How to install impact cover

[kbkna]

I can't find a thread on how to install a cover for my Ti2135. Do I lube it up or heat it up? I know someone can help. Thanks!

 

[tonydanzah]

maybe boil it?

 

[airbuff101]

Usually hot water for a minute or two KB.
Makes it very pliable. Just work fast............
Rob

 

[mkdive]

Mine was amazingly hard to install. Was a super tight fit! I soaked mine in hot water and then still had to stretch it to the point I thought it was going to rip....but it didn't. Was not easy that's for sure!

 

[kbkna]

Thanks I'll give it a try. I would hate to tear it and it is not very pliable.

 

[TruckTech915]

Mine went on without heating. It was TIGHT but after a few seconds of tinkering with it, it slipped right on. I slid the drive end on first then pulled and wiggled the tail end, wasn't to hard.

 

[DanCo]

Hot water, did the trick for my IR 231. My co-worker did his without the water and tore the cover. Its a pain in the balls, but it does its job.

 

[fr0mastaj]

Put it on both my 2115 and 2135 by just pulling it on - not to say it wasnt hard to do... Didnt have to use heat or anything though. Just make sure you put the drive end in first...

 

[airbuff101]

How about the slime that would build up under the covers on all the old aluminum housing guns. The boots were always hard and a totally different color then when they were lovingly installed years before..........
Slippin' around, torn, with that gray gritty slurry under them.....they'd only come off with a razor knife at that point. nose bumpers would be all oil soaked and swollen, never to fit again.......always having to file the mashed over retainer clip groove, yankin the o-ring and getting the new clips to fit well.replacing hammers and throttle o-rings.......eeewwwwwwwww.

sorry, just took a ride back in time to another place....so long ago......
I'm back now.
Rob

 

[DrkMtnDew]

Put it on both my 2115 and 2135 by just pulling it on - not to say it wasnt hard to do... Didnt have to use heat or anything though. Just make sure you put the drive end in first...

exactly how mine went on. they were the black/grey ones.

 

[Wrenches of Death]

How about the slime that would build up under the covers on all the old aluminum housing guns. The boots were always hard and a totally different color then when they were lovingly installed years before..........

sorry, just took a ride back in time to another place....so long ago......
I'm back now.
Rob

And even further back, think how nasty smelling the leather ones would get after absorbing years of sweat, oil, shop floor dirt, blood, and coolant.

You could go on vacation for a couple of weeks, come back and open your box and pull that impact out and sometimes it'd be covered with a massive mold or yeast colony. You created LIFE!

After a decade or so, the leather would start to flay like the hide on road kill. You'd ask the tool guy to get you another one but all he had anymore was one of those plastic ones.

The magic was gone.

WoD