Floor pans: thick or cheap?

[Bugged]

So I received a package today...

I placed my order by phone on monday evening and I received my order early Friday morning. Awesome service from Wolfsburg... Will definately do more business with them.

The pans fit perfect, but I needed to trim off that leftover pan. So... a quick trip to my local harbor freight to pick up an air chisel for 15 bucks. The thing kicks ass! I got all the leftover spot welds out pretty easily. It helped a lot to sharpen the chisel a lil' bit with the grinder. Hopefully it will last more than a few uses.



My buddy brought his mig welder over today too! DId some practice welds on some spare tubing and the old pans. Not too bad, but lets just say I'm not laying down beads just yet. I'll try and get some more pictures up soon, as of now my camera battery is dead...

When I weld the pan in, I should drill holes through the pan so that when I lay the pan on the frame all I have to do is fill the holes. Right? Is this the best way? Any tips before I start welding this up.

[wrenchnride247]

You have the right idea to practice, practice, practice first. As for welding the pans in you can stitch it, or plug it. Make sure your ground clamp is on bare metal, and area to be welded is bare metal (top and bottom)

Stitch welding involves doing short beads about an inch long and four to six inches apart. Careful around that factory tar board it burns easily

Plug welding involves drilling holes and filling hole with weld. If you want it to look like the factory spot welds you can grind the welds down and hit each one with a round blunt ended punch.

Regardless of which welding style used the front out side corners must be fully welded (you should remember this from grinding the old ones off) Then, when all welding is done use a good seam sealer on TOP and BOTTOM of the seams. This will get you rolling in the right direction, and back on the road for a long time.