Originally posted by Full Size Jeeper
Originally posted by Wagoneer Taylor
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Last night I removed the rest of the stuff bolted to to the floor so I could clean it all up, install carpet, and install the seats. This is what I have had for flooring for the last 3 years. It is a factory rubbery/vinyl sub-flooring stuff with some matting on the back. I thought maybe the previous owner got it in place of carpet but there was carpet chunks under the seat belt re-tractors (you can see the chunk of factory carpet under my seat in a picture below) which means there was carpet over this flooring and was torn out. I am SURE it was because it was saturated in oil, stunk, was faded, and probably full of rodent poop/pee.
Looking up from under my truck, my floors look solid; No bubbles, no peeling, no dents, notta. I decided to pull up this flooring so I could clean under it. I expected surface rust but it was a bit heavier than I expected with one spot of rust through. If my son's drivers license was not staring me down, I would order a new floor pan from BJs but for now I wire brushed it, coated it in rust nuetrilizer, and am going to put some automotive seam sealer over the rust holes. I am also going to make a metal disc to cover that factory hole to the left of the rust holes. The rust holes are right over the body channel. Yes I know this is not a permanent fix but one of the following will happen:
1) My son will wreck this Jeep sometime in the next 2 years and it will be irrelevant
2) I am going to do a chassis swap/paint job after I move to Idaho (about 2.5 years from now)
So this nuetrilizer should hold me over until then.
OK, Bragging time. I know I have rambled on and on about my seats but am SOOoooo stoked on them! I dropped off my passenger seat bottom parts at a local upholsterer and he redid all the vinyl on the bottom and added new piping ($80). Check out my passenger seat now!
This is the same seat/material as this:
I am SOOOOooooo pumped to get this all back together! Hopefully this weekend I will get the carpet in, Seats in, the steering column trim back on, the A/C vent in, and generally clean the inside. That will (hopefully) officially make my interior better than a parts rig. Except for the headliner.
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