Removed the front end beam and transmission from the rear end so that the pan could be sandblasted. It was pretty simple for the most part. Removing the transmission was the most challenging: disconnecting the emergency brake cables, spring plates and shift rod.
Slid it out and started blasting.
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| Worse than expected. |
The Undercoating...The sandblaster cannot penetrate the undercoating on the bottom of the pan, so I am worked on removing it with Gunk, various other degreasers and a needle scaler. It came off slowly, taking too much time. Paint stripper worked pretty well, enabling me to sandblast the rest. This process has also revealed some rust holes in the rear drivers side pan. Right now there are only a few small holes and hopefully not many more will show up. I will patched in a new floor section.
I ordered a new floor section for this area from CIP1, stripped the paint and traced out where it would go, cut it and clamped it into place.
Stitch welded in the new floor section, these butt welding clamps made it really easy.
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