how thick sheet metal-to replace boot floor???????

redgem · tinkerer Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 368

i need to replce my boot floor but i don't know how thick the sheet metal has to be, also where can i get some for cheap in Sydney and what can i use to replace a part of the chassis rail with, steel square tube??? where can i get some of that???
thanks
Adrian

zzz · petrol head Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Posts: 1298

i think the chassi rail would be 1.5 2.0 mm
maybe not to sure but you can get replacment floor
pans from rare spare there easier than making a floor pan
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redgem · tinkerer Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 368

they are like 200 and sheet metal should cost about 60 so i will go with the sheet metal, so 1.5mm thick sheet metal for the floor???

zzz · petrol head Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Posts: 1298

1.5 2.0 for the chassi rails .8 to 1.0 for the floor
1.5 is too thick to work with .8to 1mm will be a lot eaiser

Mooch · backyard mechanic Joined: 17 Oct 2001 Posts: 573

0.66 zinc aneal is what you want for your boot floor. seam seal ur welds, grind them from underneath if you have to and then steinslag/underseal the area. For your rail use 1.5mm.

hardcoregemfreak · tinkerer Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 102

man u must really like this gem, cos personaly if it was me, dependin on how stuffed the chassi rail is id get rid of the car man, cos yea i would replace it if it was real bad id just sell it to some looser n not tell him. ha ha

redgem · tinkerer Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 368

thank you thank you....and hardcoregemfreak.... i know you mean well but that's basically what happened to me!!! but i knew the only reason i got my car for so cheap is that it needed work, i knew the floor had a crack in it but the first day i got my gem i took everything out to check it properly and a section of the chassis rail was fucked as well as the huge crack in the floor...
i just need to buy the metal anyway and me and my mate are doing the rest
Adrian
p.s i got my car for 770!!!

LowClassGeminiWhore · rice boy Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Posts: 13

$770 for a Gemini with rusted out rails? You were done like a dinner. Once the rail starts rusting out, you got a car with cancer so bad, its not worth much. Chuck it away.