Exactly, bend up the old plate at the ends, screw the new on top of the old.
Use shallow screws so they don't hit the body. Plates are soft aluminum,
rusted screws that won't come out are steel, much easier to make new holes in
the plates.
Crude but effective, faster, and if needed I can
On Sat, July 4, 2020 12:59 pm, OK Don via Mercedes wrote:
> If you are going to "punch some new holes" with a drill, just drill out
> the old screws and be done with it ...
I think he was talking about punching holes in the old plate and screwing
the new to the old. But I don't know how to do
If you are going to "punch some new holes" with a drill, just drill out the
old screws and be done with it ...
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 10:01 AM Max Dillon via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> The fasteners holding the plate won't come loose, and I've got to put a
> new plate on. Soaked
The fasteners holding the plate won't come loose, and I've got to put a new
plate on. Soaked them for a few days with Kroil, but these fasteners seem to
be corroded in place. They were hardware store bought, and that particular
store did not have the screws in stainless steel.
I think I'm
