I feel your pain. I bought the welded transition pan trunk floor combo, so all the panels were already welded together, but it didn’t come with the frame rails, so I still had to align the panels to the frame rails and crossmember during installation. I found it was easier to lift the transition pan assembly up first and vise grip it to the wheel wells, so it would stay put while I lifted the frame rails. As long as you use small vise grips to clamp the transition pan flanges to the wheel wells, the frame rails won’t hit them when you bring those up from underneath. I marked the frame rails while they were temp installed, which allowed me to reassemble it on the floor for welding. Any way you do it though, it’s a boatload of work.
Oh brother, did I want to jump into the phone, and help you get that into place !!! Great 👍 job otherwise, yeah it would been cleaner and easier in retrospect.. But that's what happens, when yer learning two or three trades at the same time, in home auto restoration!!!! Love the content.. Keep on going....
I hope you are ok, seeing that floor pan fall on you was not fun. It took me thee months to do the same thing when i installed my rear floorplan. I agree if I do this ever again i am going to get a complete 1 piece floor pan. Pay the money save the time.
I feel your pain. I bought the welded transition pan trunk floor combo, so all the panels were already welded together, but it didn’t come with the frame rails, so I still had to align the panels to the frame rails and crossmember during installation. I found it was easier to lift the transition pan assembly up first and vise grip it to the wheel wells, so it would stay put while I lifted the frame rails. As long as you use small vise grips to clamp the transition pan flanges to the wheel wells, the frame rails won’t hit them when you bring those up from underneath. I marked the frame rails while they were temp installed, which allowed me to reassemble it on the floor for welding. Any way you do it though, it’s a boatload of work.
Oh brother, did I want to jump into the phone, and help you get that into place !!! Great 👍 job otherwise, yeah it would been cleaner and easier in retrospect.. But that's what happens, when yer learning two or three trades at the same time, in home auto restoration!!!! Love the content.. Keep on going....
Thanks for the video. Does the inner wheelhouse get welded to frame rail or trunk floor?
It gets welded to the trunk floor if I remember correctly
@@ProjectBarn thank you!
I hope you are ok, seeing that floor pan fall on you was not fun. It took me thee months to do the same thing when i installed my rear floorplan. I agree if I do this ever again i am going to get a complete 1 piece floor pan. Pay the money save the time.
Luckily it didn't hit me. The straps held it up.
No frame jig???? 😮
Nope. Everything tuned out dead straight too!
How much money did you save by buying all the parts separate?
Not enough. Haha