Rear Floor nearside Part 2

It's amazing what can be achieved in a fairly short amount of time (and equally amazing how nothing gets done over years, like my TR7). Time spent in the garage today was only about three and a half hours, but I managed to get the rear floor welded in and with relatively few dramas.

Yikes, no floor.

Yikes, still no floor.
 

Before the panel could be welded in place, it was necessary to trim it here and there, plus drill some holes for plug welding. The panel fitted pretty well, although I couldn't get a perfect fit everywhere which resulted in the big drain hole being slightly too near the gearbox tunnel side of the floor.

Ah, that's better. A floor clamped in place.

...and welded in.

The panel was stitched in at intervals to start with in order to minimise excessive heat build up, and I used a sort of "short burst" method of welding which stopped me blowing too many holes. My welding is improving and again today's was done with the MIG turned up high to get maximum penetration. That's quite difficult as much of the metal is very thin. But it worked.

 

Note the plug welds to replace the factory spot welds.

Next job is to grind the welds down, flip the car and get back to work on repairing the rear bulkhead and trailing arm sections.