I was about to give up on mine, but watching the install video done by CSS, I saw he used a pretty heavy punch to start it out. I had just about ruined the little short punch that was in my set, so I has an old heavy center punch. I didn't feel like going out to the cold garage to the bench grinder so I just filed the tip flat to about the same diamter as the small punch I was using (I didn't want the sharp point as that would expand the endaking it even harder to remove), and filed a slightly longer taper on the end. I also used a heavy mallet instead of the brass hammer or even my ball pe