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| | | | Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 51 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 51 | I got my new parking lenses for my 64 GMC. The lenses are attached to the bucket with a type of rivet, but what are these called? The ends need to be flared, and I could do it with a punch or something, but I'm sure there's a tool to do it. I just don't know what they are called. A picture's worth a thousand words: http://captaincheeto.com/pictures/64-gmc/misc/IMG_8862_1024x768.jpg
There is one place that you have not looked, and it is there - only there - that you shall find the master. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 800 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 800 | Stainless nuts and bolts and some Loctite. Life is too short to worried about stuff like this. | | | | | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,552 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,552 | Those are buck-rivets. With a bucking bar, which has a small divoted end, to match the head of the rivet, and an air hammer, as well as, another pair of hands, you can set those, to look like the originals. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 51 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 51 | Thank you and thank you. k10 - it's one of those things that would bug me to the end of time if I didn't know what they were. Of course I thought of nuts and bolts. But then I'd have to make 3 trips to Home Depot and 2 to Ace Hardware to finally get the right stuff.  4-5-6 I am surprised there is no hand tool that can to it in one shot, it seems like something that someone would have come up with by now. But I guess there probably aren't too many of these being used today. I think I'll try my hand at setting them by hand with what I have around, and if not go the nut/bolt route. I have some blind rivets, but there's a chance of cracking the plastic with those.
There is one place that you have not looked, and it is there - only there - that you shall find the master. | | | | | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,552 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,552 | Bucking rivets is a lost art, but they are still used extensively in the aviation and marine industries, but primarily in a production environment, thus tools for doing high volume. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 51 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 51 | Was pretty much a piece of cake. I had to drill out the holes in the buckets because the new rivets were bigger than the old. The rivets were simple because - duh - they are aluminum. I just used a center punch and a rivet plate I had from some leatherworking snaps. Worked like charm. New sockets and bulbs too. Pics: http://captaincheeto.com/pictures/64-gmc/turnsignals/
There is one place that you have not looked, and it is there - only there - that you shall find the master. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | Good job. IF they had been real hard I was going to suggest you may be able to do it on a press. It looks great. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 95 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 95 | Nice job on the re-do. This post makes me wonder why such a different approach on assembly, that is, GMC vs Chevy? It's so easy to service anything on a Chevy, and with basic tools, But GMC has plastic lenses that are RIVETED in place??
I've never owned a GMC so I must ask, is the whole truck this way? | | |
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