C3 shift console & reinforcement

[Brandon Metzger]

I am installing an aftermarket shift console forn Corvette America in my '72 vette. My original was shot and the reinforcement bar was missing so I do not know how it was installed. I have bought a new reinforcement bar and am trying to get it installed correctly.

On page E5 of the assembly manual they so that the reinforcement(part number 3918660) is fivetied onto the shift console. The picture has "delete" writen and circled on the lower edge rivits.

Are these rivits not suppose to be in or are they used?

Thank you,
Brandon

[Wayne P.]

Re: C3 shift console & reinforcement

Rivets go in the front upper edge of the console. Expanded side down. Align the bracket holes with those in the front sides of the console.

[Brandon Metzger]

Re: C3 shift console & reinforcement

Thank you Wayne.
What about the side. On the reinforcement bar there is an oval hole on each side that corresponds with a hole on each side of the console. Do rivits go there as well. The assembly manual has them but then has the word "delete" writen in and circled. I would think that the rivit would go there as well to help hold this in place or does the screw that conects it to the body suffice?

Thank you
Brandon

[Brandon Metzger]

Re: C3 shift console & reinforcement

Wayne,
How do you install these rivits without breaking the console. I just tried to get one in and broke the hole. Now I have one good hole at the top and two on the side. I don't want to break this any more, these consoles aren't cheap.

Thanks,
Brandon

[Brandon Metzger]

Re: C3 shift console & reinforcement

Sorry guys. I ment to have this under the link I posted a week or so back.
If anyone has a suggestion though I will be happy to take it.

Brandon