Well, not sure what to do with the car right now.
go to http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3811060/3
for pictures of the below.
I took the carpet up so I could get to the wiring going to the seat belt and the emergency brake handle. Found that there was a connector near the seat belt. That part was good.
Found out that the left rear (outer) driver's seat mounting hole area had rusted thru a bit. Not so good.
So I decided I had better totally remove the carpet. Then I see all the soundproofing(?) stuff stuck to the floor. Wanting to see how bad the rust was around the seat mounting area I start scaping it off. Wasn't too hard to do, so I decide to go ahead and do as much of the driver's side as I can. Found lots of rust up around the front of the floor pan. Including all along the subframe.
Not having had enough punishment for the night, I figure I should take a look at the passenger side(thinking that since all four seat mounting areas looked clean that there wouldn't be any rust). HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
There is more rusted out area on the passenger side than on the drivers side.
Putting thru the floor subframe connectors would be pretty easy right now. Problem is I am not sure how bad the subframes are. And I am 99% sure that there may be rust out in the frame rails themselves just under the firewall.
Now, as I am sure you all are already saying, Guess what Russ? The cowls must be shot too. Now that the carpet is out, I will get around to trying the pouring water in the cowls and see where it goes test. Hey, might as well make it official.
I haven't gotten the inside firewall pad off yet to see how far up the rust goes, not sure how without damaging it. I didn't really even look at it though, so maybe it is obvious. By this point I didn't feel like putting in the effort.
I really am not sure what to do at this point with the car. As my wife was trying to tell me, I did buy it knowing that this sort of stuff might be there. I am not in any rush to get it done. It is fixable, but it might be way out of my range.
I may continue working on it, ignoring the front rust stuff for now, knowing that some of the stuff I want to do to the back half of the car would help me get welding down to where I may be able to fix that later. But I don't have the money to spend on it if I end up parting it out. Plus if I am going to part it out, I would rather do it sooner than later so I could put my Pinto driver back in the garage.
Russ
go to http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3811060/3
for pictures of the below.
I took the carpet up so I could get to the wiring going to the seat belt and the emergency brake handle. Found that there was a connector near the seat belt. That part was good.
Found out that the left rear (outer) driver's seat mounting hole area had rusted thru a bit. Not so good.
So I decided I had better totally remove the carpet. Then I see all the soundproofing(?) stuff stuck to the floor. Wanting to see how bad the rust was around the seat mounting area I start scaping it off. Wasn't too hard to do, so I decide to go ahead and do as much of the driver's side as I can. Found lots of rust up around the front of the floor pan. Including all along the subframe.
Not having had enough punishment for the night, I figure I should take a look at the passenger side(thinking that since all four seat mounting areas looked clean that there wouldn't be any rust). HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
There is more rusted out area on the passenger side than on the drivers side.
Putting thru the floor subframe connectors would be pretty easy right now. Problem is I am not sure how bad the subframes are. And I am 99% sure that there may be rust out in the frame rails themselves just under the firewall.
Now, as I am sure you all are already saying, Guess what Russ? The cowls must be shot too. Now that the carpet is out, I will get around to trying the pouring water in the cowls and see where it goes test. Hey, might as well make it official.
I haven't gotten the inside firewall pad off yet to see how far up the rust goes, not sure how without damaging it. I didn't really even look at it though, so maybe it is obvious. By this point I didn't feel like putting in the effort.
I really am not sure what to do at this point with the car. As my wife was trying to tell me, I did buy it knowing that this sort of stuff might be there. I am not in any rush to get it done. It is fixable, but it might be way out of my range.
I may continue working on it, ignoring the front rust stuff for now, knowing that some of the stuff I want to do to the back half of the car would help me get welding down to where I may be able to fix that later. But I don't have the money to spend on it if I end up parting it out. Plus if I am going to part it out, I would rather do it sooner than later so I could put my Pinto driver back in the garage.
Russ