After a few years of having to store my 87 T under a tarp in Florida, I knew I would have some issues to fix. Now that I have had my house built and my T is in it's permanent stable, I pulled the carpet and went to work. This is how the pan looked after I pulled the rug to assess the damage. The worst area was on the rear passenger pan with the biggest hole being about the circumference of a nickel. The rest of the pan has mostly surface rust with very few small holes that went through.
Once I vacuumed the majority of the loose rust and dirt out, I spent about 3 hours with my electric drill and a wire wheel cleaning everything up to bare metal in the rusted areas and put a good scratch on the areas that were not rusted.
Once I got it to this point, I realized that this project would be a good candidate for the POR15 Trunk and Floor Pan Kit. Originally thought about having a friend weld in some fresh metal, but decided I could get a good solid floor with POR15 Kit. So I went ahead an ordered it on Amazon and a few days later I had it and watched a few videos on Youtube of it being applied. Basically just followed the directions and it was painless. Started with the degreaser and then the metal prep. To do this I just applied each using a spray bottle. Once applied I took several 5 gallon buckets of clean water and washed the pan out. I soaked up the water with a shammy and repeated until each phase was cleaned up. I let the floor dry over night with a small fan that I use at the track and got up early the next morning and got started on the POR15.
First I cut out the "power mesh" into patterns that covered all of the rusted metal by at least an inch. There is no real science to this as far as shapes. Just used what was easiest and covered everything that needed it.
Once I vacuumed the majority of the loose rust and dirt out, I spent about 3 hours with my electric drill and a wire wheel cleaning everything up to bare metal in the rusted areas and put a good scratch on the areas that were not rusted.
Once I got it to this point, I realized that this project would be a good candidate for the POR15 Trunk and Floor Pan Kit. Originally thought about having a friend weld in some fresh metal, but decided I could get a good solid floor with POR15 Kit. So I went ahead an ordered it on Amazon and a few days later I had it and watched a few videos on Youtube of it being applied. Basically just followed the directions and it was painless. Started with the degreaser and then the metal prep. To do this I just applied each using a spray bottle. Once applied I took several 5 gallon buckets of clean water and washed the pan out. I soaked up the water with a shammy and repeated until each phase was cleaned up. I let the floor dry over night with a small fan that I use at the track and got up early the next morning and got started on the POR15.
First I cut out the "power mesh" into patterns that covered all of the rusted metal by at least an inch. There is no real science to this as far as shapes. Just used what was easiest and covered everything that needed it.