True, but only with access to the backside.In my opinion, a bolt and a nut are the best most reliable way. Way more control and feel
I could be wrong, but I think the reference was to the type of tool, not the type of fastener.True, but only with access to the backside.
I would've had to gut half of the engine compartment to use a traditional nut and bolt to install my front fender liners. To do the rear liners, the cargo area would've needed gutting and multiple access holes punched into the inner body panels.
Like most things, there's a time and a place for different types of hardware.
My post was in response to the member that suggested a nut and bolt over a rivnut and bolt.I could be wrong, but I think the reference was to the type of tool, not the type of fastener.
Surveillance footage from the last time DOOKEY was forced to go to the rivnut store...I have this one. It works well. But I hate it. I hate rivnuts. I hate installing them. I hate using them. I hate you and I hate this thread. Thanks for posting.
Rivnuts are the final boss you have to conquer to enter the 7th layer of hell.
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I know. I think he was saying that the "nut & bolt" type installation tool is preferred over the "pop rivet" style installation tool.My post was in response to the member that suggested a nut and bolt over a rivnut and bolt.
As far as the tool I used, I went the same direction as Limeade above. About $40 on Amazon for a 13" long rivnut plyer type tool that came with 10 different sized mandrels and a bag of rivnuts for each.
Good looking out! I completely forgot about that method of installing rivnuts. My years in mechanics have shown the butchery that comes from not having the proper tool at hand, so that drove me to seaking out the tool a couple years back. Not at all knocking the nut and bolt method, I'm just preprogrammed to collecting tools along life's paths. I'm sure the nut and bolt works perfectly fine.I know. I think he was saying that the "nut & bolt" type installation tool is preferred over the "pop rivet" style installation tool.