Getting a door off an escort

[wasabi]

Right - situation is this.

Got a replacement passenger door for me R reg 5-door escort as the old passenger door got pranged by a hit-and-runner in a carpark (grrrr....) a

Bloke at breakers sold me a replacment door which I thought would be easy to fit. Have taken the screwon electrical connector off and undone the inverted hex type screw thingies on the side of the hinges. Buggered if I can get the door to come up and off the hinge though. I've even tried levering the damned thing with a mate using a fencing post to the point where the car is lliterally on two wheels.

Is there an amazing knack to this or something I'm missing? don't want to have to drive back to breakers and pay him to lift the sodding thing off for me.

[Allen]

Drive alongside a bus, open the door and slam on the brakes. It worked for Keanu!

[Zak33]

can you see the pins? do they need pulling out?

or are you leaving the hinges in place on the shell?

[5lab]

get a haynes manual and have a ring. i would think that maybe the pins need drifting out

[wasabi]

Not sure what you mean by pins? The bits that screw in the side of the hinges hasve been removed. It looks like there is an upper part of the hinge which has a pin pointing down (the male part of mechanism), which goies down into a female part in the lower hall.

The upper part of hinge seems to be wleded to door, and the lower part of hinge to the car shell. I don't think it is bent as the knock to the door wasn't THAT bad, its just going rusty now.