Pickup Cab Back/Floor

[Packedup]

I'm trying to cost up the various parts for the pickup and I'm looking at panels. Ideally the cab needs new floors both sides (one side is a bit of badly fitted sheet, the other has been chopped about 3 inches from the back, and has a few holes in it anyway), and a new lower back panel.

Do the floor panels weld to the lower back panel, or do they bolt through (to what?). In the pics I think I can see holes in the lower panel that seem to line up with holes visible in the pics of the floors.

I think I know what to do about the front end, but it's the rear I now have no clue about!

[aupickup]

the van or pick up floors go through to the back of the lower panel at the rear.
they are normally just bolted on at the rear
i know a lot of guys weld them, but originally they were indeed just bolted, and seam sealer

[Packedup]

Ah, brilliant thanks

On the flat sheet side I think it might have been welded (or was going to be - there's a bad repair to the lower panel that needs chopping out and replacing with the right metalwork), and the guy doing the welding said the floor needed to be welded to the rear panel, from above and below. But then he also said the cab needed to be welded to the chassis and took a fair bit of persuading otherwise...

So the rear of the cab is floors welded to inner sills and trans tunnel, bolted to rear panel, which is welded at each end to the B posts then? Or something like that? With seam sealer (is that avoidable, as I find over time it seems to shrink, and let moisture get trapped behind it causing slow rot) along the join.

What do I need in terms of rubberwork? The pick up side of things is going to be non-original, but I take it there's a seal between the back panel and posts/ roof. Is there one for the floor as well, or any other bits I might not know about? Maybe something between the floor and chassis? I can't for the life of me see how the chassis and cab are bolted together past the area round the bulkhead, other than the little brass screws around the gearbox cover and the 2 bolts for the handbrake And I don't like the way the floors seem to sit pretty much on the chassis with no insulation or fixings...

Where the floors and rear panel bolt together, is it just nut and bolt to hold them, or do the bolts hold anything else on/ go through something else?

Sorry for so many questions, I sometimes feel this is a bit of a mammoth task considering the first time I saw a pickup in the metal was when it was boxes of bits and a chassis tied to the wall

[aupickup]

look underneath

at the back of the lower panel, and on the chassis there should be a peice of metal straddling the chassis, one on each side, this peice will have a bolt hole at either end, it projects outside the chassis by about 2" or so, the rear of the floor bolts onto this peice as well
about half way along the chassis under the floor, there is an outrigger, the same as the car jacking points but shorter, this should have a packer underneath

[Packedup]

look underneath

at the back of the lower panel, and on the chassis there should be a peice of metal straddling the chassis, one on each side, this peice will have a bolt hole at either end, it projects outside the chassis by about 2" or so, the rear of the floor bolts onto this peice as well

I seem to recall seeing a square plate on each side of the chassis with a couple of holes in it, one of the holes might be elongated? I certainly don't remember seeing anything on the back of the cab that lines up with it, which did puzzle me at the time!

about half way along the chassis under the floor, there is an outrigger, the same as the car jacking points but shorter, this should have a packer underneath

That'll be the outrigger the torsion bar arm bolts to? This packer, does it simply attach to the outrigger then have the cab rest on it, or does the cab also bolt to it?

I was against getting the cab on the chassis till it was all welded up in the first place (the cab was out of shape, but cutting out and replacing the floors is going to be a pain with it now on the chassis), but the bodywork bloke of the time wanted it on to sqare it all up. Seems that idea has gone slightly off kilter going by the lack of packing bits and mounting points currently fitted!

Any chance you could point me in the direction of the needed bits? Or pics/ diagrams of them so I know what I'm looking for and where they go?