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So before jumping on installing the suspension the other day, I decided to 'Ease' into the work. I had made some nifty attachments for holding a hood pin that screws into a bolt. All the holes and related drilled, nut welded to the underside and all painted up. All I needed to do was pull 6 pop rivets. The Milwaukee pop rivet gun should do the job as I have used it before. The rivets I chose to use were 3/16" stainless, so I found an unopened bag and set it all up. Put the passenger side in pulled the first one and it pulled and broke the stem off about 3/4 the way up. What the heck? So I tried the other 2, same thing. I figured it was an issue with the Milwaukee gun, so I decided to dig up the pneumatic one that I have that did well with this size and material rivet.
Let the air pressure build, and hit them up. NOPE, the rivets broke about half of that down the stem, these rivets will not POP! I switched to the drivers side and pulled out the manual gun and I could not get it to pop.
Conclusion, Chineesium manufactured rivets were not staked correctly to break when pulled.
I used a vice grip on some, broke the stem, and drilled out the remaining and then got another batch of rivets, slid the collar part down hit them a bit with a triangle file to score them and they all pulled and worked fine. How fricken hard is it to botch pop rivets? Apparently not that hard.
So my 5 minuet easy job took an hour. Oh, yeah, it's a Tiger forgot to expect the hardest and slowest possible progress
I included a few pics of the PO's attempt at hood pins, liberal use of a jig saw, left over galvanized sheet metal and quality finish. I ended up having to weld new metal over the existing butcher job to clean it up.
Made a plate with a nut welded on the backside
Simple project, just weld a nut on the back, should be good.
On the Tiger's cowel, a small hole with holes for mounting
Pop rivets should work great or so I think
First pull attempt with the Milwaukee rivet gun. It's plenty powerful to do the job... That is if the rivets were make correctly
This was the second attempt at using the pneumatic gun, this is a good one too, but same issue, broke the rivet stem and would not pull the defective rivets
After getting them top break (one did) the other 2 I broke off with a vice grip of all things.
This is what both sides of the cowel looked like, nice wood screws, scrap galvanized sheet metal all to get the hood pin in. See below for the quality work under the metal plate.
Both passenger and drivers side look the same... bad. The PO must have been a custom metal worker, beautiful work to say the least.
Let the air pressure build, and hit them up. NOPE, the rivets broke about half of that down the stem, these rivets will not POP! I switched to the drivers side and pulled out the manual gun and I could not get it to pop.
Conclusion, Chineesium manufactured rivets were not staked correctly to break when pulled.
I used a vice grip on some, broke the stem, and drilled out the remaining and then got another batch of rivets, slid the collar part down hit them a bit with a triangle file to score them and they all pulled and worked fine. How fricken hard is it to botch pop rivets? Apparently not that hard.
So my 5 minuet easy job took an hour. Oh, yeah, it's a Tiger forgot to expect the hardest and slowest possible progress
I included a few pics of the PO's attempt at hood pins, liberal use of a jig saw, left over galvanized sheet metal and quality finish. I ended up having to weld new metal over the existing butcher job to clean it up.
Made a plate with a nut welded on the backside
Simple project, just weld a nut on the back, should be good.
On the Tiger's cowel, a small hole with holes for mounting
Pop rivets should work great or so I think
First pull attempt with the Milwaukee rivet gun. It's plenty powerful to do the job... That is if the rivets were make correctly
This was the second attempt at using the pneumatic gun, this is a good one too, but same issue, broke the rivet stem and would not pull the defective rivets
After getting them top break (one did) the other 2 I broke off with a vice grip of all things.
This is what both sides of the cowel looked like, nice wood screws, scrap galvanized sheet metal all to get the hood pin in. See below for the quality work under the metal plate.
Both passenger and drivers side look the same... bad. The PO must have been a custom metal worker, beautiful work to say the least.
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