87 "coug" resto winter project

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87 "coug" resto winter project

Reply #165 – January 19, 2015, 12:19:01 AM

Did that rust come from the inside (some kind of water leak into the interior)? The only reason I ask is the underside of the floor pans look better than the interior side of the floor pans.

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Reply #166 – January 19, 2015, 07:33:45 AM

think that happens in the northern states that salt...it melts off your boots, and eats the metal from the inside out...all my vehicles look like that or worse

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Reply #167 – January 19, 2015, 12:51:23 PM

it could be true all the stuff on the shoes over the years.
I am thinking through a plastic sheet I can heat up and mold to the interior floor , something about 1/16'' thick that is durable,, I don't really know at the moment because plastic will sweat.

The generous oil leaks I have had from past years saved the underside

I am trying to think of something that will make the floor bullet proof for many years to come.

when you think about it ford did a good job with the adhesive sticky sheets they put down as it lasted as long as they intended.
some areas of my floor all that stuff just simply lifted off.

I am looking for heat barrier stuff to stick on the trans tunnel , that will be important.

once I sand blast, rust neutralize and prime and paint, I will naturally want to put something down.

someone was telling me about lizard skin???????

I want to invest time into something that will end up acting like a bucket so to speak to catch future moisture..like when the windows are down during the rain.. even when it means a wet/dry vac may become required when carpet cleaning time comes or for whatever reason.
This would mean the protection needs to extend over top of the lip on the very outter edge of the door opening where the door seal slips on.

maybe you guys know a solution.

I may end up making 4 separate "drop in" tubs that are made of plastic and heat gun'd to shape them into the hole they will reside.

the foam suff on the back side of my carpet now is going away,, will add something else lighter and better for pad / sound deadening.

still need to decide on a good sound deadening solution for this,, there are many things out there not so costly that will do the job,, fewer with the heat properties I need though.

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Reply #168 – January 19, 2015, 09:43:04 PM

This is how Ford chose to hold on the exterior window trim/window gasket.

Why ththe needed this odd nut over a normal one is beyond me lol

But, we got the door out. Corrosion is worse on the passenger side (as expected) but we've determined that the door is salvageable.

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Reply #169 – January 19, 2015, 10:28:15 PM

Quote from: daminc;443130

think that happens in the northern states that salt...it melts off your boots, and eats the metal from the inside out...all my vehicles look like that or worse

I think that makes sense.

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Reply #170 – January 19, 2015, 11:57:14 PM

Moisture from snow/rain gets in your floorboards, doesn't dry out, etc.

I wonder if using "brush on" bed liner would be feasible for snow belt cars? Cover the bolt holes for seat brackets and lay it down...cure it...good to go, maybe?

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Reply #171 – January 20, 2015, 01:33:21 PM

im sure that would work..... I want to attempt not adding it in there yet.... don't ask me why because I cant exactly explain why I am not for it yet.... this is a confusing step.

reason I say is because the underside id different for under coat purposes... the underside has a chance in hell of evaporating off moisture.

inside however, if water gets in on top of the bed liner,, it "may" possibly get under the bedl liner stuff before it can evap off.

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Reply #172 – January 20, 2015, 01:52:38 PM

Good point.

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Reply #173 – January 24, 2015, 09:10:07 PM

This is a couple of pictures near the seatbelt retractor mechanism
Water gets in from the outside crevice where the factory caulking has chipped and falling off and flowed on the interior of the car

yet another example of areas where the sheet metal is overlapped incorrectly.
this overlap should be the opposite of what is shown.
the forward motion of a car and oncoming water basically enables water to get in

It's a c trying to find where all the water gets in and travels

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Reply #174 – January 24, 2015, 09:15:10 PM

Since when is a ground wire orange

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Reply #175 – January 24, 2015, 11:43:35 PM

Decided I would go ahead and do spray on 3M undercoating

So here's a coat of primer

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Reply #176 – January 25, 2015, 12:07:20 AM

Undercoating is on

This is the 3M rubberized undercoating stuff

on tall can= one floor pan

so you need 4 cans to get a top layer.

I will add two more cans, 1 can for the driver front and rear, another for the pass front / rear.

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Reply #177 – January 25, 2015, 09:48:55 AM

by the way,
those oval shaped plugs in the rear floor pans are not all they seem.

they are simple flat sheet metal with little tabs on the ends.

the factory caulking was rubberized something or another but when I lifted up on them from under the car, the plug itself lifted off the area which it was supposed to be sealed.

I demo'd these out and resealed with windshield caulking.

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Reply #178 – January 28, 2015, 06:06:01 PM

so, i found a hole near the back seat area that was suspiciously placed and shaped to allow a hinge setup. as seen in the first pic

so, i decided to make a mock up of a hinge for the back seat out of an old sign we had. the actual thing will be made of some sort of flat bar because of the clearance issues.

im going to attempt to incorporate the factory friction lock to latch the back seat. but we'll see how that goes.

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Reply #179 – February 03, 2015, 10:33:55 PM

any water that gets past all this really deserves to be there. we've got it sealed in pretty good

also, the back "supports" for the luggage rack are removed for better trunk access. they didn't help enough to warrant keeping them imo