Restoration question, found a motor mount, and then some Options

[westdesert]

Hi,
Helping my son with his 914 project. We have a lot of questions but for starters , we could use suggestions on repairing the rust inside of the right motor mount( pictured).
The plan is to make it safe and get it on the road. With that in mind how would you approach this spot.
thanks for any help
Kelly

[charliew]

The very innermost piece may be salveable but the mount and the outer skin which is the iner skin of the back of the long (and also the outside part, the part under the battery) is gone. I would get a good used mount from some one parting a car. And just torch yours off it's easier to just get another one. You can't just put a thicker piece in and make up for the other two pieces as you can't weld to all the pieces at the same time. Make a decision after you get the mount off on the next piece in. That may or may not be the deciding factor on whether you need new replacement panels or not. I can see some of the inner well missing to the left that is that next piece in under the mount, it's part of the outside wheel well. You might want to just replace that whole piece and put a used mount on. When you use a torch on thin sheet metal you can heat just the outer piece and blow it off, the only places to be careful of is where the tacks are as the heat will transfer at those spots and then the bottom piece might also get removed. It's really pretty easy once you see whats happening. Do a search to see how all these parts overlap to understand whats bad enough to require new parts. Just review some of the other serious rebuilds.

AA has some good info on the parts but reading where others have repaired the hell hole will show all these pieces also and in what order they go on.

Go to the threads where guys are cutting up cars and get some of your parts.

Oh yeah try to make a jig to get the mount back where it belongs while the old one is still there.

I know it looks like the short cut is just put a patch over the mount hole but the only thing holding the mount on is the spot welds to the next piece in which it only has the edge left out to maybe where the spot welds are. That piece is spot welded to the piece that you see in the hole at the edges and maybe at the tops of the corrugations where they touch.

[westdesert]

The very innermost piece may be salveable but the mount and the outer skin which is the iner skin of the back of the long (and also the outside part, the part under the battery) is gone. I would get a good used mount from some one parting a car. And just torch yours off it's easier to just get another one. You can't just put a thicker piece in and make up for the other two pieces as you can't weld to all the pieces at the same time. Make a decision after you get the mount off on the next piece in. That may or may not be the deciding factor on whether you need new replacement panels or not. I can see some of the inner well missing to the left that is that next piece in under the mount, it's part of the outside wheel well. You might want to just replace that whole piece and put a used mount on. When you use a torch on thin sheet metal you can heat just the outer piece and blow it off, the only places to be careful of is where the tacks are as the heat will transfer at those spots and then the bottom piece might also get removed. It's really pretty easy once you see whats happening. Do a search to see how all these parts overlap to understand whats bad enough to require new parts. Just review some of the other serious rebuilds.

AA has some good info on the parts but reading where others have repaired the hell hole will show all these pieces also and in what order they go on.

Go to the threads where guys are cutting up cars and get some of your parts.

Oh yeah try to make a jig to get the mount back where it belongs while the old one is still there.

I know it looks like the short cut is just put a patch over the mount hole but the only thing holding the mount on is the spot welds to the next piece in which it only has the edge left out to maybe where the spot welds are. That piece is spot welded to the piece that you see in the hole at the edges and maybe at the tops of the corrugations where they touch.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions and advise. I will start peeling layers off starting with the motor mount. Im not sure how jig would work so I will have to think on that. I think I have seen it in a thread so I will try to find it.
Here are a couple of pics of to days project. not sure if I will get them in order.
we welded in a section of floor panel. not alot but after months of tearing down and gathering parts it was good to move in a positive direction .
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