RESOLVED: Back Glass trim attached with rivets?

Does anyone have experience with this? I’ve done some searching and not finding anything.

I have new moldings for the back glass. The lower weather strip/belt molding is simple with clips. The upper molding appears to be attached with a rivet?

I’m wondering how to remove the rivet? And then, how to attach new molding?

Would love any help or experience you can offer. I’m not familiar with this one. Thank you

 

You can likely drill out the center of the rivet with a small drill bit, and then use a thin punch to separate the "head" of the rivet to the "shank". Then use a pop rivet gun to reattach new rivets. Do you have access to the other side of the rivets?

I've done this lots of times on aluminum canoes and fishing boats. Not positive that it'll work for those rivets, but that's worked for me in the past.

 

Seems that there are 14 of those rivets you will need to deal with. Part number is 90269-04048.
You may be able to use a standard hand held rivet gun to install them. Those are not that expensive.
Rivets are generally removed by drilling them out, but you want to make sure that you don't punch through the rivet and then have inertia take you right through the outer body. So something to limit the depth of drilling would be advised.

 

Great thank you. I’m connecting the dots now. I was thinking I needed access to both sides of the panel to install the rivet. I was thinking of some grommets and similar I’ve used on other projects. I have not used rivet guns before. Maybe once 25+ years ago, can’t even recall. Not in a way that I figured it out like I should have.

It looks like a basic rivet gun will handle this. I’ll confirm some specifics tomorrow. I think you guys nailed it. Thank you for holding my hand and being patient with some of us new guys. Great help as always.

@Fragman, are you using the parts look up linked in the main sticky thread? I’m seeing different schematics on different sites/dealers. Some are better than others

 

Yup. this site. https://toyota-usa.epc-data.com
If you use your VIN where it asks you for your frame number, it will give you the parts specific to your vehicle.

 

Thank you

 

Exactly as you guys said. Drill out the rivet, install new rivet. Embarrassing now how easy it was. But those rivets threw me off. New molding looks good

Appreciate again your help and patience

 

Nice dude! Looks good.

 

Nice job!