I was wondering if anyone has ever used rivets on rear fender trim and cut off spot weld section? Any thoughts on doing this?

 

I'm not quite sure what you mean by that?


You want to drill out all the spot welds and put rivets in its place?

What did you hope to achieve by doing that, just wondering.

 

No I want to put rivets on the top lip and then cut off the extra which is where the spot welds are.

 

You mean u want to trim your fenders for extra clearance and rivet on the top?

 

If I understand you correctly, you want to cut off the spot welded lip and rivet the 2 panels back together? If so, that's a bad idea. the 2 panels need to be welded together.

 

superbee1970440 is it because of the movement between the two piece why rivets wont hold it together??

 

No, once u get above he spot welds the inner fender starts to roll back and the outer part goes straight up to ur windows. There will be a gap between them and with out addition of more metal I don't believe u could rivet them together an if ur going to add more metal might as well just weld them back together and be done with it.

 

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If there was enough room for rivets, it still would allow too much movement between the panels, eventually wallowing out the holes and probably cracking/tearing the panels.

 

I think some pictures would be helpful here...

 

I will post some pics tonight. Thanks for all the info guys.

 

There will probably be like 15-20 rivets in the green area.

 

Yo dawg, you're supposed to put an image URL in there, not the byte contents of the actual image. Something tells me you are using a phone.

Nobody had better quote that whole thing...

 

Ok that didnt go as planned. In the green section will be around 15-20 rivets.
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/v...G1989/jeep.png

 

 

If a picture's worth a thousand words....