Anyone s else have this issue:
Changing out my brake pads, like I’ve done countless times before.
Ordered the pads w/rivets through Vans,, again, just like I normally do.
For years I’ve been using the Rapco installation kit. No hammer required, it’s a simple twist-squeeze clamp that allows for fairly precise torque.
In all the years I have been installing the rivets, I rarely had seen any cracks,, (in the rivets). Maybe less than a handful over the years and it was probably a result of me just over squeezing.
Fast forward to today:
Every single rivet in the kit that I used cracked. I went through at least 10, before giving up. I experimented with different pressures and when I was successful at not cracking a rivet, it was obviously loose and under squeezed. Re-squeezing = cracking.
I resorted to an old stock of extra Rapco rivets I had ordered a few years ago from AS&S. They went in easily, no cracking.
I have always used the new rivets from the kit, and never had a problem.
Anyone else?
Changing out my brake pads, like I’ve done countless times before.
Ordered the pads w/rivets through Vans,, again, just like I normally do.
For years I’ve been using the Rapco installation kit. No hammer required, it’s a simple twist-squeeze clamp that allows for fairly precise torque.
In all the years I have been installing the rivets, I rarely had seen any cracks,, (in the rivets). Maybe less than a handful over the years and it was probably a result of me just over squeezing.
Fast forward to today:
Every single rivet in the kit that I used cracked. I went through at least 10, before giving up. I experimented with different pressures and when I was successful at not cracking a rivet, it was obviously loose and under squeezed. Re-squeezing = cracking.
I resorted to an old stock of extra Rapco rivets I had ordered a few years ago from AS&S. They went in easily, no cracking.
I have always used the new rivets from the kit, and never had a problem.
Anyone else?