LarryD

I need to sandblast and repaint front and rear crush bumper shock absorbers. From the factory they are riveted on so I was thinking I would just drill them out and get new rivets. Even though I have a heavy duty pneumatic rivet gun, some of them don't look like I have enough room to get a gun into the hole area. Anybody see a problem with just replacing the rivets with bolts instead of new rivets??? Probably a lot cheaper to use bolts since I don't even know if replacement rivets are available anyway.