full floorpan - poor fitup

[NY-67stang]

Anyone installed the full floor plan and had a gap at the rear torque box?

If so how did you handle it.

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[enferno]

you could cut it along the trans hump and fan it out a bit. lots of massaging with body hammers. for mine, i spliced it back an inch or two and about 2 inches between each cut, tack welded part of it, hammered more to get it to fit, then tacked the next splice, then repeat.

 

[2+2GT]

You could do what Ford did, they just forced the flanges together and spot welded them, and filled any gaps that resulted with seam sealer.

 

[robbz28]

Nothing a pair of ball peen hammers cant fix. Realize that you are working on a 43 year old car that has been twisted and heated, cooled, beat, abused, everything done to it, its not going to line up perfect everywhere. I would simply do as one listed above and force them together and tack it, no harm done. In some instances i would drill a hole and use a screw to pull the metal together and then tack it and then weld the hole back up.

 

[68GT500KR_Vert]

Try sheet metal screws

 

[Hairy W Bush]

vice grips will help too

 

[NasaGT]

Nothing a pair of ball peen hammers cant fix.
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In some instances i would drill a hole and use a screw to pull the metal together and then tack it and then weld the hole back up.

+1. It's amazing how much you can move the metal this way.

 

[2+2GT]

Remember, this stuff is mild steel, it was placed flat into a set of dies and smashed into a complex floor shape. Smashing it 2% more probably won't be a challenge.

 

[jerry S]

I had a full length floor installed in my mustang. Gaps that were encountered were fixed with the appropriate sized beatin' iron and a spot welder

Here is a pic with the floor out

the floor pan that had to go in

and the finished product

 

[2+2GT]

Ford took the easy way out: