Floor sheet metal replacement

There are quite a few places in the floor of the old maverick that needs replacing. Previous owners patched with glass and all sorts of crap.

I really want to cut it all out and replace it. What thickness should I get?
Should I steer away from replacing any specific areas?
Any tips or tricks?

Never going to put a rear seat in it and not worried about retaining a stock look. It will all be dynomatted and carpeted once complete.

 

18/20 gauge metal should be good enough.

 

I use 18ga, one thing I've been doing when I cut the old rusted metal out is try to keep the area I cut out as square as possible and make sure to cut back to good metal if you can,makes it easier to make your patches and spot weld back.I also bought a Flange making tool tool to make my patches look better and give me something to spot weld to, I not the best welder

 

Depending on the size and location of the patches, Mustang patch panels can be massaged into place. That is what I did.

Start at post #119 and go from there: http://mmb.maverick.to/showthread.php?t=58349&page=12

 

The Mustang panels are fairly cheap. I'd use them!

 

I cut out all of my bad floor metal as square as possible - if I needed to take an extra inch or two to reach a crossmember or the front clip metal, I would take that extra inch or so and then be able to weld at least part of the patch to something more solid than just other floor pieces

 

Thanks for all the tips guys. The reason I'd rather just do it in sheet metal is that I have access to it for free. If the mustang floor pans are cheap enough I'd buy them otherwise I'll just weld in the free stuff

Thanks

 

Thats a good read. Thanks for the link. How is that signature working out for you? Thats a real shot from the past when I saw that. I can make you an updated one sometime if you want.

Josh

 

I had a lot of good Maverick floor left so welding in new seperate steel peaces was the way to go - if you are needing complete floors, that is when I would think about the full Mustang floor pieces

 

Floor overall is pretty good but there concentrated spots where its real rough and previous owner used fiberglass to repair it.

 

Smart move getting rid of all of that old fiberglass - once you replace with new metal, use a brushable, paintable seam sealer and then coat the floor with either Rust Bullet or POR15 and it will last a long long time

 

I have some por15 in the garage I plan to use.....liquid gold

 

I have a 1970 maverick that requires floor pan replacement. Are we talking about 1970 mustang floor pans?

 

65/66 work the best in our cars, thats is my opinion...

 

65/66, thanks for the info I will go that direction.