Floor Pan Priming

Taped masking paper throughout the interior and glass and sanded-back any remaining areas of surface rust.

Under the rear seat there was a little bit, due to the urine from the vermin that lived there. It was good JtC wasn’t there for that as it STANK big time! He would have been dry-reaching all over the place.

All tidied up now. Washed down, heat gun to dry, prepsol to clean, heat gun again then paint. Finished off the can so will get another can on Monday to do a final coat through the week.

Also, I let all the smoke out of my $5 drill that we were using for wire-brushing. It just shut off in my hand with spoke pouring out of it. Glad I wasn’t electrocuted.

Result...





J

Packed

2nd (and final) coat of primer went on the front passenger-side foot well this evening, then packed the Commodore with the benches and new seat covers ready to drop-off to the trimmer tomorrow morning.

Prepping the Floor

Acquired a heat gun to put some heat into the floor to aid paint drying, as well as a 80 grit flapper disc for the angle grinder to assist cleaning-up any surface rust.

After wire-brushing but before sanding with the flapper disc...




All fawn colouring isn't rust, but remnants of the old carpet underlay.

The worst of the corrosion was in the passenger side front foot well, so I hit it with the flapper disc.

Result...




Cleaning ensued and the bare metal hit with Galmet primer...





Hopefully I can hit it with a 2nd coat through the week, ready to put sound deadener down next weekend.

J

Reverse Jigsaw

Sound deadener has been stripped out and the floor pan is in good nick...




I have kept and labelled each piece to use as templates for the replacement pieces; here stacked in the boot for storage...



J