I think the only way is to remove the hinges and drill/grind the old pins to remove them. It may be possible to do with the hinges in place, but would probably be much more difficult. Assuming the hinge holes aren’t wallowed out, the new pins just fit in and are held in place with e-clips. There’s a video on Youtube of a guy doing this repair.
Of course the prices they gave are full GM list price. You can usually find them about 30% cheaper at online GM dealers, though you’d have to ad tax and shipping.
The hinges appear to be GM/ACDelco-only parts. The door lock/latch is available from the aftermarket, as alluded to by @Nevada_545. If your door is damaged at the latch mount, all this may be moot, unless it can be repaired.
It sounds like you’re off to a good start there on your door problem OP. If you are continuing to drive the vehicle suggest you come up with a temporary but sure-way of keeping the door closed. I don’t know how to repair that problem on your car, but I’ve done similar jobs like this on other vehicles. You’ll have to remove the inner door panel and get out your flashlight to see what’s broken and what isn’t, then you have to replace the stuff that’s broken. It’s a very common thing for those plastic gadgets here and there inside the door to break when you try to remove them. You just have to buy some new ones is all. The most important thing to remember is you can always use the other door as a *shop-guide *for seeing how the parts inside the door all fit together. And there’s no penalty for using mirrors and flashlights for this sort of work. These sorts of problem often taken a good deal of time, but eventually it’s almost always possible to solve them. Don’t try to rush through it, just one step at a ttime.
Spent another hour hammering, prying, chiseling, on that last screw. It isn’t going anywhere. Was able to dig around inside and found that the latch seems to have been split in half - with the bottom half - where all 4 of the rods are connected - totally intact and held in place by that last screw… The top half, however - which was where the actual hook / metal latch that keeps the door shut - was in 5 pieces at the bottom of the door.It looks like the inside and outside door lock and the inside and outside handles - and their respective rods - all still work just not the thing that I need the most. That whole metal gear and little shaft that it spins on that are part of the hook that snags the striker - it is what was decapitated. The biggest problem is that I absolutely cannot see - let alone see HOW all those 4 rods are connected to the latch, so it almost would be pointless to buy a new one only to never get it connected. As far as the pins go - so let me get this straight - the OLD / original pins must be ground / un-mushroomed / pounded out - but the NEW ones just snap right in using a ring to lock them in place? You can see why this is confusing - Because if the new ones and old ones are the same and go on and off the same - you’d have to destroy the new ones to put them on.
I’ll just drop back here and say that it would seem that repairing that door latch and the failed hinge that caused the latch to fail will cost many hundreds of dollars while a used door could cost much less and could actually be installed in the driveway. Just sayin.
I may, in fact - probably will have no choice but to get the hinges from the junkyard. The door, along with the rest of the car is in perfect condition on the outside. And until/unless I can get the old latch removed and figure out how and where I am going to deal with the logistics of changing the hinges myself, I am going to try and rig up something. To say I am dealing with some extreme difficulties and parameters that most people aren’t and wouldn’t even understand or believe would be an extreme understatement. Think of this as the car-repair equivalent of Apollo 13 where the people trying to come up with a solution had to work only with what was already on board to solve these insane problems. I had 2 other unrelated things break and stop working on t he car just this morning. Like I said, you would not believe what I am dealing with right now.
My closest pick-a-part has 15 Cavaliers but only two are 2 doors.
The price for a complete door is $55. I would offer them $100 if they would install the door, it takes 20 to 30 minutes, this is not a space ship.
If you’re set on keeping the original door, this vdo might be worthwhile. There’s two sides to any door, and you might be able to access the stuff you are currently having difficulty, from the other side.
I have seen body men replace door skins, they make it look easy because they have experience and the skill to perform the task. The labor to replace a door skin is much greater than the labor to replace the door or door latch.
I would be reluctant to perform this myself and it is pointless to replace a good door skin on a damaged door shell.
As you will hopefully see given the work and cost involved a perfect looking door does not mean much if the internals are trashed and it won’t even close.
