4/17 blog post

Over the weekend I did fieldwork for my project by replacing the floorboards. To do that I took out the seats removed the plastic seals, took out part of the dashboard and the center console. After that I had to take out the carpet in order to actually reach the metal of the floorboards, or what was left of it. We welded in new ones we got off a car that a guy was parting out ( he didn’t want the car but couldn’t sell it or wouldn’t have got what he wanted for it, so he sold all the good parts on it then hauls the rest to a junkyard). We were also going to clean the carpet but after we found it the entire thing was locked in fairly tight to the car we decided against it or else we would have to cut the entire thing out to clean it. We also replaced the piece of plastic that holds in the radio because the last one didn’t fit right, so the radio wasn’t really latched in and would fall out if it wasn’t pushed way up into the dashboard. All in all it was about 9 hours of work to replace the floorboards and the radio mount, with most of it being from the floorboards. The picture shows where the seat in the back would be, that hole is all from rust and is why we needed to replace the floorboards, it rusted to the point that my Dad didn’t want anybody in the back seat for fear of the floor collapsing. It was the same on the other side. Unfortunately I didn’t get a picture of the aftermath with the new ones in because I was changing the rails for the seats so they would hook in right.