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| | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 443 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 443 | I have started to strip my front fenders on my 57.The front fender extentions that bolt to the inner fender/radiator support area are riveted to the fender edge. I don't remember seeing rivets like these before. They are steel and have a cap head like a carrage bolt head. Anyone know where I might buy these and the rivet gun to put them in with?
1957 Chevrolet 1/2-ton Stepside LB in the Gallery My Photobucket shots The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) | | | | | Joined: May 2007 Posts: 275 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2007 Posts: 275 | You don't. You will have to replace the rivets with bolts and nuts or weld up the holes and use self tapping screws.
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No better smell than that of fresh paint. I've been building and painting cars/trucks for 47 years. Not gonna stop now. http://www.coxcustomcars.com/ | | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 443 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 443 | I guess it will be weld them up. They are in the front fender edge between the fender & hood edge. Bolt heads would stick out too far & hit the hood edge. Screw heads should work ok,or I could just weld the extention to the fender.
1957 Chevrolet 1/2-ton Stepside LB in the Gallery My Photobucket shots The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) | | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 | I used stainless pop rivets with a shallow head. Screws or bolts will stick up too far and contact the hood.
Bill Burmeister
| | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,878 . | | . Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,878 | McMaster Carr sells a lots of different solid rivets. http://www.mcmaster.com/ If McMaster does not have the size you need then http://www.bigflatsrivet.com/ often does, but they cost more. I see no reason why you should not re rivet them as they were originally. I have replaced many solid steel rivets in different cars, including 3/8" frame rivets in my 2 ton. with some simple home made tools and a torch you can do it yourself. Try searching for "rivets", as I think I have explained how to install "hot rivets" before on this site. The smaller ones can be worked cold in the same way. Grigg | | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 443 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 443 | Thanks Grigg for the McmMaster web page. It will be easier than I thought. Rivets sure beats welding it to the fender. 
1957 Chevrolet 1/2-ton Stepside LB in the Gallery My Photobucket shots The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) | | |
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