welding,boot floor

channi · Apr 10, 2014

my disco 1 will need the boot floor welding for mot this year ive got a sheet of mild steel that will do the whole thing in one peice hopefully but its only 1.3 mm thick would this be man enough for the job or not any thoughts welcome

generaldogsbody · Apr 10, 2014

Don,t know if it's thick enough.The boot floor gets most of it's strength from beeing ribbed or if you like corrigated ridges,running along length ways.IF you are gonna do all the floor,you might as well put a propper floor in.

channi · Apr 11, 2014

yeah looked at it again and i think its to thin for the job in hand might save it for the inner wings instead

JonnyP · Apr 11, 2014

The boot floor is not an mot fail in itself.
Weld in some more bearers if are worried about the metal you have for the floor.

generaldogsbody · Apr 11, 2014

I am a bit confused about boot floors,My disco had a 6x3in hole usual place rear o/s floor,and is one of the reasones for failing mot.

Hunterf58 · Apr 11, 2014

I cut out the whole flood on my 300tdi and riveted on an aluminium sheet then wax oiled over it. Passed the mot without mention.

JonnyP · Apr 11, 2014

generaldogsbody said:
I am a bit confused about boot floors,My disco had a 6x3in hole usual place rear o/s floor,and is one of the reasones for failing mot.

The boot floor is not structural.
When I started my disco I had three pages of fails on the mot, mostly rust, but no mention of the boot floor that was not much of a floor any more.

channi · Apr 12, 2014

i will have a look at yrm and see what prices are like, the steel i have was just kicking around at work so i thought i might save myself some money thats all

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