Door threshold fixings and wheel nut colours, Trying to establish the correct fixings and colour Options

[Bibble]

Hello all, I rather foolishly forgot to take any pictures of the fixings for the door sill aluminium strip (the wide one not the narrow one inside the car) when I took it off about 18 months ago. My car is an October 1971 - 1.7. I know there are pop rivers holder the lower edge on to the car but what goes at the top underneath the door opening seal? Is it rivets again or a small self tapping screw? If it is rivet what colour is the river? And what colour are the lower ones? I understand white on later cars ? But that would seem to clash with the aluminium colour as would Black that hold the rocker on.

Also, what colour were the wheel nuts originally? I have pendrini alloys in silver with black bolts. But the paint on the bolts looks very much a more recent home addition......

Any advice on either subject very welcome (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Best wishes

Jonathan

[FlacaProductions]

check this thread:
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=262175

Rivets available here:
https://900designs-container.zoeysite.com/r...lack-aluminum-1

[Tom_T]

check this thread:
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=262175

Rivets available here:
https://900designs-container.zoeysite.com/r...lack-aluminum-1

I would recommend against using the metal/aluminum rivets on your door sills, & instead use the plastic ones, which are easier to cut off with a razor blade, whereas you'll have to drill out the metal types, which is a royal PITA.

The reason is that you'll need to remove your rockers every few years to clean out the dirt which builds up behind the rockers, & then it holds moisture against the longitudinals & causes rust holes (if you drive a lot then do it at least yearly).

Rocker removal requires that the sills have to come off first & then be remounted. So save yourself a future hassle of drilling, & buy a few sets of plastic rivets plus a few spares each set for a few rocker cleaning projects.

The past repaints on my `73 had replaced plastic with typical silver color aluminum pop-rivets, which was indeed a load more work to remove for my current resto/renovation project. Drilling, removing & replacing rivets is a ton of work, & I have more than enough of that BS to do on our riveting aluminum skin 1960 Avion trailer (like an Airstream), thank you very much, & don't want to add 914 rocker rivets to that to do list!
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914Rubbber has the plastic ones shown in the post above.

Cheers! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
Tom
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