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Got to do some repairs this year,small hole in nearside footwell and nearside outer sill. What gauge plate would be best for floorpan or can you get a panel to replace whole area? and which sill is best to use to fit?
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IIRC you can butcher a mk5 escort cill to fit and then id buy a length of angle repair section for the inner cill section and neatly join it all in. Not sure on the gauge though but i would think no more than about 1mmOriginally posted by john trott View Post
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Mark five escort sill will fit here is ones in modded to fit to an escos.
as for the gauge of steel for your repair i just buy coach metal sheets find them good.
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1mm is fine.
Try not to go overboard and use battleship plate steel, as this causes more problems later down the line. The metal has to flex at a similar rate to the surrounding metal or else it will slowly cause fatigue fractures ( Over time).The repair also needs to deform in an impact at a similar rate to the surrounding steel.
Remember its a sierra floor pan so you could get a section of floor from a scrappy, or maybe some one has thought ahead and has cut sections out of Sierras already and sells the floor edges???
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Cheers for the replies,very helpful. I wonder if Ford do a repair floor pan panel?
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is it actually a sierra floorpan though - do you not have to shorten the prop when doing a 2wd conversion???
one for the road?? ......
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The floor pan is 100mm shorter. i got into building a few ESCOS rally shells for a few people using a MK 5 fwd shell and a Sierra 4x4 floor and tunnel. Looked fine but was on a MK 5 log book. A lot of work, but at the time you couldn't get an ESCOS shell for love nor money and if you could they were ££££.Originally posted by sixaxles View Postis it actually a sierra floorpan though - do you not have to shorten the prop when doing a 2wd conversion???
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