Quote Originally Posted by 53 Chevy5 View Post
Two rivet holes showed up like a sore thumb, but at least it was before it was painted. So now I drilled out the rivets and put a stove bolt in instead and welded the head and put a nut on the back. Sorta like a stud now. needless to say, the fenders are no longer finished.
I got a question and I gotta ask.. you replaced the rivets with a bolt then welded that in. Why didn't you just weld the hole closed?

I'm no body guy by any stretch of some imagination!! But it just "feels" wrong to have a bolt with nut hanging in there. Wouldn't it have been easier to fit a small piece of flatstock and weld that in?

I don't mean to offend! You can tell me to go s_ _ _ in my hat, I'll understand! I'm just trying to understand why you did it this way.