Dang it. 1992 Paperweight update.

[bigbadberry3]

Update on my paperweight. She way's a little bit less than I thought seeing how some of her floor is missing. But I tore out the carpet in hopes to find the problem areas early and fix'em. Luckily this is the only spot.



Did find a ALT /75 fuse at the junkyard and now my electronics work.
Modified by bigbadberry3 at 9:28 PM 7/26/2009

[S13Joe]

Do I see brake lines? That sucks.

[NismoZRS]

s***ty.. thats exactly the reason why im so afraid to pull up the carpet O_o

[TheCandyManS13]

Looking around on this forum I really feel lucky about my S13 gl with the repairs.

[dsc4130]

looks like your frame rail is still intacked, just go to a junk yard and cut out a patch. The other option is make it out of sheet metal, but it wont be pre-bent. good luck

[Guappone240]

same thing happened on my driver side to the seat hole. Don't worry about pre bent. I had my dad, whose a machinist, at his shop cut me out a 2 pieces of sheet metal and make the hole for the bolt and just slapped it in there. then I took a piece that was 2 by 6 and angled it against the side on to the flat part. it's covered by carpet so you can see it but it works just the same.

[Hijacker]

I had a similar rust spot in the exact same location. We cut it out, bent up some new sheet metal and welded it in. For the seat, we used a small piece of angle iron and welded a nut to the back of it to make the seat mount.

Before

After

After

Then I just cleaned it up, zapped it with some rust prevention paint on both sides, painted the top body color and the underside was hit with an undercoating paint.

[bigbadberry3]

Thanks for all the advice. Luckily there's a junkyard about 5 minutes from my house with 2 240's with good enough sections of the floor so if I botch one, I got another shot. I'm just relieved that other people have been able to do this and appreciate your tips.

[Fibre guy]

What rust hole? All I see is an excuse to rip out the interior to stitch weld.

[SirSilvia]

damn dude, I spilled some brake fluid in that exact spot. Seeing that now makes me want to get my arse in gear and wash/scrub/paint my carpet and clean and remove the tar crap from the interior. I refuse to wanna deal with rust in that type of area.