{"id":1224,"date":"2009-06-20T17:21:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T17:21:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-14T22:16:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T22:16:35","slug":"riveted-fuel-tank-stiffeners-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2009\/06\/20\/riveted-fuel-tank-stiffeners-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Riveted Fuel Tank Stiffeners"},"content":{"rendered":"

My buddy Andre stopped by today to help me work on the fuel tanks. \u00a0I had a few details to wrap up before starting to use the sealant. \u00a0First up is to debur and dimple the #8 screw holes on the perimeter of the tanks.<\/p>\n

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\nThe rivets need to be cleaned by sloshing them around in some MEK.<\/p>\n

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\nI lined the area around the stiffeners with electrical tape to keep the tank sealant from making too big a mess.<\/p>\n

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\nRivets are installed in the holes and held in place with rivet tape.<\/p>\n

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\nThen the stiffeners are coated with a thin coat of sealant on the mating surface. \u00a0Here is Andre in action.<\/p>\n

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\nThey are then pressed over the rivets and back-riveted into place.<\/p>\n

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\nThen sealant is spread around the edge of the stiffener to create a filet and a dab of sealant is placed over each rivet.<\/p>\n

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\nThe fuel filler neck is then riveted on. \u00a0We tried back-riveting these using a hand-held back-rivet bucking bar, but that didn’t work as well as expected and we had to drill out one of the rivets. \u00a0Either back-rivet these on the plate or shoot\/buck them.<\/p>\n

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\nHere is the inside of the filler neck with the vent line retaining clip riveted in place.<\/p>\n

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\nWe also riveted on the fuel drain mounts. \u00a0When you dab sealant over the rivets, be sure and leave some channels so that water can make its way to the drain.<\/p>\n

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Here is the outside of the fuel drain mount. \u00a0All of these rivets could be squeezed.<\/p>\n

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\nAt the end of the day, we had both tank skins with stiffeners, drains, and filler necks in place.<\/p>\n

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My buddy Andre stopped by today to help me work on the fuel tanks. \u00a0I had a few details to wrap up before starting to use the sealant. \u00a0First up is to debur and dimple the #8 screw holes on the perimeter of the tanks. The rivets need to be cleaned by sloshing them around … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3987,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}