David, I gave a bit of an extensive detail about 2 weeks ago on replacing the rag joint in a Scout. Search the back issues or, I'll give it to you all over again off line. _____Dan Nees_____ [email protected] 3 Scout's, one shotgun, 20/20 vision. http://members.tripod.com/~IHCaholic/scoutindex.html http://www.triplediamond.org