How To Fix Small Holes In Floor Pan

Fiberglass is by far the best non welding fix for pinholes and other small holes.

How to fix small holes in floor pan. Cheap car floor pan fix solid overview how to. This is an older video i had just sat on my laptop waiting to upload. Floor pans are the base metal layer of a vehicle s floor that everything else rests on. One of the best ways to patch the holes is with fiberglass.

Hi i m hannah and this is my van life channel. But you only could see the holes if put a shop light under the floor. I m pretty happy with the results. This is most common for older cars.

I would recommend cleaning away the rust with a drill mounted wire brush though rather than grinding because that removes the rust from the surface and pits but doesn t thin out the floorpan. The previous owner had chosen to ignore the small rust holes and just roll a coating of some sort possibly truck bed coating over the front half of the floor and called it a day. The driver side toe board had an actual hole where it met the front floor pan. The passenger side was fairly rough.

Usually the pans do not rust or need repairs. However sometimes it is necessary to repair holes in the bottom of the floor pan. I never bought any after market replacement patch panels or floor pans for a car. We decided instead to treat the rusty metal with por 15 and then repair the small rust holes with the epoxy putty.

How i patched small holes in the floor after we removed the plumbing from the old tub. Some might say i did a hac. Among its many products the latest from por 15 is a complete floorpan restoration kit offering a combination of the classic por 15 chemicals along with a sizeable offering of the two part epoxy putty and fiberglass mat material.