Repairing Your Broken Glove Box Hinge

[Mr Clean]

I cut a couple of two inch wide pieces of plastic from the side of an oil bottle and pop riveted them to the glove box and used the plastic piece still on the dash for a washer to bolt everything back on.Just bend the plastic pieces in the middle back and forth a few times so the door don't stick out and you can see where the seam needs to go. Can't see the patch unless you lay down in the floor.

You need to take some pics. If there is an easier way, I'm all about it.

 

[gotyourgoat]

Did a similar repair on mine years ago with slightly different tools and method but the same results.

Only bought the hinge and some 1/2 inch screws that would match. Angle grinder to cut the hinge, wrench for the original screws, screwdriver for the new. Tape for alignment.

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Never took the box apart. Used the broken hinge to measure the hinge cut. Tape the broken piece to the hinge and the hinge to the box. Check for alignment. Put new screws in the box. Check alignment. Then the original screws back on sandwiching the old hinge piece.

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Screws barely show through the bottom of the box on the right half because of the taper.

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Never had an issue since.

 

[69 gto]

Here you go Mr Clean.Sorry it took so long to get back to ya.But I've been doing everything slow sense 12/9/2019 fell off a ladder at work and broke a few of my body parts.Excuse the mess .

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[Mr Clean]

Here you go Mr Clean.Sorry it took so long to get back to ya.But I've been doing everything slow sense 12/9/2019 fell off a ladder at work and broke a few of my body parts.Excuse the mess .

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That works....Good Job...

 

[Doppleganger]

My hinge works great - as soon as you turn the knob the whole mess swings down 180 degrees and dumps everything.

Where do you get the wire that inevitably breaks?

 

[Robert Bare]

LOL.I found the glove box hinge repair on the net,did not work for my old rust bucket 1979 plow truck.Di the piano himge thing,seems the back side of the rivets hit the small strap of metal that holds the glove box in, not allowing it to close.After drilling out the rivites I put in,I put in,tapered head 5mm screws, and it almost worked,LOL.After unscrewing it from the thin lower dash strip,I reinstalled it,"but" I put back in the broke off piece from the original hinge.Now works perfect.I did come to realize that the glove boxes and possibly the lower dash strip is different, between the years.I do think if I would have mounted the "piano" hinge the other way,I possibly might have not had to add the broke off piece of plastic hinge to the mounting point.

 

[Corvette Ed]

I’ve got to fix mine,luckily I found a piano hinge I’d put you a few years back. Thanks for the info.

 

[73c20jim]

Exactly the info I needed. No clue hinge was plastic.

 

[16927]

My 1981 was repaired in the same way by the original owner, my father, at the time he worked in a sheet metal shop and the hinge is a little heavier then a piano hinge

 

[CB-71]

Thanks for the write-up. I finally joined this forum because of it.

 

[84GMCSierra]

I was in Home Depot yesterday and they sell this hinge in black as well. Almost tempted to break off my original hinge and do this so it's done, lol

 

[87gmcburb]

I broke my glove box hinge today, looked at LMC, and Classic Chevy. LMC 29.95 + 10.95 Classic Chevy 49.95 + 7.95. Both to much for me.

Went to local hardware store picked up a piece of Continuous Hinge 6.95.

Here are the tools I used:

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First disassemble your glove box, four screws on the inside, and the lock assembly.

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Measure the plastic tab from were your plastic hinge broke. Mine was about 16". I taped off 16" on the new hinge, and cut with a pair of metal shears. Filed the edges.

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Center it on your glove box, and drill new holes for the pop rivets, and pop rivet it together.

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Put the glove box back together:

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Take it out to the truck close it so the latch will keep it in place. I drilled new hole, and screwed it back together. You can use your old screws, or get new sheet metal screws, that's up to you.

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Tomorrow I'm going to get different sheet metal screws and paint the hinge.

Once painted it is a lot better than OEM. I like it!!!!