another F100 steering box question

I tore my '53-'56 box apart and found the worm had a bite out of it,
ordered a new worm,
pressed it on and re***embled it
it had a little play at the ends so I ordered a new pin and roller
the stock pin was peened in place
'used a drill to remove one of the peened ends
and got the new pin and roller in all nice

now how do I peen the new pin?
it's quite hard ya know,
heat?
take it to a shop with a million ton press?

??

 

I think I'll take the pin back out,
anneal the ends,
put it back in
then peen it..

 

Give the middle of an end a good whack with a center punch...if the punch makes a mark, you can do the job. If punch can't get a bite....
The pins used to hold driveshaft to pinion sleeve are hard to the point they are just barely punchable. I do them by savagely center punching at the center, then put in lots of punch marks all around that. Then I beat on the end for a while, medium grade blows with a medium sized hammer, and it slowly mushroomd from the steady rain of hammer blows.

 

thanks Bruce,
I'll try that,
heat is probably not a good idea here..

 

I tacked mine in place with the welder - just enough that I could grind it off next rebuild and it's been holding up great for the past 9 years of daily driving.

 

I tacked mine too. (But mine was an F-1, close enough?) If I remember right, there was nobody around to hold onto the thing so I could hammer with abandon.

 

well if I am going to put heat to it I'd rather it be the heat from a small spot weld then run the risk of losing the temper of the bearing surface by botched annealing..

 

I kinda fingured that even if the tackwelds cracked, the blob on each end would keep the pin keyed in place and not allowed to turn.

 

http://www.cl***icperform.com/tech_articles/F100SteeringBox.htm

Here's a link to download a .pdf from CPP. They weld the pin in too.

 

I'm just about to re***emble mine. Did you replace the bushings for the sector shaft? If so, have you honed them yet? That's a real treat!