Crazy rust

[rturbo 930]

Best bet is to get a plug off another car with a good one. Maybe this dude can help you out - see if he can cut out the floor, and plug for you. He's in Socal so there's probably no rust. http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=345365

[_JDizzle_]

this is in the wheel well
This last one i dont see any other place that shows where water is getting in. Other than the wind shield but there is only a tiny little peice missing.

[_JDizzle_]

the wind shield.

[15Michaeljoseph]

It's bad, but it's pretty contained, and fixable.


--Mike

[_JDizzle_]

We just got some rain and i went to go check if the inside was wet...nope bone dry.???

[Stanley Rockafella]

We just got some rain and i went to go check if the inside was wet...nope bone dry.???

Is this a question?

[_JDizzle_]

Is this a question?

I dont understand how the rust got thos bad if theres no water getting in

[Stanley Rockafella]

...just part it out and be done with it.

[Jeff2886]

I had similar rust in mine. I just cut out the front floors and welded in a flat panel.
Check under your rear seats too. I had 4 holes above my gas tank and I just discovered one at the bottom rear edge of my transmission tunnel under the sound deadening.

Looks like you have a great opportunity to practice using an angle grinder, welder, and perfect those single arm (beer) curls.

[ravenlord89]

Mine was worse.

Go buy yourself a 4 1/2 inch angle grinder, the best 140 MIG welder you can afford with gas, a few spools of .023 or .025 wire, and 20 gauge steel sheet 4'x8'. Also a bench vise, many pairs of vise grips, body hammers, and a sheet metal break if you can afford one (cheap harbor freight will do), drill with many drill bits... I am forgetting lots but you get the point.

Dismantle the car as far as you can/ are willing to. Ideally all of it. Find all of the rust. There is more than what you have found. That isn't discouragement, that is fact. There is always more and it will run deeper then what you think.

Watch this in its entirety; https://www.youtube.com/user/badobsessionmsport

Read all of this; http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/mig.htm

Then start cutting, forming and welding. Prep work, good cutting discs and flapper wheels will make life much easier. Cut it all out. Leave nothing that is even slightly suspect behind.

Post results on forum, bask in praise.

[_JDizzle_]

Thanks guys im really thankful

[_JDizzle_]

...just part it out and be done with it.

I will never part this car out. Meens to much to me. Plus im not afraid to get my hands dirty and do some work.

[_JDizzle_]

Mine was worse.

Go buy yourself a 4 1/2 inch angle grinder, the best 140 MIG welder you can afford with gas, a few spools of .023 or .025 wire, and 20 gauge steel sheet 4'x8'. Also a bench vise, many pairs of vise grips, body hammers, and a sheet metal break if you can afford one (cheap harbor freight will do), drill with many drill bits... I am forgetting lots but you get the point.

Dismantle the car as far as you can/ are willing to. Ideally all of it. Find all of the rust. There is more than what you have found. That isn't discouragement, that is fact. There is always more and it will run deeper then what you think.

Watch this in its entirety; https://www.youtube.com/user/badobsessionmsport

Read all of this; http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/mig.htm

Then start cutting, forming and welding. Prep work, good cutting discs and flapper wheels will make life much easier. Cut it all out. Leave nothing that is even slightly suspect behind.

Post results on forum, bask in praise.

Do you have any idea were the water is getting in?

[rturbo 930]

If I had to take a guess I'd say it leaked in through your firewall and sat on your floor until it started rusting. And you live in Ohio, so road salt is probably the original cause.

[15Michaeljoseph]

I will never part this car out. Meens to much to me. Plus im not afraid to get my hands dirty and do some work.

Amen :)


--Mike