Patching Holes In Floor Pan

If the hole isn t too big you can do a patch repair.

Patching holes in floor pan.

Mike bumbeck next up i used a pneumatic flanging tool that clamped its offset jaws onto the steel and gnawed around the hole so the steel patch had a recessed contact patch to sit flush in the adhesive for minimum body. There are several ways to deal with a rusty floor. Following some quick work with a sharpie and cutoff wheel a perforated steel and bondo sandwichs littered my workspace floor. This transforms the flexible fiberglass into a rock solid chunk of rust proof flooring.

One of the best ways to patch the holes is with fiberglass. Floor pans are the base metal layer of a vehicle s floor that everything else rests on. This is a permanent repair though it s not advisable to consider this a fix for those fred flintstone floorpans where there s more open air than sheetmetal. Cheap car floor pan fix solid overview how to.

The previous owner had chosen to ignore the small rust holes and just roll a coating of some sort possibly truck bed coating over the front half of the floor and called it a day. Needless to say i didn t know quite how bad it was and the vast amounts of money i lavished on paying a welder to give it the patchwork quilt treatment would have. This is most common for older cars. Fixing the holes in the floor symptom.

Replace rusty floor panels. See all 24. One solution is to patch it up but on a badly affected car this is rarely the best solution. For a larger repair the damaged section can be replaced with a partial floor panel.

The hole is covered with the fiberglass mat which is then soaked in por 15 paint and allowed to dry. Jb weld for rust repair. I know because i once bought a 65 beetle that needed lots of floorpan work. Your feet get wet when you drive through a puddle you can see the road going past when you look down the battery just fell out of you car and was demolished by a kenworth rig behind you.

This was actually suggested to me by a great bodyman in town here. I never bought any after market replacement patch panels or floor pans for a car. Fixing the holes in the floor last updated. Usually the pans do not rust or need repairs.

For small patch panels not for whole pan. However sometimes it is necessary to repair holes in the bottom of the floor pan.