Restoring a vehivle wealth that you bear To excavate into every angle of the vehicle, repairing and refinishing every stuff until it's Trade-mark original. Muscle cars corner seen a surge in popularity recently, and also commonality are digging into elderly cars and trying to restore them to their former glory. One of the expanded public tasks to engage in is replacing the floor pan. This is not an apparent donkeywork and takes a crack proportions of bout to accomplish properly, however whether it's done exactly, the van is that even closer to lifetime perfectly restored. In this action, the vehicle is the regular 1969 Camaro, on the other hand the channels is the duplicate for other year Camaros too.
Instructions
1. Dehiscent both doors and establish the divide of floor that you hunger to transform. It's imaginable to convert the entire floor if need be, but you can also just replace panels or sections depending on how bad the damage is.
2. Place the replacement sheet metal panel on top of the damaged panel and mark the perimeter of the replacement panel using the permanent marker. This is going to show you where you need to chop and/or remove.
3. Locate the spot welds that secure the floor to the underlying crossmembers. These are circular dents in the sheet metal that are factory welds, so don't have a raised look as another weld would have.
4. Drill out the spot welds using the drill and spot weld cutter. Spray the replacement panel with the rubberized undercoating. This will protect the panel from rust and will also provide a small amount of sound deadening.9. Repeat the process for other holes in the floor.
Punch holes in the perimeter of the replacement panel using the pneumatic punch. You want a hole every 4 inches or so, as these will be spots where you'll be welding.
6. Place the replacement panel into the car, and align it using the marks you made previously and any marks from previous spot welds. Clamp the sheet metal to the car using the vice grips.
7. Weld the replacement panel to the floor pan using the MIG welder, welding helmet and welding gloves. You're welding the holes that you made with the punch to the floor pan, creating a plug weld that is extremely strong. Just weld the surface enough to fill the hole, no further.
8. This can be frustrating, and you may need to chop the piece out directly with the angle grinder and cut-off wheel, or with the air chisel powered by the air compressor. You want to make sure that the replacement panel will overlay old sheet metal by about 1 inch or so, to supply for a solid welding surface. This means you may have to chop inside of the marks you made previously, depending on the placement of the spot welds.5.
