Hood attachment MK4

[Falcondriver]

Opinions: What is better for fastening the hood hinge to the hood? The provided rivets or riv nuts? If riv nuts what size is best?
Thanks all.

[phileas_fogg]

Take it from a guy whose painter thought riv-nuts would be a good idea, and stick with the rivets. Riv-nuts will crush & pull through the fiberglass, leaving you with hogged out holes that are useless for attaching the bracket. I'm going to have to spend a LOT of time aligning & epoxying the brackets to a finished hood.

Once you have the brackets riveted on, leave them in place for painting. They'll look like they were made to be part of the hood.


John

https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/showthread.php?45350-Help-me-fix-my-hood

[Jeff Kleiner]

Rivets. Be sure that the shank is exactly .5” long; longer will contact the underside of the top layer and make a pimple on top and shorter won’t grip securely.

Jeff

[boat737]

Rivets, and bonded with HSRF. Painted over and looks great.

[rich grsc]

You can't really use riv nuts, they will hold the bracket off the hood, leaving a gap. Everything said by Jeff and John is 100%. I have always used the method suggested by boat737, except I use a different bonding product.