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redoing floors, have a few ?'s

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Old 02-09-2009, 06:33 PM
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drilled out the spot welds holding the center hump thing that holds the front of the seats up. replaced one floor pan section, doing the other on next week.

I only did the rear half of the drivers side floor, the front half is mint. Back was bad because of T-top leak

My question is: some of the spot weld holes got drilled all the way through the floor pan on the tranny hump. Holes are 3/8 diameter. What is the best way to fill the holes so I can re-spotweld the crossmember hump back on?

Should I try and "fill" the whole thing with weld? or use small pieces of sheetmetal underneath the floor to help "bridge" the gap then grind it down on both sides? I am a pretty good welder, but haven't done much body work before.

Here is what I have done so far. Not finished yet, but you get the idea

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someone must know or have an idea!
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Old 02-10-2009, 11:44 AM
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I'm no expert but I think it would be better to cut the space open a little more and use a pice of metal in the gap that fits nice and tight then weld it up. I wouldn't stack the metal I think it would rust faster. thats just an idea.
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