First job was to remove the underbody jacking points which were toast on both sides. I have new Restoration Design(RD) replacements.
I ground out the spot welds and chiselled it off...
It's pretty rust-pitted underneath these jacking plates; but I'm reluctant to start chopping into the Longs and replacing these sections as I don't think it's that bad.
So then I went to town on removing the cr*p from the bottom of the car. The tar came off with a scraper and Heatgun, the wire cup brush took care of the white mastic sealer while paint-stripper took off the.....paint ofcourse. Oh yeah and a whole bucket load of elbow grease!
From this...
..to this.
Here are the problem bits. the firewall end of the centre tunnel had been crushed and one corner of the floorpan had rusted through but no big deal, I'll fix those next.
This bit's fine though; this is the reinforcement for the pedal cluster.
And here it is after the first coat of epoxy.
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