Window trim
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gm probably got tired of having to glue or tape new pieces on when they fell off it was a big complaint on some of the k2's
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Looks great, BTW.
Did you break [the backing of] the trim when you removed the original pieces, leaving those riveted pieces behind/attached to the truck? And did the new pieces come with a rivet post that went through a hole in the body that needed to be sandwiched from the inside of the truck?
I drilled the rivets out and they come off. I bought a rivet tool on amazon and put new rivets in
rivets are easily removed by drilling the center part a little bit and they fall apart and are easily replaced as shown in his photos been this way since forever.
original rivets may be inserted differently, pressed, etc depending on the application
ever hear the term "Rosie the Riveter"
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Last question on this (I think)... Could you have kept the existing riveted plastic mounting piece in place, and mounted the new trim without really using that point to retain the new trim? IOW, are there enough mounting points for the new trim outside of that existing riveted piece that you could have just bypassed the removal of that rivet? Maybe use some double-sided tape there like they've used forever to mount trim?
in theory you could but hard to secure it. The chrome part has clips that connects to that molding and without taking out the molding there is no way to bend the clips and secure it. In the below pic I tried to do that. The chrome part bends and goes to waist
this. I didn’t even know what a rivet was until I ran i to this. They come off very easy with a drill, literally 5 seconds of drilling
