View Single Post
Old 08-18-2015, 07:15 AM   #7
kitsbeach
Senior Member
 
kitsbeach's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Vancouver, BC
Posts: 472
Re: 1967 No Frills LWB Fleet

It would have been nice to have a cutting torch and a lift to remove the old rear suspension parts, but i don't have one. My neighbours are pretty close and were complaining about all the banging and grinding.

My air chisel was also not a good one so I ended up smashing rivets off with a cold chisel after either grinding them or drilling them first depending on access and angle.

Not one bolt came off in the normal way, every one had to be cut with a cutting wheel, which also meant I had to cut the coil springs to be able to reach the bolts.

I looked around on this forum for the easiest way to cut the rivets but there is no easy way. Each rivet took a long time. The best was drilling with a small drill then a 3/8 drill and pounding it out.

Here is the panhard bracket before:

Name:  021-Photo 2015-06-16, 7 39 57 PM.jpg
Views: 567
Size:  35.6 KB

Here it is half way off:

Name:  026-Photo 2015-06-17, 10 11 20 PM.jpg
Views: 571
Size:  44.1 KB

Even with the bracket off the darn rivets are still hanging in:

Name:  027-Photo 2015-06-17, 10 12 46 PM.jpg
Views: 567
Size:  42.0 KB
__________________
Kitsbeach (Ken)

1967 C10 LWB (now SWB) Fleetside 6cyl Saginaw three-on-the-tree "No Frills"
kitsbeach is offline   Reply With Quote