Re: [doc] re attaching sills

[Martin Gutkowski - DMC Ltd <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 From memory, those rocker panels are held in with M6 rivnuts, and 
there're different flavours of rivnuts - aluminium ones and steel ones. 
You can try Jack nuts too which are slightly different and I've had 
quite a bit of luck replacing busted rivnuts with them. An example of a 
jacknut is what holds your rear numberplate bezel on.

Martin

westleymills2003 wrote:

>hi all,another question,me being stupid needed to remove my quater 
>panel last year to get a miner dent fixed,but i didnt know you can 
>remove the panel without removing the sill,so i removed the sill,wow i 
>wish i hadnt,not one screw came out without snaping or the rivnut just 
>spinning round in the fibre glass,anyway i eventuly removed it by 
>drilling all the screw heads off,
>         anyway a year later i managed to remove the riv nuts without 
>doing any damage to the fiber glass,easy peasy when you got the right 
>tools,iv now got a rivnut gun{which aparently is a really handy  tool 
>when you own a delorean,
>        now iv just realised that standard length{15mm}  M5 riv nuts 
>are not desighned for {i think the delorean fibreglass skin is 5 or 6 
>mm thick}now i know that delorean used m5 rivnuts at the factory,so 
>did they just put them in and not care or did they use longer special 
>rivnuts,
>so just wondering if anyone else is had to re attach these sills and 
>how did they do it?
>  
>




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