Working with a 56 year old vehicle, your bound to find worn or missing parts. Today, I found the latter. When I opened the hood, somethign landed at my feet. I looked around and discovered it was one of the rivets holding the hood release lever to the hood. What to do? Since I didn’t have rivets that large, I headed to\u00a0the hardware for some nuts and bolts. I needed to make sure they matched the size of the rivets so they would not get in the way of the trim when I placed it back on the car. The bolts were just a bit to big, so I reamed the hole out to make them fit and now I’m back in business. Now that that was done, back to what I originally was working on today,\u00a0priming the doors I had just sanded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Working with a 56 year old vehicle, your bound to find worn or missing parts. Today, I found the latter. When I opened the hood, somethign landed at my feet. I looked around and discovered it was one of the…
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