Slick 60's

Well dang- I put in the passenger floor yesterday after banging away at the support looking for rust. Did t find any. Finished the floor and felt confident that was the worst. It appeared worse than the driver side.
This morning I opened up the floor to the driver side support bracket and cleaned it up. Got in there with a wire brush and didn't see any rust thru. Took my pointy hammer and started lightly tapping and found this stuff. The arrows are pointing to the rust holes. I could probably drill them a bit larger and plug them.

The piece of metal against the plenum (cab air vent area) is rusted. A piece chilled out. That is the bottom portion of the photo.

Replace the support or plug weld the holes? I did t find any more rust- (yet).

Well solution to the issue first is seeing how bad the rust is. I will wheel the cab outside and sandblast the supports to see how bad it is. That I guess will tell me if I gotta replace. I am on a run to look at parts in philly now. Will be back later around 5pm

so much easier to replace now with the cab off then later on down the road

True

I decided to just hack it off and put the new one on. Like Iceman said... I was already down there, and its easier to do now instead of later.


This is what I found.