T-hump options?

[RedGreen]

When I bought my '78 FJ40 5 years ago, I was inexperienced with buying old trucks and wanted something immediately. I bought a piece of junk. Most of the body has been replaced with sheet steel, which actually looks pretty good. I got under the truck this past weekend to find some more oil leaks and decided the tranny has to come out again.

The problem is the PO of my Cruiser added some sheet steel to hide some of the rust holes in the floor and decided to finish it off by bondoing the drivers floor to the T-hump. I'm trying to clean everything up and paint my truck and don't know what to do with this area. Are there any other choices other than cutting the floor out and replacing it with a remanufactured piece from CCoT? Money is a big issue for this one, as my son was just born and I have way too much money into this Cruiser and couldn't sell it for what I paid for it right now. My wife isn't going to go for "just replace it with an aluminum tub."

And if you think this problem is bad, you should have seen me trying to undo the POs decision to WELD 4Runner seats to the gas tank cover.

 

[Gumby]

I wrestled with a similar problem yesterday. My trans hump no longer works because it has holes in the wrong places. I thought about making a new one from scratch, but the floor is not any where close to flat, so I ended up using most of the factory hump and building to it.
It really depends on how hacked up it is. Trans humps are not that hard to find. Lots of parts cruisers have extras. If your floor still matches the origonal curves somewhat that might be the best option. Trying to manufacture one to fit all the bends would be a bitch unless you cut the floors back quite a ways to where they flatten out.