Well, I finally got the rear floor pan back under the body. Now all I have to
do is finish gluing the quarter panels to the rear floor pan, and to the B
pillars.
But I have a question for anyone. There is a metal "L"ish bar that goes
across
the car at the B pillars. The rear vertical portion of the front floor pan
is glued and pop riveted to this. Where this bar turns horizontal and goes
towards the rear of the car, there are lots of holes in the bar that aligh
with holes in rear horizontal lip of the front floor pan. Now that I have
everything in place, there is about 3/8" to 1/2" air gap between where this
bar is horizontal and the horizontal lip at the rear of the front floor pan.
Is this supposed to be this way?
When I put the front floor pan in place, I aligned the holes in the rear
vertical wall of the floor pan with the holes in the vertical portion of
this bar and held the floor pan in place with screws and nuts. I also
bolted the front of the floor pan to the fiberglass portion of the firewall.
Then I checked the side panels for fit. Once everything was lined up I put
glue on the back of the floor pan and pop rivited it to the vertical portion
of the B pillar L brace. Then I glued and pop rivited the side walls in
place.
If I were to drill out the pop rivits in the vertical portion of the L brace,
and try and jack up the floor pan the 3/8 - 1/2" till it is flush with the
horizontal portion of the L brace, I'm affraid that this will move the side
panels up that much, and they won't fit.
Anyone had this problem? Anyone have any ideas if I'm right having an
air gap there? I've though about making a small wooden shim to put in the
air gap. The only problem then is, I don't think I can get pop rivits
long enough to go through the metal L brace, the wood shim and the fiberglass.
I'm open to comments or suggestions.
TIA
John
John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229
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