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Hi guys,
I'm as some of you know fixing up an 84' softtop for my daughter who turns 18 this may.
The sierra had rust in the passenger side floor, i've since welded in the same thickness steel from a donor shell.
These weld's are quitre difficult to do on such thin metal so i've had to do an overlapping stich weld so i don't blow though the thin metal.
BUT heres the twist i've had a guy at a R.W.C place tell me that the weld has to be continuous. any one know what constitutes a legal weld?
P.s there are no holes its a gasless mig so quite a bit of slag
thanks in advance for any advice
Give it a coat of sound deadner\floor liner stuff .
Its to ensure no exhaust leaks into the cab I would be guessing.
" If governments are involved in the covering up the knowledge of aliens, Then they are doing a much better job of it than they do of everything else "
v840 wrote:Does that mean it's illegal to drive with the rubber bungs out of the floor?
Yep
I thought you could buy a seam sealer that is basically like putty. You see it used in stock cars. Provided all your stitch welds overlap though I would have thought he was talking shite too.
Sierra
2 inch RUF
G16A
Megasquirt Injection
30 inch BFGs
Vit P/S
4.9 T/C gears
Hilux Project = Dead
They claimed that all repairs to the floor had to be paint and deadener clear for inspection..
BUT i am gonna cover it all and paint it and take it to sombody else ,this guy seems to be digging for money.
if its leak free (which you can prove with a glass of water) i dont see how its any worse than a rubber bung in the floor... hell, th rubber can perish or pop out... no chance of that happening now is there? =)
Finally got the rwc done today (by another dude) he took one look at the floor and said i'd done a great job! go figure!
I polished it all up and sprayed it , not an issue.
Just needed a front end allignment and to adjust the rear brakes (may be a bit sceized on the auto adjuster).
But all good and the other mob has been put on my no go list!
Last edited by casbro on Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:55 am, edited 1 time in total.
Yes TNA,
It is the go to go slow, and have a gas mig welder NICE WORK
I'm using a $200 cheapy gasless from BUNDINGS, what a mess ,flux and crap everywhere!
lol continuous weld... sounds like hes stuffing you around. i had to do something similar for my sierra but i simply ground off the rust wiped fish oil over it, wiped off excess and the next day i fibreglassed strips over where it was needed. then i went over my whole footwells with underbody black, its also sound deadener, then just put my matts over that.
casbro wrote:Yes TNA,
It is the go to go slow, and have a gas mig welder NICE WORK
I'm using a $200 cheapy gasless from BUNDINGS, what a mess ,flux and crap everywhere!
my welder we got for free lol, but is a full mig
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