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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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