Door glass rivet

[Funship32]

Hi all. Have a seemingly stupid question for you out there. Have a '69 RR which I took the side glass (driver side door) out of and had to remove the old rivet in the process. Not a problem since I purchased new glass rivets from Yearone. However I'm trying to figure out how to punch the center push pin in on these new rivets. I get the concept of installation...install rivet, push pin in which locks the tangs into place and voila'- the window lift bracket is secured to the window. However on these new rivets, it seems as though the "pins" are one molded to the rivet housing. I tried to gently push it in with no luck. Tried to push it out with the same result- no luck. Was wondering if any of you have worked with these new aftermarket rivets and what you did to get the pin pushed in. Thanks in advance.

 

[Shuboxlover]

I used one when I reinstalled the drivers window on the 69 RR I'm restoring....Take the rivet back out, and tap lightly on the pin with a hammer so it "seats" itself, you may need to put it in a vise (don't clamp it down, but close the jaws on the vise so that the flange of the rivet is resting on the jaws)....Turn it over and push the pin back the other way. Do that a half dozen times and it should start to loosen up a bit, then you can install it in your car.

GOOD LUCK!!!

 

[Funship32]

Thanks much for the input. I'll give it a go.

 

[tallhair]

Thanks much for the input. I'll give it a go.

take some pictures please

 

[Funship32]

Okay, I figured some of my own question out. As for the rivet: I believe it is made as a one piece unit and the center pin is not user friendly like the OEM unit. Per Shuboxlover's advice and what I suspected I ended up doing was punching the pin out by supporting the rivet on a vise and using a dowel. After I did such any attempt to get the pin back in was futile IF you attempted to do an installation like the OEM version which was installed from the backside and locked into the 4 tangs of the rivet. I ended doing the following: For the cardboard which was used on the lift bracket...it was pretty much shot. So I used a styrofoam material that is used on face of LCD monitors when shipped. This is not the packing material that keeps the monitor in place in the box but more of a cover that protects the screen. Anyway it is flat an I cut it to size to fit the lift bracket. The bracket was still a little sloppy so I took some rubber from a bike inner tube to run across the bottom of the "U" channel which the window sat in. Then I put the rivet in place and pushed the pin into place from the tang side of the rivet. I will include pictures later to show how it looks.