Hinge Pin Tool

[DONTGAF]

Can you use a Torx Socket for a Hinge Pin Tool? If so, does anybody know the size? Or maybe there are better solutions. Anything but buying a $20 socket. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ron

 

[JustJason]

Re: Hinge Pin Tool

torx no... but you can use a 1/2 inch hex bit.

 

[Zackman]

Re: Hinge Pin Tool

torx no... but you can use a 1/2 inch hex bit.

Yep, works better than the "special" tool. Get it with a 1/2" drive, your gonna need it.​

 

[45Auto]

Re: Hinge Pin Tool

Once you strip the hinge pin out with the hex bit and now can't remove it with anything and have to drill it out and screw up the threads, the $20 tool looks cheap ......

 

[meesh]

Re: Hinge Pin Tool

I bought the tool. It's what it was made for.

 

[Limited-Time]

Re: Hinge Pin Tool

You'll need heat along with what ever tool you decide to use. The correct one or any number wrong ones you choose to try.

 

[T-Max]

Re: Hinge Pin Tool

Hi

I just found this site and thread yesterday and just registered so's I could post this -- and for the great site and benefits. I'm working on my Mercruiser inboard and have to replace the gimbal bearing and some other stuff. So, obviously, I needed to remove the hinge pins for this task.

So just FYI, I went to Pep Boys (auto store) yesterday (I'm in NJ) and found a "3 Pc. Hex Bit Set" made by Great Neck which has 1/2", 9/16" & 5/8" hex bits that are high quality CR-V steel, heat treated and a limited lifetime warranty.

For $9.99

I used the 1/2" to loosen the starboard pin and it worked great. I'm hoping the port side goes as smoothly.

Also, I had first shopped around online for the actual tool for this job. The original part number (91-78310) seems to no longer be available and the replacement tool looks to me like it's either a hex deal or some other non-12 pt tool. But maybe it's just how I'm seeing it online. What I'm saying is -- I don't know if the 12-pt "spline drive" tool is available any longer. Does anybody know? And if no longer used, does anybody know why?

Point being, I think the hex works as well.

And, if yer thinking of doing it on the cheep, or have an old 1/2" Allen wrench lying around that you'll never need, you could simply cut a length of that off -- say about 1.5 inches or so -- and use that with a heavy-duty 12" hex socket and get the same thing as I bought except that it's not a one-piece tool. If not the Allen wrench, any 1/2" hex tool-steel jobbie would do -- like maybe a chisel with the right size hex shaft.

Stick one end in the hinge pin and put a heavy duty socket on the other end, and there ya go. I believe I do have a 1/2" Allen wrench around here that I could have cut for this task, but having found the Great Neck set, I'm sure glad I didn't.

They have a website - www.greatnecksaw.com

I've had this boat since late-2000 and have never yet had it in the water, or even running. So I'm sure I'll be posting on this site quite a bit as I get this puppy going and, hopefully, into the water