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| posted on July 29th, 2005 at 11:58 AM |
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Temp fix untill I can afford to do it properly
just picked up my new bug and I was thinking of wire brushing or sanding pack the surface rust on the body and hitting it with some kill rust or cold
galvnit (thats what its called isnt it?)Would that be a good idea?
and with the holes in the floor pan (stupid leaking battery), same deal and maybe rivet a panel over the hole and seal it?
Looking for some ideas for temp fixes to stop it getting any worse before i get round to cutting the rust and finding a friend with a welder and some
spare panels.
Cheers Guys
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| posted on July 29th, 2005 at 12:08 PM |
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Removing the surface rust, treating it and painting it with something will make it look a bit better untill you can strip it right back to a bare
metal shell and restore it.
The plate over the holes in the floor is definitley only a very temporary fix.
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| posted on July 29th, 2005 at 01:04 PM |
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Cheers mate
Dont worry, its not a long term thing promise! just dont want her to get any worse.
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| posted on July 30th, 2005 at 06:18 PM |
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you can buy rear quarter floorpan sections (which include the battery tray) for very little money - dead easy to weld in too - got mine from mick
motors
http://www.dtsband.com - Rock and Roll is NOT dead
My other car is a scooter, and it's in even more bits than my beetle. One day they will both be back together.......
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| posted on July 30th, 2005 at 10:51 PM |
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sounds like a bit of a rat.. fix hole, slam it n drive it..
now parkin it at the shops wont be a bother at all.. 
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| posted on July 31st, 2005 at 07:55 AM |
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Thanks Battybat, yeah i reackon thats the next thing to do, but I didnt want the battery falling thru the floor whilst i'm driving  The new floor panels come with the seat rails attacted dont they?
H, rat is not the word for it. this beasty is great when i picked her up, the seat belts werent attached, the speedo was working and the key ignition
is dead so some has wired up a start button. Drives side door panel was missing and the passenger side was screwed in with a couple of odd screws!!
Couldnt be more rat if ya tried!
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| posted on July 31st, 2005 at 08:26 AM |
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reading through the posts a bit, am I right in thinking that I should fix the heater channels before removing the body to fix the pan?
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| posted on July 31st, 2005 at 06:16 PM |
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You will probably have to fix the heater channels when you take the body off the pan
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| posted on August 9th, 2005 at 11:24 PM |
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have a look at this!
http://www.nb.au.com/battybat/beetle
http://www.nb.au.com/battybat/beetlefloorpan
it's my record of the body rebuild! started of with a bad pan, then when I took the body off I found all sorts of nastiness - heater channels, inner
wheel arches, front firewall, rear wheelarch/heater channel
you can actually buy just the rear quarter, from the seat rail backwards, then cut out the old section and weld in the new - I left as much metal as I
could round the edges though - wasn't at all sure of the quality of the replacement panel - very thin - and I wanted as much reinforcement as I could
get - take a look at the floorpan web gallery for pics
welders are very reasonable now - paid $500 for my 120 gas/gasless miniMIG - well happy with it toonn[ Edited on 14-8-2005 by battybat ]
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My other car is a scooter, and it's in even more bits than my beetle. One day they will both be back together.......
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| posted on August 12th, 2005 at 11:37 AM |
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I'll have to take some photos of the floor pan as it is now.. i mean i know there is some bad jobs out there but this seems pretty unique.
looks like a previous owner has bottomed out on a stump/curb something and pushed a section of the pan under the rear seat passenger side up? nice job
finished off with a massive big hole...nn[ Edited on 12-8-2005 by Proud_Dad ]
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