full floorpan - poor fitup

NY-67stang

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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

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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.

 

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2+2GT

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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

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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

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Try sheet metal screws

 

Hairy W Bush

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vice grips will help too

 

NasaGT

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robbz28 said:

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.

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

 

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2+2GT

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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

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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

 

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2+2GT

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Ford took the easy way out: