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mightymidget

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This is what I found he other night as I moved forward on my rust repairs. What you are looking at is the passengerside foot well. A piece of metal was cut and shaped to fit floor boards and folded up to include upright. Where this gets crazy is they took a rubber floor mat and placed on the exposed orignal floor board then place the shaped metal on top so rubber is sandwiched between orignal floor and new floor. Then it was attached self tapping screws through the floorboards.
 
If you can't weld, laminate! :devilgrin:

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This is my other bugeye. When I got it inside the shop I got the trash out of it and was wondering why al the plywood in small pieces.............well it seems someone thought a plywood floor screwed to top of floor struts whould make a good platform to attach seats
 


Got all of the rotted plywood and then look what I found. Carpet pad. and carpet pad is made from a product sililiar to a SPONGE
 
Wow, I don't have anything that compares to the previous stories, however, the PO of my BE decided that he would hold the carpet down using tacks. Consequently, there are lots of little tiny holes in the floor pans.

The other thing is, at some point, the steel oil line that runs between the filter housing and the block was damaged and the PO used some vacuum hose to fix - which was bulging and ready to burst when I got the car...

Oh, and I cannot forget that the wrong front bearings were installed and the PO used a grinder to try to make them fit.

So, even with all the carb related issues that I'm having, my car is in a lot better shape than when I bought it...
 
mightymidget said:
Got all of the rotted plywood and then look what I found. Carpet pad. and carpet pad is made from a product sililiar to a SPONGE
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Don't be too hard on the DPO for the carpet pad. A number of the old cars I've worked on had their original material under the carpet... jute mats. Jute holds as much (if not more) water than that carpet pad.
 
I had/have similar issues withe the floorboards (sans the rubber floor-mat though!)in my BE. I suppose the way to "fix" rusted-through floors is just to lay something in on top so ones feet don't fall through!
 
dklawson said:
mightymidget said:
Got all of the rotted plywood and then look what I found. Carpet pad. and carpet pad is made from a product sililiar to a SPONGE
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Don't be too hard on the DPO for the carpet pad. A number of the old cars I've worked on had their original material under the carpet... jute mats. Jute holds as much (if not more) water than that carpet pad.
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and let's not forget that for years these were just cheap used cars - though I have to say, they're still a pretty impressive bodge!
 
Om my '68 Sprite Bugsy when I bought from DPO car would run if you sprayed starter fluid into the 1098 engine that had been transplanted in there but could not get the fuel pump to run. Engine would turn over like mad but no noises from the rear and as soon as starter fluid ran out engine would die. DPO had been beating his head against the wall for months trying to solve the engine not running issue so I got Bugsy for a good price. After a week or to of cogitating it occurred to me the battery was installed wrong. Sure enough battery was connected as positive ground in a negative ground car. A quick disconnect and turn around of the battery, turned the key and I heard tic-tic-tic coming from the right rear of the car, another further turn and Vroom, vroom. Only change that needed to be made with the originally positive ground 1098 was to repolarize the generator, a 2 minute fix.
 
And we don't want to discuss hoe DPO attempted to start engine without oil pressure gauge line installed. The port is directly opposite the clutch slave adjustment cover which of course was not installed and the engine pumped a whole lot of 20W50 sideways and into the passenger compartment. And he never bothered to clean up.
 


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This is a rubber gas line,
it is one piece from the fuel pump to the fuel filter at carburator.
It was attached at fuel pump and by "one" clamp.

The fuel line was sagging/hanging from the bottom of car 4-6" in places.

Just waiting to be caught on a stick or something.


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