Day 8 - Doors and Floor Pan Rust

Today we wanted to tackle the driver side door and the floor. My friend Paul came over once again to give me hand. WHAT A SUCKER! Lol jk.

Paul went ahead and removed the door panel and hardware.

We went over to the home depot and picked up a few things:

1. A wire brush attachment for one of the grinders. (This is for getting into the groves of the floor pans)

• A few wire brushes of various sizes (This for any detailed cleaning that needs to be done)
• A box of dust masks
  - For those of you who don’t believe in the use of dust masks, here are ours after just a few hours.

The top one is a new one, the lower left one is Paul’s and the lower right one is mine.

• Lacquer thinner (This is for cleaning surfaces just before painting.)
• Masking tape (Masking off any areas you don’t want paint on.)
• Welding gloves (The wire brushing attachment for the grinder is dangerous and hell
  on the hands, so I got these to protect the hands and help with the vibration.)

This took some serious grinding to clean up these floor pans.

When using the sanding pad you will notice it sparking when you hit seams or rust, nothing to worry about, just keep going.

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Day 7 - Clean Up and Seat Stands

Today I just tried to clean the garage and build some stands for the bucket seats. Because the seats seem to be in pretty good condition, I wanted to protect them. These car seats bolt right to the floor I made some stands so the studs wouldn’t get damaged.

First I took a piece of plywood and cut it to the length and width of the foot print of the seat.

I then set it on the studs then marked where the studs are on the wood. I drilled out the holes and made sure it fit.

I then attached a couple of 2X4 s to the bottom so that the seat can sit on the floor without sitting on the studs.

Day 6 - Interior Removal

Today my friend Paul came over and helped me remove the interior. The seats seem to be in pretty good condition as does the center console.

That’s about where the good news ends. The floor as you can see is rusted in a couple of spots. I am going to have to cut those parts out and weld in some new floors. Most of it does seem to be surface rust so it’s not that bad.

We also removed all the door hardware off the passenger side.

I am bit concerened about the door striker and stirinking unit. It looks pretty mangeled but I won't know anything till the paint comes off.

During this part of the project we found countless screws that weren’t the correct ones or they just used self tapping screws to fasten what ever they needed to. This was not a very stellar job done by however we tagged and bagged everything.