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Re: [T3] disassembling the vent wing for new seal, how do you take it apart?


<x-flowed>On Sunday, May 23, 2004, at 07:42  AM, Jim Adney wrote:

It still looks to me like you would have to take the vent frame completely out
of the door to re-do the rivet, however. Does anyone have any hints on setting
these rivets? Is there a special tool that would do this, even in the door?

When I did it I removed the vent wing and positioned it upside down with the rivet head positioned carefully on an anvil and then, with a friend holding the assembly, very carefully set the rivet with a large rivet set and hammer, working slowly and continually checking the tension as I went. It's very hard to set the rivet just right so that it's not too loose or too tight. VW would have had a special jig and some sort of controlled rivet press to make this job easier and more accurate.


Scott
62 VW1500 KG

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