bolt kit madness

[rapieper at yahoo.com (Ron Pieper)]

Oh my Lord did I get that wrong?

Mea culpa 

(sheepish)

Ron

--- "T. Reed" <treed2@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> 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!
> >
> 
> 
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