How the hell do you remove the body cladding anyway?
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JKsSyclone
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Re: How the hell do you remove the body cladding anyway?
The hardest part is drilling out metal rivets without melting the plastic cladding. You have to be very carefull and it takes some time.
The hardest part is drilling out metal rivets without melting the plastic cladding. You have to be very carefull and it takes some time.
warmpancakes
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Re: How the hell do you remove the body cladding anyway?
cut the rivets off from the back side with a pair of cutters
cut the rivets off from the back side with a pair of cutters
Re: How the hell do you remove the body cladding anyway?
This technique worked great everywhere except for the door pieces. If your doors have any rust at all, they'll be too weak to take the center punch method. Just be careful.
I found that for most of the metal rivets you can get them off without drilling at all. I just use a center punch and a hammer...and smack the center of the rivet once or twice..until its about 1"-1.5" inset. Then just use some good snips to snap the rivet head off (might take some bending around to weaken). Somethings once the center is punched up you can just rip the rivet off completely.JKsSyclone said:
This technique worked great everywhere except for the door pieces. If your doors have any rust at all, they'll be too weak to take the center punch method. Just be careful.
