Mechanix choice has had fastener assortments....or as Knope says...zippies!

 

Yeah, I found those. I'm just looking for something a little "better" I'm tempted to try nutserts and bolts, if I can find someone that I can borrow a nutsert tool from.....

 

They be called Speed nuts or Tinnerman nuts, see wikipedia
and mcmaster.com
should be dozens of styles, common as nails at auto parts stores everywhere.

 

No, I'm aware of those. That's what's holding on the 6 (or is is 8??) regular phillips-head screws that attach the front and sides of the pan. I have a large assortment of those, picked up cheap from a local hardware store. I'm talking about the 2 plastic push-in rivet thingies that hold the very back onto the steel crossmember.

The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that a "Nutsert" also called a "rivet nut" is the answer. Like these It would allow use of a threaded steel bolt, perhaps a button head Torx, or even just a plain old hex head bolt to be used there. I just don't know if it is worth shelling out the $$ for the installation tool for those. McMaster-Carr is awesome in that they have almost everything you could ever need, and it's all high quality, but they are also very expensive. Other sources have the tool a lot cheaper, probably good enough quality for the very occasional use I'd have for one. I don't do enough fabrication (yet) to justify purchasing one. Hopefully I can find someone locally who has one I can borrow for a day. I think it would be a great solution.