Disco 1 Boot floor

Got to do boot floor this week
New one on order plus the rear flat floor support. Anyway - I wondered, does any one know what the two nuts welded on the ends of the boot floor support strap are for? I'm scratching me head here trying to work it out?
Cheers chaps

Old floor is out - what a nightmare due to old patches welded down the edges over the joints!! The box section support that does not have the brake pipe attached to it has only two rubber supports underneath - the outside two. Are the middle two missing or does it not have them. Does anyone know a part number for them? Also, the front lip along the rear seats is knackered. Is there a repair panel for it or can I use the repair lips for the sides??
Cheers

Had two and a half hours spare today so found some old radiator brackets and made up the lip for the boot floor to sit on under the rear seats. Not bad me thinks.

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Edited to add last photo - didn't realise i'd left it out! Welded new side lips today and fabricated the lip along the crossmember. The one with the plastic screw things for the carpet trim. Put photos of that tomorrow. Tomorrow's job is a couple of holes on the back of the cross member and o/s cill. Then treat rust and paint before fitting new floor and exhaust ready for MOT. happy days

Wow, what a day. Both side repair strip's welded in plus patches and the rear most lip above the fuel tank repaired with radiator brackets new fuel tank inspection cover made from some 2mm steel, hope it works. All painted plus the bottom of the new floor painted. Oh and a picture of my car seat this morning. With no floor the cats get in. I don't think my car looks like a toilet though!!

Looking pretty good Currymunster. I do believe I would take the opportunity to clean and protect all those hard to get to places that you now have easy access to before I close it up. Thankfully The boot floor isn't on my current list of things to replace, but it does need some seeing to. The rear most body mounts are though, and would probably be a lot eaiser to do with the floor out. Rock On Mate!

ironie said:

Looking pretty good Currymunster. I do believe I would take the opportunity to clean and protect all those hard to get to places that you now have easy access to before I close it up. Thankfully The boot floor isn't on my current list of things to replace, but it does need some seeing to. The rear most body mounts are though, and would probably be a lot eaiser to do with the floor out. Rock On Mate!

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Thanks Ironies,
I did tidy up the chassis but I was in such a rush to get it finished for today's MOT as it would expired tonight that I forgot to take photos. It passed. Few advisories though. Track rod end - bulge in tyre - wiper blades - corrosion in the of inner wings the obvious oil leak also a brake pipe not secured. I notice it when doing the boot floor. It runs down the side and then up the slope to under the rear seats but the clips are all broken and the pipe is too long with a couple of loops in it. Some numpty was drunk when fitting it. Does any one know the clip part numbers for down the sill and under the rear floor/seat. Or maybe even a . Parts diagram for the brake pipe route. 1995 300tdi
Least I've got a years ticket on it now!!

I believe there's a diagram in rave mate. Bearmach do a lot of the trim clips etc and you should find on eBay. Yrm make the z piece for boot lip. Sorry didn't see thread. Well done on getting another years ticket. I'd set my dog in the cats if they sh1t in mine. That's nasty!!! Usually cats are clean animals too!

resto_d1 said:

I believe there's a diagram in rave mate. Bearmach do a lot of the trim clips etc and you should find on eBay. Yrm make the z piece for boot lip. Sorry didn't see thread. Well done on getting another years ticket. I'd set my dog in the cats if they sh1t in mine. That's nasty!!! Usually cats are clean animals too!

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Thanks mate. I did it radiator brackets instead, I was quite proud of myself with it, recycling too.
I did buy the z bits for the sides but they seemed to big so that once welded the floor would have been to low and the cross members would not fit under them. So I welded then higher and had to bend the tops down which then tried the bottom lip. Did it on the end though. I looked at clips before but there was so many different types. I'll have to look under Neath to see what they look like. Haven't got rave. Never been successful installed. And I have tried a few times

I'd have a look for you but not at work this week and don't want to open my machine lol.

I got these to put in the long bit from the front to rear .... NTC9543L

Well done mate! Congrats on your positive result! mine is still a few weeks in the future.
Me being me, I suppose I would have used an elaborate concoction of wire ties.
But far be it from me to stand in the way of a man who wants to do it right

resto_d1 said:

https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/LAND-ROVER...688731?hash=item23a86ecb9b:g:uFsAAOSwtqRbfc0e

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Chrisw8 said:

I got these to put in the long bit from the front to rear .... NTC9543L

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Thanks mate.

ironie said:

Well done mate! Congrats on your positive result! mine is still a few weeks in the future.
Me being me, I suppose I would have used an elaborate concoction of wire ties.
But far be it from me to stand in the way of a man who wants to do it right

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I've done the sill ones with cable clips and nuts and bolts for now.
It's the three or so under the rear seat that I can't do as it's just a hole to push on so really need the clips. I'll get there in the end. I agree about the nuts and bolts not being loose any more. That was in the days when shop keepers wore brown aprons I can remember my dad taking me to load of shops to buy one speaker plug. The old ones with a flat pin and one small round pin. Every one sold them in pairs but he only wanted one!!!! Lol my headlight relay packed in today, something else on the list