Replacing Whole Car Floor

If you ve decided to replace the whole floor you ll be drilling out a lot about 50 spot welds.

Replacing whole car floor.

On any repairs that require welding cover all the glass on the car and on any other cars in the workshop where you re working. Once you ve decided on full or partial panels the floor can be removed accordingly. Save as much good original metal on the car as you can. Weld spatter travels far and will bury itself into the surface of any glass it hits you can get it off with an acrylic scraper but the glass will be permanently pitted.

In some states a vehicle will not pass inspection if it has a hole in the floor and having this repaired by your local auto mechanic can cost you hundreds of dollars. We set out to show the different ways you can fix a floor using this 1960 pontiac catalina where severe rust and rot had damaged its floorpans and trunk floor. Check to ensure that the floor pan is still in place that there are no gaps and that it is still aligned. Place your tacks on both the interior and exterior sides of the floor pan.

Tack the floor pan into place with a series of spot welds place eight to 12 inches apart around the perimeter of the floor pan. On todays video we go through the steps to restore the floor boards on your classic car 4x4 or daily driver. So whether you are restoring an old hot rod or trying to get another year of service out of an old car fixing the hole in the floorboard can be done. By madcat x1 len gates in the uk provided this important caution.