The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Paint and Body Shop Doors Setting rivets on vent window weatherstripping

I'm getting ready to do this and just wanted to make sure I've got it right. The hollow end of the rivet goes to the inside of the vent window frame. You strike the hollow end with the cone-shaped end of the rivet setting tool. Is this correct?

I may be a little late with my reply. Not sure if your '56 vent is like my '54.

I inserted the rivet from the roll-up-window side of the vent divider. The head is on the roll-up side. The straight end with the hole is on the vent window side sticking through the new vent rubber. I locked a piece of 3/8" plate in my vice and sat the channel that the roll-up window slides in over the 3/8" plate. This provided a backer for the head of the rivet.

Stuck the pointy end of the rivet setting tool in and over the hole in the rivet and pounded away. Have someone hold the vent assembly firmly on the 3/8" plate while you hammer.

I was surprised that it was easier than I thought that it would be.

Thanks, Lonnie. In the end I decided to use glue. It worked out fine.

Lonnie, you are the lucky one! I POUNDED the rivets I received, using the tool I received, and it was a disaster. I think I was sent the wrong rivets...the ones I got were just plain to hard.

....like Joeflanagan, I glued mine and so far, so good.

How did you guys get the vent window out of the frame? Did you have to drill out the frame rivets, or did you pry the frame open enough to get the upper pin of the window out of the hole in the frame? I'm waiting on parts to do this very same job.
Jay

...what year truck,berryboats?
If your talking 51-53 era then I drilled out the pivot rivet, and then took the nut,springs/washers off the bottom of the stem that sticks through the bottom of the vent frame.....
If the vent frame is still in the door then there is a little access hole to take the stuff mentioned above off. Once your finish you put in a new rivet......which was not easy for me so I took a rivet to a neigbor machine shop and had them cut me a few "bolts" that were just like the rivets but were threaded on the end and use it instead of a pivot rivet.

Hope this helps

Mine's a '56. I took the vent window and frame across the parking lot at work and talked to the body and paint manager. He recomended drilling out the rivets and then removing the glas and frame. The re-rivet after the seal is installed.