[s-cars] CPS replacement

[Varon H. Fugman]

I'm trying to install the replacement BBHME56 CPS for my '95 S6 onto the
factory bracket.  However, unlike Nate's excellent writeup (link below), the
rivets on my replacement sensor are solid, not hollow, and my initial
attempts to deform them have failed.  I'm guessing at the factory they are
installed by a press with a mushroom-head die and the ability to exert quite
a lot of pressure. 

 

http://picasaweb.google.com/persing/CamPositionSensorReplacement#52274378851
35947394

 

Anybody else bumped into solid rivits?  Any suggestions on how to deform the
rivet heads using common tools (and w/o breaking the CPS in the process!)?

 

Right about now I'm wishing I'd just spent the $300 for a pre-assembled
assembly!

 

Varon

'95 urS6