SIDE SKIRTS!

[Kofkof_00]

YAY! So I come home to find UPS has delivered the first piece of my FMS body kit. The side skirts.

How hard are they to install? Am I better off getting a professionnal body shop to do?

I remember DJ (RIP I still can't quite wrap my head around that concept) saying he had 2-way taped & riveted his.

2-way tape I know, rivets i know less.

[25Horseplay]

2 way tape along the center and either rivet or screw the ends and along the bottom would be the way I would do it.

[Kofkof_00]

25horseplay, 2 way tape along the centre, like the whole lenght wise? (rivets sound more permanent) I have to go read the "how to paint sticky"

[Sho_tyme_psi]

3M 2side tape is the berries and works great.

[25Horseplay]

Yes, along the whole center section under the doors. Then secure the ends with some screws or rivets.

[Kofkof_00]

Sooooo the 3m 2-way tape the lenght of the lip that fits under the door, then some rivets (or screws, but in my case, rivets) @ both ends.

[25Horseplay]

^^Yes

[Kofkof_00]

Ok. I read Mattswab's paint sticky. Going to start by painting them. Maybe a test fit on ivory, as ebony is in the shop getting new cv's & breaks, & clutch, & a head gasket.

Then 3m lenghtwise, rivets front & back & some more 3m on the rear side.

[Sho_tyme_psi]

keep up posted with pics,looking forward to seeing it

[Sleeper]

Remember to use stainless screws!!!

You don't want to go to all of that work onky to have rusty screw showing!

[Kofkof_00]

Uh, Why Stainless? Are rivets stainless?

[skeeters_keeper]

^^use aluminum rivets... or you can prolly get stainless rivets but alum is much more common i think.

[Kofkof_00]

So I got 2 cans of generico black. looked high & low for ford black, no luck. I also picked up 2 rolls of heavy duty 2 way exterior use tape. It's scotch & not 3m but I don't think that it should make too much of a difference. I also got a can of primer & 2 cans of clear. Some emery paper 200 & 1000 grit.