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    Fixing holes in the floor without buying floor pans

    It's quicker to replace the front pans than to try to patch it up, on the rear wheelhouse I would clean it up and trim back to clean metal then make a patch with 20ga steel and weld it in. When I put the front pans in my Dart I cut around the perimeter with a sawzall then ripped them out by...
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    factory aluminum trunk lid... check this out

    The 76 Feather I had used a steel trans X member and had a 3.21 8.25, it did have an aluminum 1 barrel intake and aluminum case 833od, the fenders weighed the same as standard Duster fenders. I drove it daily for a few months before swapping in a 360/833 and got 24-25mpg with the /6. I parted...
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    Help fix my flimsy metal!

    Heat up a spot in the middle if the oil can area until it's red and quench it with water, it will shrink the metal, you may have to do it in 2-3 other areas but smaller to get all of it out. A shrinking hammer works but you also run the risk of making it worse if you don't know what you are...
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    Floorpan Rust

    Nothing you can do really besides cut them out and start prepping for new pans, the guy who had my Dart was driving it with them like that and it needed a trip to the frame machine to get the unibody straightened back up before I installed new pans. I would cut them out to prevent the rust...
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