quote:Originally posted by Peter Fenlon:
Hello Doug,
is that what we call rivnuts? I have borrowed a tool and fitted some in other places on the car.
They are a smart idea, and easy to fit, I have to add that I am still unsure how they work!
Riv-nuts are the same thing, different brand.
They are essentially internally threaded pop rivets installed the same way. Then you just thread the screw into it.
You will need to enlarge the pop rivet holes to fit the riv-nut od.
They are relatively simple to do.
You really need to look twice to see they are not pop-rivets. Put a little dab of anti-seize compound on the threads with maybe a little drop of 3 in 1 oil. It is two dissimilar metals, aluminum/ss so you don't want them to react together.
If you use those plasic-plugs you can compress the lip a little tighter with the screws rather than the pop-rivets.
My car didn't have them. Probably a 74 model addition.
