H ILIFT JACK PIN S BIN DING MANUAL

The first strike is merely a locating strike followed by the second strike which is a strong rap on the punch. It is important to double strike the center punch to ensure that you get a good strike. By holding the punches this way, the downward force of the center punch with the accompanying sideways force due to the angle of the center punch causes both punches to shoot outward making the required indention's into the top corner of the threads. This photo shows the method of which I held the two punches allowing my to use the ball peen hammer to strike the CENTER punch only. The second purpose of the pin punch resting in the mounting hole is that it maintains the position of the nut preventing it from moving around. The first is to prevent the bottom of the threads from being damaged from the pin punch by the tip of the punch resting on the bench below the nut. Now this photo shows the nut sitting on top of one of the mounting holes of my work bench vice. By re-staking the nuts, I was able to duplicate close to the same resistance that the new nuts provided.

This photo shows the two tools that I used to re-stake the nuts to factoryish 'like' shape. If you don't have the 5 sided special socket, then order the later version of crush nuts for standard sockets. The nut on the right threaded onto the stud very smoothly until it got to the crimp then a tool was required. The nut on the left went on very easy with very little resistance. The photo shows the new nut on the right with the three stakes in it which essentially presses the threads inward. To do this you will need a 1/4' pin punch, and a center punch as seen in the photo. If you are going to reuse the 12 crush nuts, then I would recommend re-staking them. I may have forgotten a few tools, but no additional specialty tools are necessary. I was able to completely disassemble and reassemble two complete 12 bolt two piece rims with just one battery. Preferably a cordless Milwaukee 28v L-Ion impact wrench for the trail. Valve stem tool to let the air out of the tire **VERY IMPORTANT TO PREVENT INJURY OR DEATH.** The best way to cut this time down is by repetition and having a list of tools. You can cut this time down with the help of a mechanically inclined friend, as well as by treating it as an assembly line if you are doing more than one wheel assembly. If you are doing this by yourself, look forward to spending about an hour to an hour and a half per rim if you do them individually.

So much so, that I just ordered my second set with pressed centers for our H2 to replace the aluminum stock rims. The original one piece rims for the H1 are crap in my opinion. Todd Whooten at Trail Worthy has been more than helpful in assisting me with my endeavor in the purchase of the rims for my 96 H1 Wagon.

H ILIFT JACK PIN S BIN DING MANUAL

Now, this is not the end all be all manual on the correct way to do this, but by taking what I know about torque values, heavy machinery, off roading, and my mechanical skills as well as the limited information that I found about this subject, it is the way I will be doing it until I am corrected. Hopefully this will help you shave off some time on what already takes an exorbitant amount of time while being safe in the process. This article is to help those that have never assembled the two piece 12 bolt HMMWV or Humvee rims as when I attempted to find information on this, I was less than successful.

H ilift jack pin s bin ding