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[Z06] Anyone install APSIS splash guards with Rivets?

Old 02-01-2012, 04:14 PM
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Default Anyone install APSIS splash guards with Rivets?

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I'm about to install my ZR1 side skirts using rivets, and was curious if anyone had installed their splash guards using them as well?

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Cody
Old 02-01-2012, 04:16 PM
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Originally Posted by RedZ-06
As the title says...

I'm about to install my ZR1 side skirts using rivets, and was curious if anyone had installed their splash guards using them as well?

Thanks,

Cody
I wouldn't recommend it. You want them easily removable.

Bill
Old 02-01-2012, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Bill Dearborn
I wouldn't recommend it. You want them easily removable.

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Old 02-01-2012, 06:15 PM
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I remember someone installed them with the plastic push bolts.
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In order for a rivet to work, the head of the rivit has to be pulled against a hard object (metal). Against fiberglass, the rivet will just pull through.
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Originally Posted by 383vett
In order for a rivet to work, the head of the rivit has to be pulled against a hard object (metal). Against fiberglass, the rivet will just pull through.
Not completely true...you can use little aluminum washers behind the fiberglass. They work pretty good too.

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