How to take the doors off an SC??

[Nick L]

How does one take the doors off an SC? Is it just a matter of pulling the 2 door pins? If so, how do you get those out? Is there a special tool?

Do they go back in easily? I assume that since none of the adjustments are messed with, it will align back up with no further adjustments. True? Are those pins supposed to be painted body color??

Finally, what's the easiest way to disconnet the electrical mirror and the power window wiring, so that the door can be moved away from the car?

Thanks!

[john walker's workshop]

the pins come out with a long slot screwdriver or a flat bladed chisel and a hammer. have a helper to hold the door when the pins are out, move it away from the body and remove the power window plug from the door jamb, and pull the previously disconnected mirror loom thru the jamb too. it pulls apart inside the front trunk. it's a white plastic male/female round, inline plug.

[BRAINIAC]

I usually remove the doors form SCs by blowing past them with my FAR superior 964! (Are you listening Leland?) Mwah ah ah!!!!!!

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Tyson Schmidt
72 911 Cabriolet
92 C-2 Cabriolet

[GT911]

I just unbolted the hinges on my '81 SC. You can scribe the outer edge of the hinge to help line them back up.

It really is a two man job, but if you are a one man show like me, you can pad a floor jack and raise it to the support the door as it comes loose. I leave one bolt in each hinge that I can remove with just my fingers to assist in the removal.

[89911]

I took mine out with the pins. If I would of unbolted the hinges, it would crack all the paint that covered them.

[Rufblackbird]

I agree with GT911. It's a two man job, but if you think you're strong, think again. If you KNOW you're strong..go for it. The door isn't light...it's pretty frikin' heavy!

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Jeff
1976 911S

[Nick L]

Thanks, guys.
I am not going to remove the hinges. I did that once on a car, and could NEVER get the door to line up exactly right again!
Are the hinges painted body color, or unpainted steel?
Can they be reused?
To get them back in, just hammer them in somehow?
Thanks!

[orbmedia]

It looks like Porsche shoots the hinge area with paint after the doors are hung and aligned because there's supposed to be paint covering everything. The hinge itself is definately painted body color and the bolts that hold the hinge in are also sprayed. I'm not sure about that pin, I'm not looking at my car just now. The pin might be unpainted.

[89911]

Just bang em out with a small punch and your done. The easy part is getting them on.

[Roland Kunz]

Hello

Very simple;

Porsche built the bodys in the bodyshop. then the cars where dissasembled on specific points.

The doors just got the pins pulled and the rest was like the bodyshop aligned them. Then all the parts where paintet and come assembled back later. The wires where pulled trough the holes and then the door came back in just prying the pins in.

The pins have a clamp zone. The hinges in the door bronce bushings. Those must have be drilled free ( its a 8 H7 hole )

To avoid removing the hinges by NoNo´s, Porsche used partially special screws.

Porsche shows how to make a selfmade tool in the first workshop manual. Snap on or Hazet have them too.

Grüsse