Can You Place Carpet Over Rusted Floorpan

Remove any rust from the bottom of the floor pan using a power sander and 40 grit sandpaper.

Can you place carpet over rusted floorpan.

Floor pan rust treatment process in pictures. The floor in the 73 duster we used for. If you have built an older car chances are you have had to deal with rusty floor pans. We set out to show the different ways you can fix a floor using this 1960 pontiac catalina where severe rust and rot had damaged its floorpans and trunk floor.

A good tip for you place a thin layer of plastic or cling film under the lid to stop it sealing itself shut if you have any left over. Scrap off the old seam sealer from around the remaining edges of the floor. If necessary to break the adhesion bond between the carpet and floor pan. This patches the holes and adds a strong layer over the floor pan which can actually improve the strength of the entire floor pan.

By madcat x1 len gates in the uk provided this important caution. Riveting in a patch sealed with rtv will work if you re feeling cheap. Wear a dust mask and eye protection. Then you want to put in a patch.

Weld spatter travels far and will bury itself into the surface of any glass it hits you can get it off with an acrylic scraper but the glass will be permanently pitted. A better method is to weld in a patch remember to paint that area on the outside under of the car so that it doesn t rust over again. Carpet in place. We used a hypertherm powermax45 xp plasma system.

Sometimes you can get away with minimal patch work but far too often the pans are completely wasted. I would love to see pics of your progress and all the best with your project too. The first thing realize that when you decide to repair your rusty floor you need to understand that those few rust holes that you see now are only going to get bigger as you clean things up. On the face of it installing new carpet over the old carpet does have some advantages.

On any repairs that require welding cover all the glass on the car and on any other cars in the workshop where you re working. And if the existing carpet was glued down not tacked it can be a huge time saver to lay the new carpet over the old. Even an otherwise rust free car will often have some swiss cheesing of the floors 40 years of wet shoes and the occasional bust ed heater core take a toll. Just removing carpet along can take a quarter sized holes and turn it in to a dollar sized cavity.