Bolt it or weld it?

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Bolt in or weld in the new boot floor

  • bolt

    Votes: 1 33.3%
  • weld

    Votes: 2 66.7%

  • Total voters
    3
Do you think you will ever need to get the floor out again?

Col
That's my problem, with me you never know, part of me thinks bolt in means easy out in the future for fuel tank, ease of access to sedimentor bowl, A frame bushes and ball joint and the other bit thinks drill the holes, blaze it in like all the other millions of em around an work underneath it.

:rolleyes:

Welding would go faster, bolt in gives more opportunity & flexibility down the road.
 
That's my problem, with me you never know, part of me thinks bolt in means easy out in the future for fuel tank, ease of access to sedimentor bowl, A frame bushes and ball joint and the other bit thinks drill the holes, blaze it in like all the other millions of em around an work underneath it.

:rolleyes:

Welding would go faster, bolt in gives more opportunity & flexibility down the road.
Then, I'd bolt it in

Col
 
How close is the section to be replaced to the chassis mounts ?
MOT testers sometimes take a more extreme view of strength reduction if items not as production near the structural mountings.
 
Weld a peripheral lip on all the way round and bolt to that with a waterprooof gasket between the floor panel and the lip?
Would perhaps be the best of both worlds?
 
Bolt it in.
Drill/tap some good fixing points.
As you say it's better for later work.

I found these.
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Look to need a couple of small skin pins to secure them but look at the way they have their own "O" ring seals, once they're in place and they'll be good for years and the bolts won't rust in the nuts either so right result :)

Weld a peripheral lip on all the way round and bolt to that with a waterproof gasket between the floor panel and the lip?
Would perhaps be the best of both worlds?
The floor panel sits on a panel lip around it's circumference and is usually spot welded to the front, sides, rear and to the floor support bars that run across it.

I bought a couple of rolls of the closed cell foamed neoprene door seal strip from Lidl ages ago, it's about 3/4" wide so should be plenty wide enough ;)
 
I found these.
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Look to need a couple of small skin pins to secure them but look at the way they have their own "O" ring seals, once they're in place and they'll be good for years and the bolts won't rust in the nuts either so right result :)


The floor panel sits on a panel lip around it's circumference and is usually spot welded to the front, sides, rear and to the floor support bars that run across it.

I bought a couple of rolls of the closed cell foamed neoprene door seal strip from Lidl ages ago, it's about 3/4" wide so should be plenty wide enough ;)
Sorted! Will be a great upgrade with respect to servicing.
 
Bolt it, it's a keeper

100% a keeper, really hadn't planned on doing this again but needs must and I'll be sure to get in there once I've repaired it all this time and apply a generous underbody wax coating that will creep into all the seams and joints and any residual rust I missed or just can't reach without popping the body off.

You seem like a bit of a boy racer from back in the day with your admission of being an avid reader of Max Power :cool:

Don't suppose you know anything about wheel arch rolling?
 
Yeah, don't do it with a scaff tube and the car rolling :D:D

Closest I got to boy racer was a diesel 306 with chopped springs and a nova 1.4sr with ground hubs to fit cav wheels :p

I need about 3 inches of coverage over the tyres :eek:

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Fell asleep on the couch with the babe after giving her a bottle an YouTube had auto played me to this from a This Old Tony vid.



Just wondering how far I could push the roller? I might be being a little over optimistic?
 
I need about 3 inches of coverage over the tyres :eek:

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Fell asleep on the couch with the babe after giving her a bottle an YouTube had auto played me to this from a This Old Tony vid.



Just wondering how far I could push the roller? I might be being a little over optimistic?

Because it's aluminium it will stretch a lot easier than the high strength low alloy steel of a modern steel body, so it could work fine for you. The person who thought of that device is pretty clever, it takes a lot of guesswork out of guard flaring.
 
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