Replacing Whole Car Floor

Once you ve decided on full or partial panels the floor can be removed accordingly.

Replacing whole car floor.

Place your tacks on both the interior and exterior sides of the floor pan. Check to ensure that the floor pan is still in place that there are no gaps and that it is still aligned. Save as much good original metal on the car as you can. 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.

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

Install full floor panels. By madcat x1 len gates in the uk provided this important caution. The parts supply and quantities used in liste. The common repair method is to trim the old and new create a stepped flange around the perimeter of the replacement panel and install it with a lap weld because butt welding is difficult.