Yea, yea, pull my "man card"! How do you get those little push pins in the fender liners to pop without busting them.

 

if ya mess with them they break.............they get brittle after a few years

 

they make a little prybar with a slit in the center to pop them out. but they still break

 

I will have to go "mid-evil" on a few of them to see if I can figure out a system.

 

They sell replacements at Autozone pretty cheap. it's worth the 5 bucks to get the satisfaction of breaking them

 

depending on the type if you look real close in the center of it theres a circular piece that looks like an insert....I used an awl, a small ice pick might work to that pushes it in, which pulls the barbs in. But most of them still break anyways from being brittle

 

They make a tool to help you remove them... It does NOT work though. Its pretty much a guarantee you will break them. You can find them on the shelf at a parts store for cheap enough though!

 

Thanks for the help!
I will be pulling out the drivers side to swap in a new lift pump and the pasenger side to clean and paint.

 

Well, it takes 18 rivets to do both front fender well liners. I ended up using Dorman part number: 799-146, and Dorman 961-050 assortment pack. If I was going to do it again I would just go with the 799-146 and trim the heads a little to fit the 3 places around the shock tower. They were cheap but I had to go to several Autozones to find them in stock.

 

After trashing mine trying to use a pin tool I replaced all of them with threaded rivets and stainless button head allen screws. Now pulling them out is easy.