Right now, I'm in a wtfmydoin? sort of mind.
I might need counseling
Got the top three painted parts on. Gotta few marks on the rh side top, half of them from packaging from Germany.
10% extra effort/more newspaper would have prevented the scratches. Oh well, there's still a shitload more paint than what was on there.
I've got the top left, top right and centre fairing pieces on, waiting to be riveted to the dash.
The rivets come nicely rolled over at one end, and need to be flared/rolled at the other end.
I need to flare them from the inside and keep the 'factory' flare to the outside. (imo?)
I had difficulty holding the slotted head countersunk bolt that I was using for a flaring tool, while tightening the nut on the outside of the fairing.
I think a recessed hex drive in a 5mm countersunk bolt/screw/whatever, will do the trick.
I know SteveD's got some good ideas that he's posted here before.
Yeah, I've done that before using the countersunk bolt and then the push fit upholstery plugs (xmas tree fasteners) from Supercheapauto.
The tool required to hold the bolt still whilst tightening the nut to cause the flaring depends on the bolt head of course. The fiddly part is getting the tool into position for the middle front bushes. I used a short phillips head screwdriver.
It might help to remove the parking light.
One hand on the tool whilst the other tightens the small nut using a ratchet. Once flared just undo and move to the next one. Once they're all done, using the #1 in above picture push fit fasteners will take less than 30 secs to mount the screen. This video shows the screen mounted, removed then remounted in less than 150secs. Try that with the oem fasteners #3 in the picture.
The only one that has fallen out was the rear most fastener. I now use a bigger size there, both sides, and the others will stay put if the bigger ones do.
If you use #2 in the picture, the bushes aren't required, but previous experience shows that the tightening torque is important as the screen will develop small cracks around the holes if slightly too tight.
I'm looking forward to the next look Jeff. Waddya planning to do with the removed fairing? Respray? Matt black would look a treat!
Thanks Steve, I'll go with the rivets since I'm a fussy ol' mole. There's a few drawers at work with about 100,000 nuts and bolts so I'll be sure to find what I need.
I guess I might just mount the old fairing on a wall in the shed. Repainting in original color would be difficult for me, it's an absolute specialist job that smoke..
I've still got Grants 507 fairing here too. I'd really hoped Jim might be interested, seeing his RS is the same color.
I will put it on ebay when I've got mine back together.
Jim made it to the Alpine this year on his RS, it was great to see the two old gals together. Unfortunately my two year old, $650 camera took a dump somewhere on the way to the rally so no pics.
