Hi, tried this first over in the paint and body section this morning, so thought I'd try the larger audience over here in C3.

I read through the various posts and the Wilcox paper on the procedure and everything is going great. Drilled the rivets from underneath, header bar popped right off and then used Dremel to make a quarter sized hole in the bonding strip to dig out the rivet remnants. Immediately the bumps on the hood settled down somewhat.

Now at the stage of trying to decide if getting the bumps the rest of the way down and reattaching the header bar is a home project or let the body shop finish off the job. I'm looking at the very last couple up bumps on the outside ends and wondering how hard is it going to be to get a clamp and pressure on the surface with angle of the body on the sides. Any home shop tips on getting these things to settle all the way flat again? Would like to see them down ahead of reattaching the bar, unlike the Wilcox directions that say to just let the pressure of the clamps putting the header bar in take care of it. What happens if the adhesive fills the holes and the pop does not lay down flat?

There seems to be some success out there attaching the header bar back in with two part marine adhesive, and West System Six10 being recommended in several threads I came across. I picked up a couple tubes while work had me near the store and have 30 days to decide whether to use them or not. Needing to buy a gun for the fusor/3m stuff ruled those out for this one time project. Any opinions here on trying out the Six10?

http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs...w#.UBVWTpaDl8E

 

I just used a board and a BUNCH of clamps. They all went down for me.