Riveting Restoration
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Burning Brakes
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Riveting Restoration
Here are some pics of the wiper door assembly restoration. If you ever do this....take lots of pics!
Click on pics for larger view...
Before...with PB Blaster for several days. This thing was frozen!
Pile of rusty rivets!
The tool you can rent (or buy for $95). Let's rent!
Results...
...and another.
There is the consensus by some vendors that you only need 16 rivets (in the kit) to complete this job. Wrong. It takes 18.
:party:
[Modified by Chris81, 3:45 PM 10/11/2003]
Click on pics for larger view...
Before...with PB Blaster for several days. This thing was frozen!
Pile of rusty rivets!
The tool you can rent (or buy for $95). Let's rent!
Results...
...and another.
There is the consensus by some vendors that you only need 16 rivets (in the kit) to complete this job. Wrong. It takes 18.
:party:
[Modified by Chris81, 3:45 PM 10/11/2003]
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Burning Brakes
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Re: Riveting Restoration (79VetteMike)
BTW-what does that tool do?
:cheers:
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Re: Riveting Restoration (427V8)
Looks very nice. Should work very nicely when you get it back together. BTW, where did you come up with the tool?
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Re: Riveting Restoration (Chris81)
very nice work, i'll be looking forward to doing that on my 69 here pretty soon. i'll probably powder coat my parts, but its costly and takes time...what type of paint did you use?
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Burning Brakes
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Re: Riveting Restoration (Eddie 70)
Tnx!
Eddie 70 - Rented the tool from Paragon Reproductions. $15 for 10 days.
427V8 - There are seven on each end and four for the middle support bracket (that's the one that started all this...part of that bracket was broken and I found a used assembly).
Redshark - I just used gray primer and black satin enamel and will clear coat everything to add some durability.
(Tidbit) There's no way to get the support brackets off the main rod unless you grind the welds off the ends, so if you ever break a bracket, it's pretty much over... I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has done it and got the end link realigned properly. It would be nice to have been able to replace the three rod bushings as well, but I didn't even see those as being available (I would have just slit it and slipped it around the rod - once the brackets are on them, they wouldn't come off).
:cheers:
Eddie 70 - Rented the tool from Paragon Reproductions. $15 for 10 days.
427V8 - There are seven on each end and four for the middle support bracket (that's the one that started all this...part of that bracket was broken and I found a used assembly).
Redshark - I just used gray primer and black satin enamel and will clear coat everything to add some durability.
(Tidbit) There's no way to get the support brackets off the main rod unless you grind the welds off the ends, so if you ever break a bracket, it's pretty much over... I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has done it and got the end link realigned properly. It would be nice to have been able to replace the three rod bushings as well, but I didn't even see those as being available (I would have just slit it and slipped it around the rod - once the brackets are on them, they wouldn't come off).
:cheers:
