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So I chopped up the fake bed cover. Stored in the compartment is:
Rust!
Driver's side. |
Passenger side. I broke free this large chunk of rust-enhancing
foam. Sigh. | |
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The support is rusted out too. |
Better view of the driver's side. There is some bubbling on
outside of the bottom of the quarter here. | |
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You can see little tiny pinholes in the floor here. |
Better view of the support. | |
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Support removed. You can probably see the pinholes better now. |
The plasma makes it fun. I cannot tell if the lower layer here is
part of the old lid, or something for the lid to mount to for sealing
purposes. | |
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Without flash you can get a better idea of just how much rust is there. |
At least - and it's not much consolation - the "welds" didn't have
any/much penetration. | |
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Pile of removed metal grows. |
Trying to clean up the side. The shelf the panel mounts to was
gone, but there were weld gobs stuck to the panels. | |
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At least the shelf-tab-thing exists here. |
Swept and cleaned. | |
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Test fit of the panel. A couple of weld-gobs are in the way. |
Blurry closeup of the gobs. | |
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Driver's side, behind the fuel filler. Rust at the edge of the bed,
because of course there's rust. |
The bolts for the fuel tank were apparently original; I had to cut them
with a sawzall. | |
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Surprise - there's no rust in this image! |
Passenger side has the same rust at the edge of the bed. | |
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Again - a rust free image. |
Drained the fuel tank. There wasn't much in it, thankfully.
At best this is 93 octane from 2008. | |
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Need to clean it up, inside and out. |
Patched rust holes and tonneau cover snap holes in the sail panel and in
the section below the rear window. | |
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Those pinholes? They became perforations, tear at the dotted line. |
Removing the "patches" at the back of the footwell. Sigh. | |
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It's all horrible. |
So yeah. My car is made of rust and sadness.Good news though:I had thought
that I would build a battery box and mount the battery on the pass side of this
area, and hinge the lid. Now I'm not sure how I would seal that from water
- don't want to have to do this again in the future. Battery may end up in
the stock location.