Riveting Oil Cooler Mount

[TFeeney]

Any suggestions for how to get this one rivet?
Pictures from everyone?s blogs look great...but nobody says they had any trouble. Certainly no secrets revealed.

What am I missing?

[BobTurner]

I don?t remember - but there are certainly places where an offset or double offset rivet tool was needed or at least preferred.

[Robertc]

You could try bucking from the outside & use a back rivet set to drive from the inside. YMMV. Bob

[rapid_ascent]

For better or worse I put a stainless pull rivet in from the aft side.

[TFeeney]

Originally Posted by BobTurner

I don?t remember - but there are certainly places where an offset or double offset rivet tool was needed or at least preferred.

Got a suggestion for a flush offset?
Everything I?ve seen and used is for universal heads.

Tried this one from Spruce. It reaches perfectly but won?t set the rivet even up to 80psi on a 3x gun. Nothing.

https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catal...clickkey=29859

[cderk]

i had the same issue - van's suggested a pulled rivet.

[lr172]

I did not dimple it and put a round head rivet in from the opposite direction. Shop head in the engine side. If you already dimpled it, you can pound it out with the flush head on the rivet gun.

Larry

[Zuldarin]

I back riveted it. Actually I back riveted the entire mount. If you have a bucking bar with a "foot" on it like this one you can back rivet it pretty easily. Might be a chore if you rudder pedals are in though.

[TFeeney]

Just to close this out, the back riveting went beautifully.
For anyone doing this out of order like me, getting the brake/rudder pedals out of the way was required. So maybe I?ll get smart and do this beforehand on the next 10.

I had all the tools needed, just not the brainpower.

Sometimes tunnel vision takes over, but thanks to you guys for the suggestions.

[RandyAB]

Just did this. Use a footed bucking bar on the manufactured head and back rivet.