2004 International 7300

[materthegreater]

...presently......a wee bit more rust, and the seat will be lower....

Still not low enough. The top of the frame is about the same height as my belly button.

 

[AMBMike]

Still not low enough. The top of the frame is about the same height as my belly button.

@DDoug may not have been only talking about the rust on the floor pan...

Have you checked the frame? That may be lower to the ground in another year...

 

[materthegreater]

@DDoug may not have been only talking about the rust on the floor pan...

Have you checked the frame? That may be lower to the ground in another year...

Thankfully the frame is still solid. Needs to be blasted and painted, but still solid.

 

[mekanik]

Water gets under the floor mat and it stays there until it rusts the floor away. The cab structure doesent seem to rust as bad and the doors also don't rust.
Cut the rusted metal out and make panels to fit. Its not a bad job.I couldn't tell you how many I have done.

 

[Willie B]

Seth took the rubber mat out of mine several years ago, but I just noticed a couple tiny perforations in the floor. One more project I didn't need!

 

[Willie B]

I've told this story too many times:
Before we were married, the lovely future Mrs. B. was a college student.
I was building a house without a mortgage, money was tight. I bought her a clunker car to get to school. I've always called her an automotive hypochondriac. There was always a funny noise, imaginary problem.
One weekend it was "The seat sits funny."
I had work to do, paid little attention.
Sunday night she hopped into the driver's seat, in a second she was sitting on the ground, couldn't see over the dash. I spent the night replacing the floor. She left at 5:00 AM.

 

[materthegreater]

Salty snow comes in on boots and then the warm air from the heater makes rust very happy. The driver side rocker is quite bad, the passenger side outer seems fine but the inner needs to be replaced. Some of the cross members on the driver side need to be replaced also.

 

[materthegreater]

Water gets under the floor mat and it stays there until it rusts the floor away. The cab structure doesent seem to rust as bad and the doors also don't rust.
Cut the rusted metal out and make panels to fit. Its not a bad job.I couldn't tell you how many I have done.

What's the purpose of the raised areas? Would it make much difference if I just made it all flat?



The doors aren't rusty, but the paint has been falling off in sheets

 

[materthegreater]

@DDoug may not have been only talking about the rust on the floor pan...

Have you checked the frame? That may be lower to the ground in another year...

Frame below the driver seat:

 

[HarleyHappy]

You could leave out the raised sections but you’d be like sitting in a low rider.
Lol

 

[DMiller]

Floor pans were at one time Flat, manufacturers added structure to seats or other floor mounted parts to put at correct height. Easier to stamp the pans, also raises fasteners out of debris settle points.

 

[materthegreater]

You could leave out the raised sections but you’d be like sitting in a low rider.
Lol

Need to get a tall shifter and tinted windows to go with it. And spikes on the lug nuts.

 

[materthegreater]

Floor pans were at one time Flat, manufacturers added structure to seats or other floor mounted parts to put at correct height. Easier to stamp the pans, also raises fasteners out of debris settle points.

The raised areas are less than an inch higher. Gives the salt water somewhere to collect.

 

[materthegreater]

Is there something special about International paint formulas? I tried the two local auto parts stores and neither can mix this color. Code 6680.

 

[Willie B]

Floor pans were at one time Flat, manufacturers added structure to seats or other floor mounted parts to put at correct height. Easier to stamp the pans, also raises fasteners out of debris settle points.

My old Dodge Brothers trucks had wooden floors. Of course they also had the gas filler in front of the driver seat. I've never been a smoker, plenty of drivers were!