I separated the hood halves today. It didn’t go quite like I planned.
I hack sawed the pin between the hinges on both ends, and separated
the hood halves…. so far so good.
I tried to drive the pin (in the through hole) towards the middle. Found
out that it only drives to the outside of the hinge, or toward the front
of the hood, as the end of the pin is knurled.
One piece of the sawed off hinge pin out, one to go.
Went to center punch the remaining pin (to drill it out) in the blind hole, barely
tapping it, and the pin went 1/4" deeper in the blind hole.
Therefore, it was only the knurled end of the pin in the front of the
hood that was keeping the pin from falling out.
Tried tapping the hood with a hammer, etc., and the chunk of pin in
the blind hole would not fall out.
Finally took a 1/6" drill bit and drilled into the hinge where I thought the
end of the cut off hinge pin would be. Then used a probe and
compressed air to work out the piece of pin.
Now that I know this, the next one will probably be put together differently, lol.
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