brand new bushed lower door hinges "cheap"

Well Ma Mopar in her kindness and wisdom with recycling parts for myrads of applications has unwittingly come through for us again.

We all have experienced the dreaded worn out lower door hinges on our A,B, and D vehicles. This leaves several options. Get them welded, and bored out, bore em out for bigger pins, bore em out and use bushing kits, or buy new ones. All of these solve, and or create problems.

Well apparently chrysler also used this same hinge on B series vans. The later B series vans around 1993-1996 of which they used bronse bushings from the factory to prolong the hinge life in the heavy van doors.

The only thing you have to modify for A,B, and D use is drilling out one threaded boss on the side of the hinge that mounts to the body. When you look at both the old and new side by side the original has a square hole stamped in it. A 3/4" diameter hole will suffice for this.

Other than the bronse bushings the hinges look identical to the originals in our cars. So for cheap you get a new hinge thats designed and drilled specifically for a longer life bronse bushing.

I am gonna pick up a set of these for my ride. At $38 a piece all over ebay, and probably cheaper elsewhere why bother with the worn out original, or more expensive repop hinges that still have the same hinge wearing out issue like the originals.

The original upper hinges on the A bodies are rebuildable however. My 67 cuda has bronse bushings in it from new. I was able to buy new pins and bushings for those as well.

Hope this helps
Matt