[s-cars] CPS replacement

[Tom Green]

>
I have used a flat punch in a vise as an anvil and a center punch to  
start
the rivet to mushroom, but this is a small rivet in close proximity to  
the delicate
sensor.

The sensor is $140.30   #034 905 161 :

http://www.genuinevwaudiparts.com/partlocator/index.cfm?siteid=214407

Tom



> -----Original message-----
> Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 21:21:21 -0500
> From: "Varon H. Fugman" <vfugman at globaldialog.com>
> Subject: [s-cars] CPS replacement
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> 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