Hello everyone, my name is Zack and I pretty new to the site still. Well anyways I am 16 and will be recieving my license in December. Last summer, i pulled my dads old 1986 gmc sierra classic out of the ground. It was sitting for eight years rusting into the ground and on its way to the junkyard. Well me being young and dumb, i pulled it out from the ground and trailered it to my grandparents house (grandfather runs his own business and has all the tools and buildings to work on it). I had talked my parents into my point of view, by saying it is a learning experience (I am planning on being a mechanic). Well they agreed to let me resurrect the truck. So i had the truck at the grandparents house on the trailer, and went to the junkyard to get a set of tires. I then got the tires all put on the rims and balanced. After i had put the tires on the truck, me and my grandfather proceeded to try and start the beast. While the truck was still up on the trailer, we hooked up three batteries to the truck so we could crank it without draining the battery (we had the battery we bought and put in the truck, ran jumper cables to a marine battery he have laying around that we use to jump machines we have and such, and also had jumpers running from the battery in the truck to our one ton service truck). Well i went to the cab and started cranking while my grandfather was dumping gas into the carb, and after about 30 seconds of cranking she roared to life. we backed it right off the trailer, into our shop. From then on i worked on restoring it. I had the whole truck almost finished, and all it had cost me was $250. (GOTTA LOVE JUNKYARDS!!) Then about 4 weeks ago i got a crazy idea in my head that i should put the truck on craigslist. Well 24 hours later the truck was gone and i now have a 1986 iroc z camaro with factory t-tops sitting in my driveway. It was a fair trade, my truck for the camaro. I dont know about you guys, but if you ask me I say thats a pretty good trade!


Well anyways, I am now in the process of fixing up the camaro. (the camaro was in daily driver condition, but there was a decent amount of things wrong with it) So now I have the interior all stripped from the car and I need to put in new floor pans..... well I looked up the price of new floor pans and said the hell with that idea.... I am planning on making my own out of about 20 gauge steel. I know how to weld and have mig welded in pans before. (put in pans on my auto teachers 79 trans am at school) The only problem is that I dont have a mig welder..... But I have an arc welder laying around..... my dad had gave me the idea of if I get the right size rods and adjust the welder, I should be able to tack them all in for good. To me that actually sounds like a very good idea and I think I want to do that. The only problem is that I dont know if that is possible..


Can you put in floor pans with an arc welder by tacking them in all around?

 

no one?

 

I have limited use with welding(mostly stick welding), but why not just lay an ugly bead with the arc and continue on because carpet will be covering it anyways??