How To Install Door Hinge Pins

Slide the hinge pins into place and remove the blocks from the door.

How to install door hinge pins.

Connect the door to the jamb. This leaves the stopper assembly. To seat the serration into the hinge just get out your socket again and place it over the point of the pin. Top hinge set of pics.

Continue to tap it up gradually increasing the force until the pin is finally lodged upwards. Then install the lower pin into the top bushing moving and adjusting the door as you go to allow the pins to slide in somewhat freely. The pins have a serration under the head and this holds the pin tightly in the hinge. The fit is tight and it will likely require some force to complete the installation.

Put the flat end of the nail against the pin and tap it up with the hammer. Taking a hammer and your nail punch gently ram the pin upwards. Insert the new brass cups into the hinge and then apply plenty of grease inside. Slide the pin back into the hinge.

Hold the door in place using blocks under the bottom to support it if necessary. Knock the pin back into the hole using a solid base to rest on if the pin is slightly longer allow for the difference to let the bolt seat fully home. Force the pin up from the door hinge. Insert the hinge pin into the hole in the stopper assembly from above so that the shank of the pin extends below the assembly.

This will allow you to press the pin in that last little bit getting it seated fully into the hinge.