Hinge adjustment

[Bas / NZ]

Does any one have any tricks to help adjust or modify the door (front) hinge to be able to aline them better. Eg: in the direction of top in bottom out or the reverse. Cheers

[BusyKiwi]

The secret is the middle bolt
tighten the top and bottom bolts and just nip the middle ones, close it, find out which way it needs to go, open the door and push or pull the direction it needs as you loosen and tighten that middle bolt.

This is assuming you have the up and down alignment sorted first

[Bas / NZ]

The secret is the middle bolt
tighten the top and bottom bolts and just nip the middle ones, close it, find out which way it needs to go, open the door and push or pull the direction it needs as you loosen and tighten that middle bolt.

This is assuming you have the up and down alignment sorted first

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Adjustment to make level with the guard / top and bottom.

[BusyKiwi]

I should of added the middle bolt in the pillar, not on the door.
Also if you can't get the door in/out far enough after the above, to get the door out more pull the middle of the hinge to the inside of the van, tighten, then loosen the top and bottom bolts and move to the outside of the van then fine tune via the middle one.

To get the up and down alignment
Roughly tighten the hinge pillar bolts (all of them - assuming the hinges were removed)
nip up all the door hinge screws (or bolts if they been changed), close the door on the catch, with window open lift the front of the door until it lines up, tighten at least 2 screws/bolts on the door, open door tighten all tight and try close door to check alignment, repeat if needed.

Another way is to just lift the door up at the front (with it open) and only tighten the top set of screws/bolts, then carefully close it and tighten bottom set firmly but not tight tight, open door lift back of door up a fraction and tighten bottom set of screws/bolts.

If hinges were removed use the first post to adjust in and out.

Note, ALL screws/bolts have to be used to get true alignment
door screws/bolts = up and down alignment
pillar bolts = in and out alignment

[Bas / NZ]

Cheers David, will try tommorow, if it does not rain, as they say it will............ it dosen't help that the doors a so dam heavey

[Bas / NZ]

Ok thanks, worked a treat, did cheat on one door and sloted the middle hole a bit more.............Thanks

[ben]

Cheers David, will try tommorow, if it does not rain, as they say it will............ it dosen't help that the doors a so dam heavey

there not heavy compared with hq holden doors! they are heavy!