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<\/a>The flanges are somewhat narrow, so I had previously ordered some K1000-06 platenuts and #6 pan-head screws from Vans. This was pretty much a seat-of-the-pants project…I just laid out some appropriately-spaced holes on the cover plate and match-drilled it to the channel.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lots of little tasks to get done over the Martin Luther King Day weekend. I took an extra day off to have a four-day weekend with nothing to do but airplane stuff…woohoo! One of the more common mods to the … Continue reading <\/a>Sorry for the fuzzy pic, but you get the general idea.<\/p>\n<\/a>After some drilling, deburring, dimpling and squeezing, the end product looks nice.<\/p>\n<\/a>I also broke open the Bondo and filled two tooling holes on the rollbar…messy work, but it’ll be nice to have no holes there when I paint the interior.<\/p>\n<\/a>I also took some time to fit the side channel covers. Nothing difficult here, except getting an angle drill in the right place to match-drill some of these holes.<\/p>\n<\/a>I also decided to add some platenuts to the channel covers, just in case I want to attach something like an iPad mount or a pivoting all-attitude beer holder<\/a>. They’re small in this picture, but if you look at the top of the channel you’ll see them.<\/p>\n