Floor boards

[LS954]

so i finally got around to getting my GN up here to MD from VA, it had been at my buddys house down there with a cover on till i was able to bring it up. So the next morning i look over to the rear of the car on the passenger side and noticed the carpet was drenched with water so i took couple of towels dried it off best i could being that it was in the 30s, i pulled the carpet at the back of the vehicle and didnt see anything major just some surface rust and some bubbling of the factory coating.
Today i got around the removing both seats, center console and pulled out the carper along with the padding, again nothing too bad from the initial look. I took my wire wheel and drill and started going at all the spots that had rust, a couple of which had some good size pitting and 2 very small pin holes which appear to go through, they were real small to where i couldn't even fit .032 safety wire through. Now i have a lot of bare metal spots, some with pits some with out, any recommendations as far as protection? I been looking online and leaning towards a product called Miracle Paint, seems easy to use and dries rock hard. Also for the areas with the pitting and the fine pin holes, what can i use to fill them in? I saw one video where the guy recommends using the Miracle Paint and impregnating fiber glass to use on non-structural areas of a car, and he used the floor boards as an example.
I will be leaving the padding and carpet off till i find exactly where the water is coming from but i would like to get the areas of bare metal treated asap, right now i just applied some amlguard i got from my job to keep the bare metal spots from starting to rust.

 

[greybuick]

You can use por15 or rust encapselator from Eastwood company.

 

[LS954]

POR 15 was my first choice but then i saw its a three step process and from reading some of the reviews you really have to follow the steps down the a T. Rust encapsulation was my second choice but i like how the miracle paint is thicker and dries pretty hard. Those have been the only three I've looked into.

 

[RUDE DOG]

I would be looking at the windshield and the heater a/c box, since mine had the wet carpet and very rusty floor. Heres a pic of the area where the water was getting in on my car.

 

[LS954]

those were my other two possible spots where it could be coming from..this car has always been outside with just the cover on and this is the first time I've seen this.

 

[RUDE DOG]

Yepp mine sat outside for a while, i thought it was safe from the elements with a big tarp and when i was finally ready to work on it, i brought her into the garage and found the wet carpet, then the rust and a small project turned into a frame off because 60% of the floors were gone. Good luck with your car, hope you dont find what i did.

 

[LS954]

well the floors are fine ive already sanded down the areas that had any type of rust, just have two small pin hole that go through, small enough to where i cant even fit a piece of .032 safety wire and couple of spots with pitting.

 

[chopped39]

Thats what I started with untill I dug out the seam sealer. Then the body came off the frame. When I got into the rockers it got bad. I started making my own rockers untill in seen the sherman floor sections that come with the inner rockers made into them. Brian at gbodyparts came through on the floor pan I was gonna por 15 the top and bottom of the floors when ready

 

[LS954]

here some pictures of the passenger side floor boards and the t-top frame, i decided to go ahead and take off the old seals and all the brackets

 

[RUDE DOG]

Doesnt look too bad, ive seen worse on the t tops, the floor isnt so bad either.

 

[LS954]

thats what i was thinking. as far as the t-tops go i havent removed any loos rust but as far as i can see there are no hole going into the body, the only hole that was visible was on the passenger side(the tenth picture) and its in the channel where the seal sits in..there are no places near by that do sand blasting so i might just go at it with the wire brush first then very carefully with the wire wheel and see where im at, if there arent any holes i might just go ahead and use on the the rust products and go from there.

 

[chopped39]

The floors are not bad at all. The roof has to be cleaned off first. If there are holes you might want to get the windshield out and make sure thats not rusted in corners. The water will also run down the piller behind the kick panel where hinges bolt to cowl.If there is surface rust you can get the spray can of stuff from eastwod internal frame coating its called. Its green but who cares you cant see it anyways. If there are holes in corners by windshield I would spray it in there as well.It works good. It comes with a tube and nozzle that will fit in small holes. If the ac box is leaking you can get the gasket that goes in between box and body for like 20 bucks from brian at gbodyparts.good luck