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So i finally got my lazy rear in the garage to finish pulling the carpet out, which was the last of the interior that got pulled a year ago. Well i got the passenger side up and there was only two dime sized holes in the floor. I was quite excited about this, so i proceded on to the drivers side and boy i got a surprise. The floor from the front seat mount bolts to right before the pedals came right up with the carpet :shock: Not cool. So now i gotta fawk around with that before i start on the cage. Oh well, anybody got any tips besides just welding in some 18-20 gauge to fix it? Thanks derek

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i had a similar thing hapen with my old malibu. i just bent up some old sheet metal from a shelfing unit i "took" apart. rustolem-ed the floor and sheet metal and rivited it in place worked real well wasnt pretty but redneck engineering at its best.

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BTW, we didn't weld any metal in. We got some good body shop glue, in the tube, that we gooped :roll: on the patch panels. Used a few rivets to hold in place till it dryed. The excess that squeezed out helped sealed the joint from any future moisture- hopefully.

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Same thing on mine too, Fred Flintstone-mobile :D Plus, the rust had started eating out the tranny tunnel under the seat where it met the floor. I cut some pieces of good floor out of a junkyard MJ, and added a sheet of 22 ga steel from Lowe's and instead of riveting, I used 1/8" sheet metal screws ('bout a zillion of them). I used commercial flashing sealant to "glue" the pieces in, then zipped them in with the screws. I blasted the underside with 2 cans of undercoating, and used spray on bedliner inside to do the entire floor.

 

Not something I ever want to do again, fer sure!

 

Jeff

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