So three months have passed and finally I have made some progress on this project.
A combination of Christmas, work and waiting for my knee to heal has kept me away from the garage but today I got back to it.
Job one today was pulling out the back seat, carpet and parcel shelf.
As usual the glue holding the carpet to the sound deadening was no where near as strong as the glue holding the messy stuff to the car.
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So a bit of time was needed to scrape off the tar hairy stuff sound deadening and see what the steel underneath is like.
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In all the steel was very good. The only crusty stuff is in this corner and I think I would have been more surprised if this hadnt been rusty.
On the bottom right you can see where the wiring loom passes through the heater channel into the quarter where it runs into the engine bay.
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This is a problem as I either need to cut and re-connect the loom here or dissconnect the full loom in the engine bay and feed it through the hole.
Think I may cut it but need to sleep on the idea first.
So while thinking about the loom I thought I would remove the last of the floor pan bolts.
These bolts wouldnt come out with a socket as the captive nuts have stopped being captive.
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Best method I could think of to remove these bolts was to cut through them with my reciprocating saw.
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That was easy peasy so now there are no bolts holding the body down on this side of the car.
Last job today was to mark out a template where the new panel will be let in at the back.
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So thats where I left it today and it better not be another 3 months before I get to it again.
Dave.