How To Fix Pin Holes In Floor Pans

I would recommend cleaning away the rust with a drill mounted wire brush though rather than grinding because that removes the rust from the surface and pits but doesn t thin out the floorpan.

How to fix pin holes in floor pans.

Floor pans are the base metal layer of a vehicle s floor that everything else rests on. One of the best ways to patch the holes is with fiberglass sheeting. Do some searching on it as its harzardous stuff but it really stops rust if you have the metal prepped right. What i did was paint the entire floor on the inside of the car with por15.

Pin holes everyone s got em. However sometimes it is necessary to repair holes in the bottom of the floor pan. The previous owner had chosen to ignore the small rust holes and just roll a coating of some sort possibly truck bed coating over the front half of the floor and called it a day. If they are few and far between the quickest way to fix pinholes in your floor pans is applying a sealer like por 15.

This is most common for older cars. This is a permanent repair though it s not advisable to consider this a fix for those fred flintstone floorpans where there s more open air than sheetmetal. Most of the time like their name suggests. Usually the pans do not rust or need repairs.

See all 24. The rest of the pan was fine and in some cases its not worth it to replace the pan just for a few holes.