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"Ric" wrote:

"Jay Masino" wrote in message
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Jonathan Goodish wrote:
I had a local mechanic finish mine up, and the rivet heads are a little
better but not much--they're pretty much smashed. So that's the way
they're supposed to be, I guess.

The most important things are that the pads are being held tight, and that
you didn't smash the rivets so much that the pads crack.

When you say smash do you mean hammer? Brake rivets should be squeezed not
hammered.


I guess they can be hammered if you're skilled at it, but I think that
he's referring to the head of the rivet, which looks "smashed" by the
brake rivet tool.

In my case, the linings were tight, but the rivets didn't look like the
factory ones, so I wasn't sure whether I was missing something.



JKG