Damaged floor pan
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Damaged floor pan
Well, I am extremely pissed. I was jacking up the front of the car to change to the brake lines. I was using the inner frame rail up front. I used the jack of course to elevate it enough to slide the jack in, before i was able to the jack slid (I guess because of the sound deadening material) and smahed the driver floor pan. Now, it is elevate about 3-4". I tired to hammer it back down with a black of wood and hammer but its not budging. Anyone have any ideas?!? I am so pissed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by beastlytalon
Well, I am extremely pissed. I was jacking up the front of the car to change to the brake lines. I was using the inner frame rail up front. I used the jack of course to elevate it enough to slide the jack in, before i was able to the jack slid (I guess because of the sound deadening material) and smahed the driver floor pan. Now, it is elevate about 3-4". I tired to hammer it back down with a black of wood and hammer but its not budging. Anyone have any ideas?!? I am so pissed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
whew man... thats rough. Next time just be a little more careful. might end up having to take it to a body shop to see if they could help you out or give you some advide.
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Originally Posted by beastlytalon
Well, I am extremely pissed. I was jacking up the front of the car to change to the brake lines. I was using the inner frame rail up front. I used the jack of course to elevate it enough to slide the jack in, before i was able to the jack slid (I guess because of the sound deadening material) and smahed the driver floor pan. Now, it is elevate about 3-4". I tired to hammer it back down with a black of wood and hammer but its not budging. Anyone have any ideas?!? I am so pissed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i tried the hammer too i even tried stomping it lol, you are going to need one of the drill pull things that body shops use to pull out really bad dents. Or the body shops use a welding thing with a round piece of metal around it and they slam in down until it goes back flat.
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I couldn't do much with it. I do not have any of the tools necessary to try to fix it. Tomorrow I am going to take a sledge hammer and 2x4 and pound on it. I know I may need to take it to the body shop and use their special tool. I have used this location numerous times. I just think it was finally too slippery. After it is fixed, I will need to re-underspray it too. I am glad I didn't have the wheels off yet, I hadn't even had the jack under it before it slipped. What sucks is that I am very **** about every little thing with the car and this really screwed me over. I 'yell' at my wife for hitting her shoes against the door! at least it can be fixed. Now, I am going to have to make up some hockey pucks and cut into the undertray. I will post picks tomorrow.
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Originally Posted by Links0000
damn another one of these threads, I see one of these almost every month
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OK, lemme get this straight. You jacked the car up with the oe jack or a floor jack....to get the other jack in there? I am assuming the car is lowered and the floor jack didnt have enough clearance to get under the car? I am also assuming you didnt put the first jack under the frame because the other jack was going there after you got it high enough to fit? Just trying to get everything straight here.
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Originally Posted by VtecGSR952000
OK, lemme get this straight. You jacked the car up with the oe jack or a floor jack....to get the other jack in there? I am assuming the car is lowered and the floor jack didnt have enough clearance to get under the car? I am also assuming you didnt put the first jack under the frame because the other jack was going there after you got it high enough to fit? Just trying to get everything straight here.
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Thats odd that it slid out like that! I usually jack mine up the same way! If it were mine I would pull the trim back, pull back the carpet and hit it with a sledge till it was close and then try and use the board. probably no other way to fix it. It will be close but if you want it perfect you will probably have to get the floor pan section replaced and you dont wanna mess with that.
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