butcher_shawn

the the front and rear seat floors are rotting out. what is the best way to fix the problem without killing my wallet

96xj33

pull the carpet..then get some sheet metal and (if you are okay at welding) then weld the sheet metal in and if not then you can also drill holes and rivet the sheets in, but i always make sure i put alot of silicon around the edge so it dosent leak.. then get some rubberized undercoat and spray it on the underneath so it dosent rust out again.. goodluck

butcher_shawn

how thick should the sheet metal be?

posjeepxj

depends on how big of hole but 16ga is always good

96Cherokee113

I'm doing my floors sometime this week. I have some 16 g and my buddy is gonna let me use his welder, which should be plenty strong. I'll take some pictures for everyone and maybe do a writeup if I take enough pics. My drivers side floor is pretty bad and the rest will be a surprise when the interior gets ripped out. It should be fun. Afterwards, I'm undercoating everything and maybe putting the carpet back depending on how loud it is.

saleen9973

What i did was get some galvanized 16g. I cut all the bad out with a grinder then took a wire wheel to the rest of the metal and put por-15 on it. Then riveted down the metal and seamed sealed it nad i now plan to rhino line it in a few weeks. Worked great.

thebrow89

i pulled the sides off an old washing machine and cut out the rusted spots. them just hannered and cut the washingmachine sides to fit and welded them in. ral real cheap

92xjr

I had to do that this past winter, I got some 1/8" tread plate and replaced the entire passenger and driver side from front to back with it. I was worried about the weight of it but it wasn't too bad. I put a bunch of plug welds on the frame rails, welded it to the forward facing leaf spring mount and welded to my rock sliders(which are in place of my rocker panels) It worked out well I only had one leak!! forgot to put one of the bolts back in for the rear seat belts....easy fix

Good luck!!

found some pictures hope it helps...

thebrow89

dam that looks great. i wanted to do that but tread plate is to expensive

Lightfoot

That floor looks good.
I wish I would not have bought some already made replacement floor pans.

SRT-10Jeep

Good job there.

pops96

im fightin the same battle. i went to a local metal supplier and bought a 4x8 sheet of cold roll 18g for the front floors and a have a piece of 1/4 " aluminum dimond plate that in going to rivit into the cargo area and use auto body apoxy for the seems the cover the whole floor with herculiner

92xjr

I did the same thing in the my cargo area! NICE!!!

I got a 4'x7' sheet of the tread plate from the scrap yard for $100, I figure I have probably about $200 into it with suplies and such. Keep your eye out in the scrap yards you can find some hidden treasures...

thanks guys

posjeepxj2

its a jeep thing i just got done cutting out and replacing 80% of my floor used some shelving and random pieces of sheet metal to get it accomplished and bedliner and better than new also iam going to put holes in for draining purposes using pvc and screw on caps

brutalxj

I did my floors too it would have been much eazyer to find a good floor in a bone yard. It would prob take a few doners but it would save time. And if you know the place you can get it for free.