1989 2.8L V6. I have a bad coil. I buy a new coil, plug it in, test it, problem solved. Great.

What the? Are those rivets? My *** what kind of a sick joke is this?

It would appear that my coil is held in on the 4 corners by 4 rivets. There is no apparent way to undo them. The little brackets my new coil came with seem to correspond with the old ones, but where I have bolts, it has rivets.......

Is this stock? Or some sadistic mechanics idea of a joke?

Die grinder to the heads of the rivits, and install long skinny bolts with nuts on them. It sucks, and it pissed me off too.

What he said!!!!!!!!!!

As long as it's not just me Thought maybe some mechanic put them in before I got the car as some kind of way to keep the customer coming back.

OK, think my dremel's got what it takes? or should I borrow my wifes dads hammer drill?

You can knock them out with a regular hammer and a small pin punch. This was the way that GM made the ignition coils back then.

What were they thinking? Well I guess it makes it so I might want to buy a new one

i use a chisel to cut the heads off & then the brackets lift pretty easily

A drill with a bit just wider than the pin works great to remove the head, but I suppose a die grinder or Dremel would work just as well.

Thanks for all the suggestions guys, I'll get over to a spot where I can get an extension cord out to it this weekend, and either drill it or dremel it out. Thanks again

Foiled again!

Well not to turn this thread into something besides the subject, I'll start a new one.

Rivets removed with a combination of tinsnips, wirecutters, channel locks, needle nose pliers, and linemans pliers.

Metal was easy enough to tear up enough to get it to push out the other side.

Mostly due to my lack of ability to get an extension cord out to my car. (We don't have garages in south florida LOL)

use a hammer and chisel thats what i did when i put my msd coil in

Dude, its allot easier to take the coil out of the car before you work on getting the rivets out.

Depends on my 2.8 it was going to be a long job to get the coil bracket off. Just hit it with a die grinder and pulled em out. Took about 5 minutes to remove and reinstall.