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looking for info on replacing floor and trunk pans ?

Started by Murray, February 13, 2014, 03:14:50 PM

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Murray

I started to grind the floors and trunk on 69 charger. I found that the floors have pin holes and are thin in places as well as the loud pedal mounting holes have defiantly seen better days. Now the trunk is a different story, the center of the trunk pan is rotted, pulled the vinyl trunk pad and found what I thought was a lot of surface rust, WOW was I wrong  :brickwall: . I proceeded to keep grinding away rust with my wire wheel and it only got worse  :RantExplode: . I was wondering if I need to brace the chassis to replace either, parts of the floor pan or the entire floor panel to prevent warping? The trunk im not to worried im going to cut out the center and replace to bad section. Does anyone have any suggestions ???

Dino

When a hardtop car has a healthy frame then you do not have to brace it to cut out the rot panels.  There is always a limit of course but the things you mention can be done as is, no worries. 
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Murray

Ok thanks a lot, Do you recommend any specific brand of pans to go with??

58pwrwgn

   You will need a two piece trunk floor if you will be installin g it through the truck opening. I got mine off craigslist so I don't know who made it.  It didn't have the rear flange that is used to spot weld the trunk pan to the taillight panel. I had to add it

69bronzeT5

Quote from: Murray on February 13, 2014, 04:41:42 PM
Ok thanks a lot, Do you recommend any specific brand of pans to go with??

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1969 Charger: T5 Copper 383 Automatic
1970 Challenger R/T: FC7 Plum Crazy 440 Automatic
1970 GTO: Black 400 Ram Air III 4-Speed
1971 Charger Super Bee: GY3 Citron Yella 440 4-Speed
1972 Charger: FE5 Red 360 Automatic
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tsmithae

Quote from: 69bronzeT5 on February 15, 2014, 05:12:47 PM
Quote from: Murray on February 13, 2014, 04:41:42 PM
Ok thanks a lot, Do you recommend any specific brand of pans to go with??

AMD, AMD, AMD and AMD..... ;)

Agreed, the trunk floor on mine dropped in so nicely it was scary. 
Check out my full thread and progress here.

http://www.1970chargerregistry.com/mboard/index.php?topic=119.0

NHCharger

I replaced both floor pans and the trunk floor in my 68. Used AMD, quality stuff. Check the link below, he's a board member here.

http://www.521restorations.com/index.pl?page=allmodels&sub1=Moulding
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