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  1. About a year ago I bought an e-brake relining kit (came with the rivets) and now it's time to rivet the lining to the e-brake band. The new lining is about .200 in thick and it looked to me like the old rivets were sitting in counterbores about .100 deep (or about half-way into the old lining). Anyway, my first thought was to bend the lining into the band, mark the lining with a fine tip marker through the band holes to locate the rivets, then remove the lining from the band and drill .001 counterbored holes where the rivet heads will go. But before I bend the new lining to fit it into the band, I thought I better find out if anyone on the forum has done this before. My question is whether there is something that should be done to the lining to make it more pliable (like soaking it in water overnight or something like that) before bending it and possible breaking it or is it OK to just go ahead and fit in into the band. After I get the lining positioned correctly in the band, I plan to try using a pin punch and transfer punch to sink the rivets.
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  2. additional information - Oil Pressure Gauge Ferrule
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  3. 30 years ago I had an oil change franchise (don't remember the name) in south Texas, change the oil and do a tune up on our S10 Blazer (a couple years before we acquired our first old car). I was still a trainee, we were living in an apartment, no garage, just a parking space, and I think I had maybe a screwdriver and a Crescent wrench for tools - moral of the story being that I couldn't do it myself. They changed the oil all right, but couldn't get it to run after their tune-up. I had to fix it on their shop floor - they had put all the plug wires in wrong. So, 6 hours later, (all of which they charged me labor for), with the missus and shiny new daughter wailing about how late I was (cold dinner, etc.), I wandered back into the house. No cell phones then, and the shop wouldn't let me call the house without charging me. Next day I went to Sears, got a basic mechanic tool set, (which I still have), and haven't let a shop do any of our routine maintenance since. Our son works in the auto maintenance industry, I know most shops take great pains to do the jobs right. None of the places he's ever worked has messed anything up. But there are still bonehead techs and butthead managers out there. Luckily, where we are now all the shops live primarily on their local reputation, even the franchises and dealerships (what few there are). A sloppy tech or bad manager doesn't last long, if they do, that shop withers and dies.
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  4. Looks like about a 39 or 40 to me,.
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  5. That is the only reason for the dual fuel/vacuum type pumps. If the vacuum part still works try it! DJ
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  6. OK! The trans came off easy enough then the motor came right out. The winter project comences.
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  7. Best to you and your family, Josh, in his difficult time. Sure liked reading Bob’s posts and always appreciated his enthusiasm. Thinking about him makes me want to hit a country road in my coupe and just drive....
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  8. Got the new glass installed today and exhaust bent up and installed...step by step
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  9. Do not give up on it, there is a good howto floating around to repair it. Basically you buy a new aftermarket gauge, you stick the capillary tube in a bowl of water in the freezer overnight, then you prep your old gauge and cut the line from the frozen new gauge and solder them together. The liquid in the line gets sucked into the capillary when cold, gives you time to cut and solder while it is encapsulated in a block of ice. When thawed out it flows freely through the new line. Much better instructions if you search for it, and after dinner will search some more and post if I find it.
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