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Spriteman65

Spriteman65

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I'm installing a new top on my car. Just drilled out the old rivets in the seal retainer. Do most of you leave the leftover rivet pieces in the header rail or do you try and remove? I was thinking about drilling a 3/8" hole in an inconspicuous location and shakeing them out.
 
You can leave them in as they dont make any noise bouncing around. If you do drill, get to home depot and find a plastic plug to fill in the hole.
 
I drilled a bigger hole no plug, just located it under the aluminium rail
 
Thanks for the information, I think I will leave them in for now (adds character). I have another question. When attaching the top to the header rail, what type of adhesive is used or do I just mechanically fasten under the seal retainer? The old top seemed to have some adhesive on it that had long since failed and was only held on with the seal retainer rivets. I assume some sort of contact adhesive that would not bleed thru the top?

Thanks
Jeff
 
I just used contact cement
 
Spriteman65 said:
... When attaching the top to the header rail, what type of adhesive is used or do I just mechanically fasten under the seal retainer? The old top seemed to have some adhesive on it that had long since failed and was only held on with the seal retainer rivets. I assume some sort of contact adhesive that would not bleed thru the top?

Thanks
Jeff
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I like 3m super adhesive (3m part 08008) works for everything!
 
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