w0rd...those f'n rivets were no match for my dremel

[hosmer]

I got the new TB I ordered yesterday from another yard...not even close. It wasn't even a honda nevermind an Integra. So I was pissed and said fuck it, I'll drill out the GD rivets and whatnot. After drilling for a bit and getting frustrated, I started bashing the old TPS w/a hammer and a flat head screwdriver.

Well wouldn't you know it, the rivets are actually screws. No one told me this...




So, I take both TB's home. 2 quicks passes w/the dremel and I had flat head screws instead of rivets.

Went to the toolbox and found a couple bolts w/the phillips head centers and screwed the old (new) TPS back into the B18 throttlebody...A+

 

[Battle Pope]

Duh, dude. Just cut a slot into the head of the "rivet" and you can screw it right out.

I figured you of all people would know, working at a salvage yard.

 

[TurboMirage]

awesome dude!

just remember, mirage's have bolt-on TPS with the lines aready cut into the top of the rivet so you can screwit up.

 

[hosmer]

Before Sunday, I never thought twice about a TPS



I have a good dozen or so swaps under my belt (most were Honda's) and its never come up...I simply didn't know

Live and learn....then learn again

 

[Battle Pope]

Hope I didn't come off as a total dick in that post - was meant in jest, really.

I thought it was common knowledge though lol

 

[Celerity]

TPSs are designed to adjust anyway - I've NEVER seen a rivetted one.

 

[TurboMirage]

guess they are on hondas

 

[dveit]

"Yeah. It's just that we're putting new coversheets on all the TPS reports *before* they go out now. So if you could just remember to do that from now on, that'd be great. Alllll... right!"

 

[StealthMode]

Don't touch my stapler.

 

[Slo86GT]

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TPSs are designed to adjust anyway - I've NEVER seen a rivetted one.

All the USDM TPSes were 'rivetted' on using tamper proof screws.

Must not have looked at too many of them, eh?

 

[hybrid89]

thats why you can't go to Honda and buy a TPS..they make you buy the whole TB

 

[Celerity]

Well ain't that a pisser. My CRX is bolted in place, and the Civic is DPFI baby !

 

[hosmer]

Speaking of DPFI's...I'm supposedly getting a 91 DX hatch in sometime in the near future.


And its driveable

 

[Airjockie]

price????

 

[hosmer]

a few hundred...I'll see what it looks like when it gets here and post pics.


All I know is its white, a 5 speed, a DX, and supposedly has clean quarters

 

[Airjockie]

http://auction.statewiderecovery.com/cgi-b...?auction/521449

 

[hosmer]

no, not that one

 

[Celerity]

I'm interested. Contact me when it comes in.

 

[Airjockie]

Thank god.....wheeeeho