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I'm replacing the shaft and slow speed pedal notch in my 26 hogshead. Can I get some input on the best way to install the notch pin and pedal pin. There isn't much real estate to work with in there and I don't want to break anything.

Brad

Sounds like you're trying to do it in the car? If so, bad idea.

It's off and I just painted it.

OK
not hard at all. I take new pedal pin and place into vice. Gently pein a nice mushroom end on one end. Install pedal and send pin through. Hopefully pedal is a very close or gentle press fit over shaft. Back up mushroomed end on anvil of some sort and pein the second end.

prefit notch on pedal shaft and ensure it will go on. Remedy any fit trouble now. Slide pedal shaft into hog's head(make sure your pedal support is installed!!). That's the bolt-on ramp that mates to the notch). Install notch. Install pin for test fit. See that the pedal moves forward an inch or so before it will cam sideways to tighten low band. Ensure that the pedal will travel far enough to "reach the floor" before running out of sideways slide room on outside of hog's head, and yet will NOT prematurely drop off the support/ramp inside. If you're happy with everything (now is the time to replace the support and notch if it's not right!), go ahead and pein one end of the pin like before. Insert pin from the bottom of the notch...you're going to pein the top. You MUST come up with some sort of steel or other riser to set the pin on so as to directly take the blows when peining. Do NOT just beat away and expect the hog's head to take the abuse that this would entail. You really want the pin swollen firmly into the shaft and notch. The support is really key in this regard. If you have purchased the pins from a supplier, you'll find they pein over very nicely. If you have scrounged up some pins from some unknown alloy, you may have less luck or a less secure fitment.

You are doing yourself a favor by doing this, so look at it as time very well spent.

I'll bet Dan Treace or someone with good pix will post them...I don't have any.

Good luck!

Here: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=266&p=1679&hilit=hog%27s+head#p1679
See: Jan 10, 3:15
Dan posted pix which will show what I was saying...

Drill my new notch so pin would almost pass through used a 2x2 piece steel stock as a bucket and drive the pin home
Lite taps until the last two good wraps
Mine was aluminum hogs head