How to remove stop pins on front door hinges to open wider?

I have seen a brief discussion on removing stop pins on the front doors of RMW, but there is not much info on how to do it i.e. # of pins, direction of removal. Anybody have more info. Thanks.

Hit from bottom with hammer.

What Jay said. They come out very easily.

Careful though because these doors swing WIDE without the stop. I've had to apologize more than once over the years.

The 91-93 doors have a different style of stop on the hinge. It allows the door to open further, but still have a stop. The 94-96 hinges lack the 91-93 stops.

Thank you for the responses. I have the 95 RMW limited. So if I understand correctly there would be nothing to stop the door swing on my car if the pins are removed?

I believe that the hinge only goes to a certain point, then it interferes with the other part of the hinge. That stops the door from opening any further. I do not think the door will open until it damages the bodywork. Many have removed the pins without issue. I do not have a car with the pins, so I have not experimented with their removal. I have examined both, and that is what the differences were.

Alright then, I will give it a shot and report my finding- as soon as it warms up a bit.

thank you.

Clifton Springs Hauler wrote:

Thank you for the responses. I have the 95 RMW limited. So if I understand correctly there would be nothing to stop the door swing on my car if the pins are removed?

No, there is a stop built into the body of the hinge. You can see it if you shine a light in there and look at the mechanism. Two sheetmetal parts will meet eventually.

They will indeed stop and not damage anything when opening with the pins removed.

Just knocked out pins on the drivers door. Mine had to be knocked out from the top down, not bottom up.

Now, I've been reading this thread with interest, as I'm a double amputee, who needs the front door to open mush wider than it does. To this end, I removed the stop pin from the upper hinge. No help at all.

Now, there's a pin in the lower hinge. But, as you can see in this photo, almost impossible to get at because of the door detent and spring.



So, just HOW did you get this thing out?

Put a piece of barstock on the top of the pin, and across to a brace. Hit the barstock between the pin and brace.

What he said^

They normally come out very easily.

Now to find a piece of barstock in my apartment...LOL!

Actually, thanks for the tip.

I use a pry bar. Tip on the pin, hammer tap on the shaft. Easy since the pry bar shaft is square.

If you look at the picture you will see a thin metal "collar" around the pin that rests on the upper side of the lower part of the bracket. Spin that with a flat blade screwdriver until you find the split and spread open with the flat blade, after removing the collar the pin will basically fall out.

I saw that, WOW! Thanks!

Jim Sorenson

Thanks, everybody! My door now opens enough to roll my wheelchair up close and personal! Maybe now I can get at that fuse panel and see if I can fix that HVAC nonsense.