How To Remove Vin Rivets

Be placed on the vehicle in place of the original thatll really help if you ever go to sell the car. I would try to cut the rivets from underneath then glue it or something similar to the new dashkeeping the heads of the original rivets intact.

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Then with pliers you gently squeeze the tube a little gradually compression its diameter so the rivet can be removed.

How to remove vin rivets. If I remember the rivets that attach the vin plate to the body are not normal pop rivets. Discussion Starter 1 Jul 20 2010. And use a PIN VISE hand drill to remove the old head.

To remove the OLD VIN PLATE - carefully center punch the old rivot. Put a small amount of epoxy around the barrel part of the rivet and push the rivet through the trim tag into the firewallcowl. Get frame powder coated 4.

Similar to standard open pop rivets structur. PIN VISE Hand drills are cheap and can be picked up at a hobby shop. I was watching a television show last night and it mentioned issues some DMVs have with the rivets on the door post having been changed.

With a fine punch you can usually knock the mandrel out of the center of the rivet sometimes a little grinding is necessary on the tube end just to relieve it enough for the mandrel to come out. Where the normal pop rivet has a round head the special rivets for the vin. Encountered which includes method of attachment at best the tag is seized and a state tag will.

IMO it would be hard for DMV to prove that a 69 Chevelle as an example had the VIN tag removed for restoration and reattached if you had the correct rivets. The nail doesnt usually breakso you will need to remove the gun and push the nail back thru. Ie give a rebuilt title.

I do it by drilling a hole thru the center of the new rivetsgrinding down a small nail until it entirely fits up to the head into the end of a rivet gun usually using the larger hole in the gun and then pulling the nail until it squeezes the rivet. Jump to Latest Follow 1 - 5 of 5 Posts. Where can a person find replacement rivets for the VIN plate.

1 The easiest way is to merely epoxy the rivets in place do not use super glue. In this video our resident fastener specialist talks about how you can remove installed structural pop rivets. VIN tag rivets.

It is illegal to remove or alter the vin of a motor vehicleShould an altered vin be. If the rivets werent available we just used regular aluminum rivets of correct diameter. Used to be able to get the rivets from some manufacturers dont know if you still can.

Put the rivets in the holes gently tap on the dome inside the rivet to flare out the bottom and lock it in place. Could cause issues should you ever sell it. Jun 15 2011 6.

Drill out old rivets 2. Joined Sep 11 2008 2973 Posts. What size was used originally.

Careful about using aftermarket rivetssome states will give you a very hard time about that when they do a vin verification. As long as you are not commiting fraud it is not a problem transferring the Vin tag. Reinstall VIN plate with new blind rivets pop rivets as a second option Seems simple enough if my process is correct.

Try this place out. You can get much smaller diameter drill bits and move up thru the size until you just remove. Just because they believe that it had been removed and replaced I doubt the cars referred to in my initial post would be subjected to the state issued VIN numbers.

Heres how to do it.

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