[Rev]

After almost 40 years, it's not surprising that the door hinge spring finally broke. What did surprise me was the difficulty I had installing a new one. At first I tried compressing the new spring with pliars enough to get it in without disassembling anything. After several attempts, the new spring went flying across the driveway never to be found again.

Off to John's Mustang to get a new one. Finally, I unbolted the hinge and used a piece of 2X4 to support the door away from the body. Repositioning the unbolted hinge allowed me to force the spring into position on the hinge with a screw driver and then force the hinge under spring compression back into the position needed to bolt it back up.

What I expected to be a 15 minute job ended up taking half a day counting the extra trip to the Mustang parts house. That's why I said it was a biatch.

Rev