Bad rust on seal between passenger floor panel and firewall.
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From: Vickery, OH
This is not my thing but see if you can get a replacement panel cut it to the size you need and braze it in yourself or find a guy in Craig’s list to do it.
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I don’t know what size this thing is or if you have any metal supply places but get some sheet metal cut it and fix it the same way a good place to ask about freelance welders also.
It may not be perfect but it’s a fix just paint it or cover it with some good antirust stuff undercarriage paint/tar
A fiberglass patch and bondo may be a good temp fix for a year or two also.
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I don’t know what size this thing is or if you have any metal supply places but get some sheet metal cut it and fix it the same way a good place to ask about freelance welders also.
It may not be perfect but it’s a fix just paint it or cover it with some good antirust stuff undercarriage paint/tar
A fiberglass patch and bondo may be a good temp fix for a year or two also.
Believe me I would if I could, I do or at least try to do all the work on this truck. But I'm just getting more and more busy and can't really set aside time to work on it. I filled it in will some bondo and automotive sealer so it should hold up till May. Not like it gets driven much except when I'm home on break.
I'll probably get recommendations from the "family mechanic" (Guy helped build & lived in the house before selling it to the previous owners we bought it from) for guys who do good work. I really only trust him and whoever he recommends to have work done on it. (I'm really overprotective of the truck lol)
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It's really not a hard thing to do, depending on where it is in the floor. I mean theorietically you could braze it in as dakaz suggested, or use an oxy torch with a welding tip to fuse the panel in. It's just sheetmetal (and under carpet no less), there's a thousand different ways to work it in.
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Oh yeah it's defiantly not that hard.
Just a matter of getting my hands on the right tools and time.
I'm still not completely sure how big it is I still have to remove a lot of the rust in order to see how big it really is.
Just a matter of getting my hands on the right tools and time.
I'm still not completely sure how big it is I still have to remove a lot of the rust in order to see how big it really is.
