Over the last few days I did just about all the riveting on the firewall. As is sometimes the case, some of Vans rivet callouts were quite short – especially on the steel gussets at the firewall corners. Rivets of the correct length were easy enough to squeeze, but I wasn’t always able to maneuver the squeezer to get every rivet. That left me with back-riveting some of the tough-to-reach rivets. Sometimes a little “english” was required with the back-riveting set, but everything turned out ok.

Here’s the completed firewall, with all rivets done except a couple I’ll have to buck by hand with Ellen’s help.