[T3] Sagging Door & Thermostat Parts

[Brent Bottolfson]

On 3/26/12 8:21 PM, Jim Adney wrote:
>
>> So, my question on repair is has anyone replaced the hinge pin/ hinge
>> and how might I go about it?
> I've never done this, but I've seen the instructions somewhere. First
> off, this MUST be done off the car. If you try to drive the pins out
> with the door mounted in the car, you'll damage the body.
>
> The door halves of the hinges are part of the door and are not
> separately replacable. When driving the pins out, you have to support
> the hinge parts separately, so there is never any stress on the door
> to hinge connection.
>
> The part I can never remember is which way the pins get driven out.
> They are either driven away from each other or toward each other.
>
> I THINK Dave has a drawing for a special VW tool to do this job. If
> so, the drawing has the details of how to use it.
>
>> I'm missing the pivot (and it's bracket) that bolts to the top of the
>> head, the horizontal linkage rod to the flaps, the spring that returns
>> the flaps to open, and a good thermostat.  Any chance anyone has these
>> parts that they would part with.
> I have all those parts other than the return spring. You can probably
> come up with a spring locally that will work, but I'm trying to get
> set up to make duplicates for these and some others that we
> occasionally need.

I saw an ad in theSamba Type 3 Parts classifieds that had two of the 
original springs in the picture.  It was a week or two ago, might have 
to do some searching.