I can't quite visualized the area you mean, but was there any traces of gasket
material or sealant in there originally? It is possible that the factory got it
wrong and had a gap to fill.
George Schiro
"John T. Blair" wrote:
> Well, I finally got the rear floor pan back under the body. Now all I have to
> do is finish gluing the quarter panels to the rear floor pan, and to the B
> pillars.
>
> But I have a question for anyone. There is a metal "L"ish bar that goes
> across
> the car at the B pillars. The rear vertical portion of the front floor pan
> is glued and pop riveted to this. Where this bar turns horizontal and goes
> towards the rear of the car, there are lots of holes in the bar that aligh
> with holes in rear horizontal lip of the front floor pan. Now that I have
> everything in place, there is about 3/8" to 1/2" air gap between where this
> bar is horizontal and the horizontal lip at the rear of the front floor pan.
>
> Is this supposed to be this way?
>
> When I put the front floor pan in place, I aligned the holes in the rear
> vertical wall of the floor pan with the holes in the vertical portion of
> this bar and held the floor pan in place with screws and nuts. I also
> bolted the front of the floor pan to the fiberglass portion of the firewall.
> Then I checked the side panels for fit. Once everything was lined up I put
> glue on the back of the floor pan and pop rivited it to the vertical portion
> of the B pillar L brace. Then I glued and pop rivited the side walls in
> place.
>
> If I were to drill out the pop rivits in the vertical portion of the L brace,
> and try and jack up the floor pan the 3/8 - 1/2" till it is flush with the
> horizontal portion of the L brace, I'm affraid that this will move the side
> panels up that much, and they won't fit.
>
> Anyone had this problem? Anyone have any ideas if I'm right having an
> air gap there? I've though about making a small wooden shim to put in the
> air gap. The only problem then is, I don't think I can get pop rivits
> long enough to go through the metal L brace, the wood shim and the fiberglass.
>
> I'm open to comments or suggestions.
>
> TIA
>
> John
>
> John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
> Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229
>
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