MildSeven
Legacy Member
Day 9 - Removing floor pan tar, repairing driver side floor pan (March 20th, 2015)
I took Friday off work, brought my son tobogganing in the morning, had lunch and then pushed the 2002 outside to help freeze the tar on the floor pans.
I was able to remove the tar panels on the rear shock towers / rear seat backing with a heat-gun but the heat gun caused a freakin’ disaster on the floor tar. I had read that dry ice was the way to go but discovered that our cold climate was almost as good as dry ice. [Side note, with all the shit my neighbors see happening in front my place they must think I’m a bit retarded (-30’c “underwear” snow angles, snow fixed gear skid contest at 1am, 2002 “rolling” shell, just in recent months).] The cold helped and the floor pans were pretty clean, aside from crap around the drain plugs. I found a little more rust behind the front seats, very happy about that!
Kosta and Ernest showed up as I was finishing the pans, they gave me a hand to push the shell back in to the previously warm garage. Before the welder arrived (as a precaution), we decided to reinforce the shell by welding temporary bars between the A & B pillars. We also tried our hands at repairing a patch behind the driver seat, I think it went pretty well given our lack of experience and Mastercraft welder. Ernest loves yelling “EASY, EASY, EASY!” while we pound sheet metal to shape.
Ernest hooked us up with a welder, his wife’s cousin Ardo (who owns his own shop http://www.avfabrication.com/, they do some crazy shit there), he agreed to come help us out with a house call. As you’d expect by the name AV Fabrication specializes in fabrication, custom parts, headers/downpipes/exhaust and some freakin’ crazy builds/setups. I now know where to go if I decide to make the move to fuel injection/turbo M10, you guys should definitely call him up if you need anything too. His father used to own a body shop so he brought him along for his bodywork wisdom. Ardo gave us some directives on what to cut and strip from the driver’s floor pan, while he and Kosta prepared the donor floor pan for (non-sexual) insertion.
Side note: Pete (Saceone) dropped by at the same time that they arrived and there was a lot of confusion going on so I didn’t get to chat with him too much. However, he did compliment me on my retarded wooden dolly though
1 Greek working, 3 Armenian inspectors
Before:
After:
Just passed 10:30pm we decided to call it a night, Ardo gave me some instruction on how to prep the passenger donor floor pan, so it would be ready for his next visit. I took care of that over Saturday and Sunday, while I was working in front on Saturday a metal collector drove by and luckily the metal sparks caught his eye, I managed to unload all the scrap pieces so that worked out well.
Current state:
I took Friday off work, brought my son tobogganing in the morning, had lunch and then pushed the 2002 outside to help freeze the tar on the floor pans.
I was able to remove the tar panels on the rear shock towers / rear seat backing with a heat-gun but the heat gun caused a freakin’ disaster on the floor tar. I had read that dry ice was the way to go but discovered that our cold climate was almost as good as dry ice. [Side note, with all the shit my neighbors see happening in front my place they must think I’m a bit retarded (-30’c “underwear” snow angles, snow fixed gear skid contest at 1am, 2002 “rolling” shell, just in recent months).] The cold helped and the floor pans were pretty clean, aside from crap around the drain plugs. I found a little more rust behind the front seats, very happy about that!
Kosta and Ernest showed up as I was finishing the pans, they gave me a hand to push the shell back in to the previously warm garage. Before the welder arrived (as a precaution), we decided to reinforce the shell by welding temporary bars between the A & B pillars. We also tried our hands at repairing a patch behind the driver seat, I think it went pretty well given our lack of experience and Mastercraft welder. Ernest loves yelling “EASY, EASY, EASY!” while we pound sheet metal to shape.
Ernest hooked us up with a welder, his wife’s cousin Ardo (who owns his own shop http://www.avfabrication.com/, they do some crazy shit there), he agreed to come help us out with a house call. As you’d expect by the name AV Fabrication specializes in fabrication, custom parts, headers/downpipes/exhaust and some freakin’ crazy builds/setups. I now know where to go if I decide to make the move to fuel injection/turbo M10, you guys should definitely call him up if you need anything too. His father used to own a body shop so he brought him along for his bodywork wisdom. Ardo gave us some directives on what to cut and strip from the driver’s floor pan, while he and Kosta prepared the donor floor pan for (non-sexual) insertion.
Side note: Pete (Saceone) dropped by at the same time that they arrived and there was a lot of confusion going on so I didn’t get to chat with him too much. However, he did compliment me on my retarded wooden dolly though
1 Greek working, 3 Armenian inspectors
Before:
After:
Just passed 10:30pm we decided to call it a night, Ardo gave me some instruction on how to prep the passenger donor floor pan, so it would be ready for his next visit. I took care of that over Saturday and Sunday, while I was working in front on Saturday a metal collector drove by and luckily the metal sparks caught his eye, I managed to unload all the scrap pieces so that worked out well.
Current state: