If you looked through my previous pictures, you've seen that the floor boards on my driver's side were almost nonexistent. Water had gotten into the car and caused rust to the point that very little metal was left. A week or two ago, I roughly cut out the bulk of the rust with a sawzall cutting around the places where the pan was welded to the frame. Today I started to cut out the spot welds holding the remaining floor in. I've never needed to cut spot welds before, so it was a bit of a learning process. I found that for most of the spot welds, it was easier to just grind them off instead of using the spot weld drill. Because of the severe rust and pitting, it was difficult to determine exactly where each spot weld was and the spot weld bit didn't always cut where I needed. I thought I made pretty good progress.
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| I think this may be the most difficult part. This is the side of the reinforcement piece that goes over the transmission tunnel. It sandwiches the floor pan between it and the frame below. I'm guessing I'll have to remove it. |
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| Most of the floor pan is out and now you can see the frame below. Still quite a bit to go around the perimeter, but this is a great start. This pic shows how the pan is sandwiched by the transmission tunnel reinforcement piece. |
