Why, just today, i decided to lift the front SOR carpet and clean the underneath for the first time in forever.
So i did. And found a little spot of rust in the corner of the DS kickpanel and the floorboard.
So i dug into the little spot with a flat blade (non-JIS) screwdriver. And found a bigger hole. Then i started digging out dirt. Then SnT sand, then Rubicon traildust. Then i took a wire brush to the little hole and found a bigger hole.
"That's a body mount i can see down there" i said to myself. "And the leaf spring. And a little bit of the road if i move sideways".
And it's not like i could put my foot through it, or lose a basketball down it, but i sure could lose a golfball, if i owned one.
I guess I'm a little late to the rust party and I'm not panicking. I've got some old license plates that i can hammer into shape and pop-rivet down to keep the snow out.
But, if there was a nicely made patch panel that i could weld in, that'd be swell.
Quite a wake-up call for me. Maybe tomorrow I'll look at the passenger floorboard.
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