I have my splash guards all painted and I have the new rubber for them. I have to punch holes through the rubber in accordance with the original staple holes. My thought is to use weather strip adhesive to hold the rubber on and then once it is set to punch or drill the holes from the metal side so as to be able to use the original staple holes. Will the weatherstrip adhesive work? Is there a better way? Thanks Harv
I used bankers clasps to hold the parts together and then drilled from the back side to make the holes. I installed a staple every time the holes were done. Not the fastest way to do it but it worked.
I used pop-rivets…not concourse, but effective. Made the rubber shields out of aircraft engine baffle material, worked like a champ. “Eyeballed” the first hole, drilled it, rivet, done.
Rivets sound like that would be the easy way to go. However I am trying to do this as concourse as possible. I do have some of them butterfly clamps. I could try them.
Something about the thought of pop rivets and car restoration makes me cringe.
It’s not like it’s a structural load-bearing piece, Al! They came out quite nice, and function to their intended purpose, and were way more secure than any staple I could bend…:shrug:
BTW, pretty sure I got the idea from Royce, and I don’t think he’d do anything that would affect the safety of the car.
No it’s not that T3, this image “pops” into my head of a piece of galvanized sheet metal riveted to a quarter panel. It’s quite horrifying.
Ahhhh, gotcha…kind of like the image of having a drywaller do your bodywork…now, where have I heard that story before??