Rivet Nut Tool for Side Steps

Want to order a set of the new side steps from H & A, but trying to find out about the special tool for the install. College Hills allows you to "borrow" for a $10 fee + what it costs you to ship it back to them if you purchase the steps from them. You can't beat the deal that H & A has on the steps right now, but I want to DIY as soon as they arrive. Anyone have one of these tools of their own that they wouldn't mind sharing or know where one can be obtained cheap, since I'm sure that this will be the only time I use it. Didn't need to have this for installing the ones on my Pilot. Any assistance or suggestions would be appreciated, I've already checked with my local dealer. Thanks! :)

Wampass,

Even if you find someone to borrow the tool from (unless it's local) - you'll have to pay for shipping BOTH ways, so isn't it worth the $10+shipping back to borrow the tool from H & A and get it over with? :)

One suggestion - try contacting local Honda dealers and see if they would allow you to borrow theirs for "an hour" or something, and that might cost you nothing. Maybe they'll allow a credit card for a deposit or just be trusting (if you bought your RL from them, that would be good leverage for your cause!)

Good luck!

Michael

Want to order a set of the new side steps from H & A, but trying to find out about the special tool for the install. College Hills allows you to "borrow" for a $10 fee + what it costs you to ship it back to them if you purchase the steps from them. You can't beat the deal that H & A has on the steps right now, but I want to DIY as soon as they arrive. Anyone have one of these tools of their own that they wouldn't mind sharing or know where one can be obtained cheap, since I'm sure that this will be the only time I use it. Didn't need to have this for installing the ones on my Pilot. Any assistance or suggestions would be appreciated, I've already checked with my local dealer. Thanks! :)

You have a PM.

If you do a search............ nevermind. I hate it when someone tells me that, so here it is.....


http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1360

mugen1,

YOU RULE!! I never get the "if you search" bull****. The time it takes to bitch at the people who don't search (which they clearly either don't know how to OR don't WANT to) you could have searched, posted the info and solved the problem.

You clearly have demonstrated that you're the kind of guy I'd want to be friends with and one who isn't a royal moron. :)

Michael

Wampass,

Even if you find someone to borrow the tool from (unless it's local) - you'll have to pay for shipping BOTH ways, so isn't it worth the $10+shipping back to borrow the tool from H & A and get it over with? :)

One suggestion - try contacting local Honda dealers and see if they would allow you to borrow theirs for "an hour" or something, and that might cost you nothing. Maybe they'll allow a credit card for a deposit or just be trusting (if you bought your RL from them, that would be good leverage for your cause!)

Good luck!

Michael

As I said in my original post I've already contacted local dealers with no joy there and H & A does not have the tool to "borrow",(already called them on that one ;) ) only College Hills, and they only allow you to do this if you purchase the steps from them. My plan is to purchase from H&A since they have such great pricing right now.

Was PM'd one option, and my thanks to Mugen for another, any other suggestions out there?

Thanks!

I recently put the running boards on my truck and used the method described in the link posted my mugen1 and it worked very well. I would suggest you give it a try.

I recently put the running boards on my truck and used the method described in the link posted my mugen1 and it worked very well. I would suggest you give it a try.Ditto for me.

If you can find hardened steel bolts and nuts for this you should use those.

The first nut I put in was touch and go because the nut began to distort and strip, and then the bolt began to stretch.

The second one went a little more smoothly, but I overshot the stopping point and partially stripped the rivnut threads. (This was okay though, the mounting bolt still threaded in fine and the threads themselves do very little in the way of holding the running boards when they are finally mounted.)


It is very possible to use this method, just read the directions carefully, use high quality tools, and get the stongest nuts and bolts you can find.