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Rear Fender Liner Blind Rivet Fasteners: How Do You Remove?!

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How you doing?

Usually these ”blind rivet” fasteners come out by pushing the center pin in. These ain’t coming out. The center pins wont go in even with a hammer and punch.

Do you drill these out like big blind rivets in metal framing and so on?

Help?

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OK, I ended up drilling them out. This looks like Ford trying to keep peeps from working on their own vehicles.

Dave in Austin

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