whats the best way to go about this.?

Saph has rotted in both footwells, round the jacking points..without hunting out a scrapper with decent jacking points, whats the best way to attack it.?

I'm thinking of a plate on the inside & restoring and hole filling the underside with fibreglass rather than trying to form a panel for the underside..??

 

I'd be interested in the answer for my drivers side.

 

I'm going to go with my plan, only real downside i can think of is any future tester thinking you have just fibreglassed the repair and going nuts at it with his pokey stick trying to get through.

will get some pics up when done..

 

I done mine a couple of years ago now, my jacking points were all crushed up and because that is were the sun roof drains flow into via the sills it rots the floor pan away + a leaking bulk head grommet did not help,
all I done was scrape off the old bitumen sound deadening using a heat gun and a scraper then cut out the rotten patch and drill out all the spot welds which exposes the bent jacking point, I then hammered the jacking point back into shape from the inside treated the rust and gave it a good coat of weld through paint, cut a patch to fit and welded it back in Job done.

OH I then painted the hole floor with rust-oleum paint and stuck down some more bitumen deadening.

I will see if I still have some picks on the computer and post them up!

 

that'd be cool..not stripped back yet so didnt realise the jacking points were only spot welded on.

 

mine was plated from the inside then pimed and tiger sealed from below.

 

got me thinking about the sunroof drain now though..where does it run exactly.? Is that what the slits in the floor are for.? Bloody crazy design if you ask me..sayin that dont suppose they were thinkin 20odd yrs into the future..lol

 

they should run down into the sill i think. i'm pretty sure that there in the way if you try to take the front door's off.

i've no idea whatthose slit's are for other than rustin away!!

 

Here's what I found





Patches cut out





Area treated



Patch cut in and ready for welding



Finnished








And heres a few more pic's I found as well of the drivers seat mounting repair and the gear box tunnel, not bad for a first attempt at welding if I must say so myself.







Drivers seat mount







Hope they help in some way

 

nice work pal mine started going in the exact same places.made me cry but all sorted now

 

good effort matey, looks spot on

 

mine went in the exact same place i welded mine up from the inside and the outside smoothed it all over with the grinder and then with a buffer attachment, looks well good now it's been painted.