Recently I pulled the carpet out of my '63 roadster. I found the seatbelt hangers under the carpet, with the original carpet still under them. After a lot of liquid wrench and a large breaker bar, I removed three of the bolts. Unfortunately, the one on the outside driver's side, had to be drilled.
In my drilling fury I also drilled out the rivets to the nut plate -ooops. I was thinking it would be easier to retap the nutplate in my vice on the workbench. And so it was.
However I now need to replace the nutplate up under the floor pan. I have no idea what to do. It seems as if rivets would require removing the body from the frame in order to get a counter mass behind the rivet. There is very little room between the frame rail and the nutplate.
Any ideas?
This is not a car that will be restored to "original" any time soon. Could I use pop-rivets? bolts? etc???
Thanks,
Dwayne
In my drilling fury I also drilled out the rivets to the nut plate -ooops. I was thinking it would be easier to retap the nutplate in my vice on the workbench. And so it was.
However I now need to replace the nutplate up under the floor pan. I have no idea what to do. It seems as if rivets would require removing the body from the frame in order to get a counter mass behind the rivet. There is very little room between the frame rail and the nutplate.
Any ideas?
This is not a car that will be restored to "original" any time soon. Could I use pop-rivets? bolts? etc???
Thanks,
Dwayne
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