What do you do when the hinges on an oval are so rusty that you can't press the pin out? You use a set from a Super Beetle of course! With just a little bit of work a set of late hinges can be made to look just like a set of early hinges. All I had to do was counter-sync the top of the hinge to accept an early pin, cut a notch for oiling the pin and drill the 4th hole.
The problem with the Super Beetle hinges I had was they were so warn that even a second over size pin would not take up the slop. So I reamed them out to .347" and turned my own pin out of a Grade 8 bolt. If you look close at the piece on the left, you can see all the work that had to be done to make this look like an early hinge.
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