Rear floor pans

[RyanWilson]

My new rear floor pans are in the mail, and should arive this week sometime. Does anyone have any advice, warnings or anythign else I should know before I start??? Thanks! Ryan

[brixtonmorris]

dont cut the metal from the rear seat to the foor panel off you car. the new panel has it on it, cut this to the required hight and remove only the rusty area from that seat pannel. the new panel tempts you to remove all the metal from the car, watch out, dont do it. prop shaft side pull floor pan and new piece together with small nut/bolts. take them out and fill in the holes with weld. cross member, top edge clean and ready to sit new panel on. door side where ever makes a good weld depending how much the rust has travelled up. if you cut inner edge of box section out,watch out for twisting. a nice weld can be made at the top corner. watch out for heat expansion, dont do long continious welds get it all in the right place before you start welding. have fun welding the panel to the rest of the floor under the seat, oh yes dont set fire to enything in the seat area and you seat belt dont forget to weld the nut on the panel if it not there already

[RyanWilson]

Thanks brixtonmorris!!!!

I'm going to get started once I'm finnished with soccer (sorry, football) tryouts at the highschool. So I will probably get aroud to it Saturday! Thanks for the advice! Ryan

[rupert]

I did the floors on my car and boy it was fun!
piccies here:

www.littleyellowcar.co.uk

I would recomened screwing the panels in with self tapping screws before you start, then you don't find yourself needing 7 hands!

good luck!

Rupert

[Scott]

Brilliant website Rupert!!!
Should be a top car when it's all finished.
These rust repair photos really put our cars to shame. Here, we wouldn't even consider doing this much work on the body of a sedan.