Project: EH-SlingTSI     -     Entry

Aug 31, 2022 8 Had some time to kill so I worked on the center console Category: Controls
I don't know if it should be the "center" console or the "centre" console but since I am feeling American today, I'll call it "center."

This was pretty simple on the surface of it. Not a lot to put together, everything was packaged together, there were moving parts with castle nuts and cotter pins, it was all good. But those rivnuts... I ended up stripping two of them, which in my case means that the screw got stuck in them. I ended up using a hacksaw on the front of the screw and bolt cutters on the backside to remove the screw from the rivnut so I could drill it out and start again. That's why this project, which should have been about 2 hours, took 8. But, it all got done.

I needed to adjust the amount of thread in the piston for the brake. For some reason, it wasn't obvious that I needed to cut off some thread. I think that's because it was not in the printed manual, but it was in the online manual.

Then I took it apart again to get the top panel free and I mailed it to Midwest Panel Builders so they could powdercoat it and laser etch the insignia and labeling on it.


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