Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Fabricating a New Floor

The next project was to deal with the lack of a floor. I started by Cutting out the floor and lower fire-wall from the Ranger cab. This was then cut to size and fit inside the 1938.

This picture shows the ranger floor and the modified firewall.


By doing this I got the transmission cover body mounts and seat mounts all in one operation along with the gas, clutch and Brake pedals and mount. The rest of the floor was then constructed from flat sheets and angle all welded together.

The tricky part was fabricating the rocker panels which had a curve and I had no model to work from only pictures of other cars.



After fabrication of the missing floor all the body panels were again assembled to the body and the laser level was again used to ensure proper center line and alignment of all panels was maintained.

This picture shows the finished floor from the bottom looking forward.



Next the seats were fitted and the rear seat brackets modified as required to fit to the new floor.

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