Rear trunk floor, Replacement question Options

[914MF]

100th post (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/boldblue.gif) . I am going to replace the part of the trunk floor near the tailights. Are the spot welds accessible from the top ar the bottom? I searched and I found Sir Andy's post but he did not say where to access the spot welds. Thanks.

[SirAndy]

the replacement piece i got from a donor car. the piece was removed by drilling out the spotwelds so i could reuse the holes for welding it into my car.

then i cut out the old piece:
(IMG:http://www.sirandy.com/pix/914/work/054.jpg)

(IMG:http://www.sirandy.com/pix/914/work/055.jpg)

i cut along the seam, leaving a lip for the new piece to be welded to. after cutting it out, i ground down the lip along the seam (because it still had 2 layers of metal)

the replacement piece. you can see the holes from the drilled out spotwelds in the front.
in the picture, it still has the side-fender parts and the top parts of the cross beam, which i did cut off before it put it in:
(IMG:http://www.sirandy.com/pix/914/work/057.jpg)

if you follow the seam and cut it out along it, the new piece will simply slide into place from behind, not major fitting required!

here is a shot of the new piece in place, you can see where i reused the old holes for the new welds:
(IMG:http://www.sirandy.com/pix/914/07.30.2002/IMGP0261.jpg)

from the back:
(IMG:http://www.sirandy.com/pix/914/07.30.2002/IMGP0260.jpg)

one more closeup:
(IMG:http://www.sirandy.com/pix/914/07.30.2002/IMGP0264.jpg)

and lastly, a shot with fresh paint on it:
(IMG:http://www.sirandy.com/pix/914/2003.07.16/car004.JPG)


(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/beerchug.gif) Andy