JimKueneman
Mopar Nut
This is for my own personal car, not looking for 100 pt restoration just something that is dependable and will not continue to decay. I blasted the floors in the '63 Dart and like all old cars they are cratered. From the bottom it looks fine other than pin holes and the occasional 1/8" or smaller hole. I have blasted it down to bare metal and really and thinking about epoxy primering it then fill the holes with filler, sand it mostly smooth and hit it with epoxy top and bottom again. There are no reproduction parts made for these cars and my skills at welding when I get done I think the better job is the filler. This is a fun cruiser that will never see rain on purpose. It lives in the desert where I have had it stripped to bare metal in the garage for a month and there is zero flash rust so it is super dry here. Would I be ridiculed here if I went down that path . The problem pin holes are the once that are into the frame channels so I can't get in there to really hit the back side with epoxy. There I would not use filler since I would not want it to be able to absorb moisture. There I would like use seam sealer to make the floor water tight.
Thanks,
Jim
Good example. Oh and some moron in the past hammered in sheet metal over the floor pans and screwed them in a 100 screws (the round holes, I can weld them shut as there is full thickness metal around most of them).
Thanks,
Jim
Good example. Oh and some moron in the past hammered in sheet metal over the floor pans and screwed them in a 100 screws (the round holes, I can weld them shut as there is full thickness metal around most of them).