More welding to the front lower floor braces.
Prepping out for the new floor pans.
The lower rear filler panel & repaired left tail light section was also painted with rust preventative paint.
Its starting to clean up nicely.
All welds will be but welds no lap stuff here to look factory.
All four braces will have to be replaced, repos for the rear are ordered & the fronts will have to be custom made nothing available at the present time.
The welds were ground clean & smooth for a factory look.
Patch panels were made for the rear inner trunk section then the under side was painted with rust preventative paint.
Front floor front seat rear support braces drill for plug welding & painted with rust preventarive paint.
The spare tire tie down plate from the old floor installed the all welds ground clean then painted with rust preventative paint.
Right rear front seat brace very thin & rusted thru.
The last time it was licensed was 1992 24 years. It will need some rust repair & good chance several other things to happen so check back on this build.
I am starting with the trunk floor first, no special reason just getting started, after cleaning out the rat stuff & and a couple of mice carcass.
The left tail light area needs some attention & its easiest to do with the trunk floor out.
Hammer & dolly work cleaning up the damage.
Tail light area rebuilt & ground clean just some minor touch up work now.
Grinding the trunk floor welds.
At present it is a 6 cylinder, 3 speed stick, bench seat stocker.
The tail light & trim removed for better acsess.
All the weld areas and new patches in the trunk were painted with rust preventative paint looks nice & clean now. Thats it for now.
The inside was painted with rust preventative paint
The seat brace in place then plug welded in lots of clamps were used to hold in place.
All the welds in the trunk are ground clean & smooth.
Top & bottom weld areas were painted with rust preventative paint
Quality custom & restoration sheet metal work & repair
trunk floor fuel tank braces pre drilled before plug welding in place.
Grinding the welds smooth.
Both braces for front seat are shot also.
Up front floor braces being removed so the final trimming can be done for the right floor pan.
Cleaning up the plug welds
Working on final fit before we start welding in place, after they are both tacked in then we can start making the toe board area patches where it was rusted thru or vey thin.
Welding in the left floor pan.
The rear is welded also.
After the floor skin was removed from the front seat brace it is definitely needing a replace.
Both left & right side trunk floor sections buy the rear panel are in need of some repair.
Final fitment of the repo trunk floor
The inside of the rear tail light panel will need some de rusting.
Trunk floor almost fully welded.
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The fuel tank braces plug welded to the trunk floor.
Left rear front seat brace even worse.
Next I pulled the seats carpet, a past repair some one screwed down sheet metal & covered with tar paper patches both sides.
Left side patch welded in & ground clean.
Part of the sheet metal removed to make the repair easer.
Both front floor pans were drilled for plug welding to the front factory lower braces, then those sections & the rear braces were painted with rust preventative paint.
While waiting for repo panels for the front floors & trunk, I am doing some initial cut out & start prepping for the replacements sections I have ordered.
Getting the right floor pan welded in.
After a bunch of clean up & de rusting the outer trunk floor panels & inner rear frame rails were painted with rust preventative paint.
After close inspection I decided to replace just the center section of the trunk floor & a few small patches in other areas then clean up the surface rust. the fuel tank was removed & the center was cut out.
Tack welding the new floor in.
Over all the sheet metal at present looks pretty decent on the Nova so I wont have to buy lots of repo panels, we will make several small to mid size patches to save as much as possible of the original sheet metal. It has had some repairs over the past & once it is stripped we will know for sure.
The right side floor patch fully welded & ground clean