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  Hi pulled the ute down has major rust in bottom of A piller where subframe bolts to body two front floor pans cross floor suports and floor hump has anyone refabacated the front bit where the subframe bolts up or any idea how to fix, mate said get rid of it and get a better shell have had the ute for 14 years so would like to see driveable please any help welcome thank you rod67

Nearly everyone has had to deal with the same problem Rod, have a look through some of the project cars and you will see a few different solutions.

Not much help, but may give you some ideas.

Cheers
JB

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v382/spannerc/
May help a bit.

nice work Spanner...

Rod,

As JB said most of them rust out here.

time to get under and get dirty I'm afraid.

The job is a little bit involved,but is fairly straight forward.


rusted out at the subframe attachment point.
(http://s1.postimage.org/a65v7uis/IMG_3000.jpg) ($2)

cut out the rust and re-fab the inner sill.. the bolt was used for alignment. A threaded rod to the inner mount was also used to establish the correct position.. lots of measuring here.
(http://s1.postimage.org/a6attw04/IMG_3002.jpg) ($2)

If you are lucky the outer hole will be there to help get the proper geometry.. if not.. repair this section first to be used as a reference point later.
(http://s1.postimage.org/a6e4wkzo/IMG_3006.jpg) ($2)

Folded steel channel crossmember repair.  I prefer to make my own than to try make the repro ones fit... it's faster and more accurate.
(http://s1.postimage.org/a6fsfxhg/IMG_3007.jpg) ($2)

Finished job including the floor repair as viewed fro below.
(http://s1.postimage.org/a6kr1yys/IMG_3013.jpg) ($2)

hope this helps

Ed

Hi i would like to thank everyone who has replied has anyone got pictures of the bottom of A pillar repair with the hole section gone where the subfame bolts up if i could work out how to put pictures up i could show the rust problem thank's again for the help rod67