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Lynne,
Are you using clecoes? I really think I couldn't do it without them. It was a matter of putting a few clecoes in, then jostling and pushing up in the center and seeing where I could put a few more in on another edge. Sometimes had to start over. I would hate to do it without clecoes.
Did you do a shell off restoration? If you had the shell off it's less likely you will have exactly the same geometry when putting it back together.
Another thing to think about is the old rivet holes in the fiberglass shell are pretty rough and oversized from years of rocking down the road. In several places you will need to drill fresh holes because the original ones won't hold a rivet anyway. I used 5/32" pop rivets to put the fiberglass endcap back in.
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