bolt kit madness

[treed2 at u.washington.edu (T. Reed)]

I quote from your 020 cheapass tools page:

> When doing a bolt-kit job, drilling/pounding out the rivets should be
> done from the RING GEAR side. The Bentley shows some poor slob trying
> to do this from the diff side. Lucky for him he was a model and not a
> mechanic because he'd have gone nuts otherwise.

What is the pinion side??

There's a ring gear side, and a differential side, as far as I know.

It did seem like it would be easier to drill from the diff side but you
advised specifically against it, so I didn't.

?!?

-Toby

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Ron Pieper wrote:

> > > To remove rivets:
> > >
> > > 1) mark the center of the rivet head on the ring gear side with a punch
> > > 2) use a center drill (tiny, cheap drill bit) to enlarge the hole made
>
>
> THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM.  Drill and hammer from the PINION side!  Otherwise you beat yourself silly!
>