{"id":3623,"date":"2025-03-01T09:19:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T15:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xk120.jagnuts.ca\/?page_id=3623"},"modified":"2025-03-09T21:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T03:25:16","slug":"epoch-13-06-interior-sheet-metal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/xk120.jagnuts.ca\/index.php\/epoch-13-06-interior-sheet-metal\/","title":{"rendered":"EPOCH 13.06 – Interior Sheet Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Interior Sheet Metal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Original sheet metal in many spots was really not that bad.<\/em><\/div><\/div>
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Lots of grease, undercoating, and acoustic sealant.<\/em><\/div><\/div>
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Original copper rivet holding asbestos board to floor panel.<\/em><\/div><\/div>
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Time to clean up the originals and do a trial fit.<\/em><\/div><\/div>
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They were much more poorly built, but the new ones were not that far off the originals.<\/em><\/div><\/div>
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The new floors did not fit well, so I thought I’d dust off the originals and compare them size for size.<\/em><\/div><\/div>
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Fit was fairly similar to new floors.<\/em><\/div><\/div>
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Trial fitting of original drivers side floor.<\/em><\/div><\/div>
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New sheet metal floors from vendor’s website.<\/em><\/div><\/div>
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The new floors did not fit well.<\/em><\/div><\/div>
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And of course a few of the captured nuts were had broken machine screws still in place and had to be removed.<\/em><\/div><\/div>
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