John,
If I'm remembering correctly the horizontal portion of that bar was right up
against the rear floor panel. If it isn't I'd imagine it would bend as soon
as the doors went up. Check the height of the rear floor crossmembers along
with the thickness of the body mounts on the rear floor. From the bottom of
the rear floor to where the body mount sits should be about 1.25".
The only other thing that would do it would be the in the height between the
sill plate and that 'L' bar. These dimensions could have changed when
rebuilding 'A' or 'B' pillars when replacing the sill plates.
Good Luck.
Dave Farbacher
----- Original Message -----
From: John T. Blair <jblair@exis.net>
To: <Bricklin@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 5:07 PM
Subject: Floor pans
> 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
>
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