alex22
NAXJA Forum User
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- CT: waterbury area
This "pending" project of mine got a heavy boot in the rear when I almost lit it on fire one night. The carpet ended up touching the exhaust and it actually started to char it.
I started replacing the floors in my DD and I'm just about done with the passenger side and my brother is doing some small patches and preventative maintenance on his floors.
Here's what had to go on mine...
The cuts extend past the rear spring mount just to where the floors start bending up towards the cargo area.
Replacement tins are made from a mix of 18 with beads rolled into it and flat 11 gage. The undersides were painted with Rustoleum high temp grill paint because I wanted a high temp paint over the exhaust system and not leave any exposed metal inside of the channel, but mostly because its what I had at the moment. Rockers will be replaced with 1/8 wall box tube. The muffler got wrapped in header wrap and siliconed, seems to have helped.
The front sheet, those 1/4 inch holes were not enough to attach the sheet to the channel. I had to cut out slits in order to get a nice weld.
I have a POR15 kit with the degreaser, etcher (for clean and/or rusty metal) and the paint that I was planning on doing both sides of the finished floor with. My brother picked up some 3M undercoating in a can from a paint shop, not the same stuff from Advance Autparts. We did a few test patches on his XJ and its way better than the Rustoleum undercoating. I want to use that over the POR15 on the inside to act as a sound and thermal insulator and possibly the Rustoleum rattle can truck bed liner over the POR on the for the outside.
I probably should have just bought the Raybuck front pan though, it was a real PITA to make, $80ish doesn't sound bad for the drivers side front.
What says
about this plan?
I started replacing the floors in my DD and I'm just about done with the passenger side and my brother is doing some small patches and preventative maintenance on his floors.
Here's what had to go on mine...
The cuts extend past the rear spring mount just to where the floors start bending up towards the cargo area.
Replacement tins are made from a mix of 18 with beads rolled into it and flat 11 gage. The undersides were painted with Rustoleum high temp grill paint because I wanted a high temp paint over the exhaust system and not leave any exposed metal inside of the channel, but mostly because its what I had at the moment. Rockers will be replaced with 1/8 wall box tube. The muffler got wrapped in header wrap and siliconed, seems to have helped.
The front sheet, those 1/4 inch holes were not enough to attach the sheet to the channel. I had to cut out slits in order to get a nice weld.
I have a POR15 kit with the degreaser, etcher (for clean and/or rusty metal) and the paint that I was planning on doing both sides of the finished floor with. My brother picked up some 3M undercoating in a can from a paint shop, not the same stuff from Advance Autparts. We did a few test patches on his XJ and its way better than the Rustoleum undercoating. I want to use that over the POR15 on the inside to act as a sound and thermal insulator and possibly the Rustoleum rattle can truck bed liner over the POR on the for the outside.
I probably should have just bought the Raybuck front pan though, it was a real PITA to make, $80ish doesn't sound bad for the drivers side front.
What says
about this plan?
