining things up you might stand a chance on drilling the pins out

Since your last discussion of this I have been driving my truck. I have a peep mirror that clamps to the edge of the door. I can see why you would want something else. they leave alot to be desired.

Bobby

 

Here's an idea, that I just pulled outta, well never mind.

I've been playing with a product called Evapo-Rust, a non-toxic enviro safe rust eater.
So far I'm at the point of amaziment at what it does.
Rust goes away, gone, zap, nada. I even used it on some fenders that I had sanded (Paint) down to bare metal, I was about 5 minutes from getting rained on so there was noway to primer. I took a shop rag soaked it with this evapo-rust, wiped the bare metal down and put the tools away. The car sat outside for two days, bare fenders exposed, one nights rain, anothe night with frost. When I got back to the the car there was not a trace of rust, no damage to the surronding paint. I wiped it down with thinnger, primed the fenders with etching primer, and painted them. Not problem one.

No for the more than brilliant Idea, Get some modeling clay, form a cup aroung the top of the hindge so that the liquid can soak into the hindge pin, fill with evapo-rust and cap the cup with another piece of clay to prevent evaporation. Wait a day or so and (hopefully) remove the pin.

Evapo-Rust is available at Auto Zone. I have no financial interest in either Auto Zone or Evapo-Rust. The stuff just eats rust.

Dick