Fan-tetanus!

So the next order of business was the get the rest of the rusty crap cut out of the jeep so I could start putting the floors back together. The biggest pain of all of this is that the step riser that transitions between the cargo area and the front floors was rotted out everywhere. The only thing salvageable on the entire floors is the tool box, located below the passenger seat. This had been replaced at some point in the jeeps life...luckily....replacements are 300.00. Luckily when someone replaced it, they undercoated it as well. The passenger floors had already been replaced by me over the summer, so armed with my newly acquired plasma cutter, the rear cargo area was cut out (both the upper galvanized riveted crap the previous owner put down) and the rusty underneath, the and the riser. With rust scale flying, falled, splattering, and smoke flying everywhere from burning seam sealer and old bondo....we had fun. Pictures look like crap from so much smoke and dust in the area. Here's everything stripped down except for the riser, which you can see rotted out running along side the tool box on the passenger side.



In the two upper pictures, you can see the new u-channel riser spot-welded into place. Everything works around this riser, so it had to start there. If you look right to the left of the crow-bar...you can see where the plasma cutter cut right through 2 layers of sheet metal and right through the frame cross member...lol. (Click on any pic to bring it up in more detail)


Here's a quick mock-up of the floors on the driver's side. The hole in the metal is where the fuel feed line runs under the car (keep in mind the gas tank is directly under the seat in CJ5's older than the early 70's.) The transmission shifter plate will be sandblasted and then sprayed in the same U-pol truck bedliner coating that the rest of the interior will be painted in.