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Old Feb 27, 2009 | 04:12 PM
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Before I get to my questiion I got to give the background.

This morning I decide to skip school to go play in the mud because I only had half a day. All went well till I went to leave going throught the last hole I slid sideways and smacked the side of a rut on the driver side door and finished busting out the rest of my floor. The past week I noticed my floor was rusted. NOw I have a hole about 3 inches wide and 8 inches long on my driver side front. Here is my method of fixing it because I dont have a welder.

Cutting a piece of metal off the side of an old work van to fit then cutting the All the rust out of the floor sliconing the pice down real good and screwing it down with self tappers till i can get a welder to fix it.

If anyone has a better plan speak up plz.


Ps I'm Wv I'll get pics when i get back monday.
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Old Feb 27, 2009 | 04:38 PM
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The approach you took is the one I did as well.
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Old Feb 27, 2009 | 05:35 PM
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dude you have bad luck with Cherokees...
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Old Feb 27, 2009 | 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by GTABurnout
dude you have bad luck with Cherokees...
It aint that I have bad luck its I'm just rough sometimes.

Originally Posted by acmech13
why was this moved out of technical. i have the same problem and was thinking about using 22 guage aluminum. and self tapping screws. to finish it off i was gonna paint it with bed liner.
I was about to ask the same thing. Why did yall move this? Yall are gettin to **** about thing this thread is asking for advice that is TECH.
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Old Feb 27, 2009 | 07:27 PM
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You should be fine, just make sure you coat it with paint, bedliner, under coating, something, and it should be fine for awhile. As far as why this was moved, IDK, I didn't do it.
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Old Feb 27, 2009 | 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by acmech13
why was this moved out of technical. i have the same problem and was thinking about using 22 guage aluminum. and self tapping screws. to finish it off i was gonna paint it with bed liner.
Because it is universal not specific to an XJ or a ZJ or a WJ.


BTW Alien PM Stryker he has some experience with rotted floors and bedliner.
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Old Feb 28, 2009 | 12:24 AM
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Originally Posted by COSXJFAN
You should be fine, just make sure you coat it with paint, bedliner, under coating, something, and it should be fine for awhile. As far as why this was moved, IDK, I didn't do it.
make sure you under coat it like cos said or the repair will be useless
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Old Feb 28, 2009 | 06:22 AM
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thanks to all.
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Old Mar 2, 2009 | 09:56 PM
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This is tech not offtopic.
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