GEN 3 SHO FAN
SHO Member
I know, it's another TCCA thread but I think this one is very usefull to keep a SHO safe and on the road.
When I bought my first Gen 3 SLO in 2007, I didn't know very well this car and some years later, I discovered that I had a somewhat big hole on floor on the drive side (which will not pass an inspection).
It's appears that water and salt entered by the small hole of the parking brake thru years and salt activated by heat in the interior, eat the floor rapidly. When I bought my second SLO, I tought some time to prevent/resolve this and here is what I have done.
Material :
-2 or 3 one foot square of venyl mosquito net sheets
-a can of pitch (not in spray)
-a brush
-a pair of work gloves
Steps :
1-Retreive the amovible carpet at the driver feet
2-Unsnap the plastic molding facing the bottom of the driver door on all his lenght (it is retaining the carpet)
3-Unsnap the vertical molding at his bottom at least (it is retaining the carpet too)
4-Raise the fixed carpet all you can, you will be able to see the parking brake cable hole, it's near under the left driver foot. After nearly 20 years, it can be taller... (If you just want to see in which state it is, you can see it by under the car. However, you can have no rust on exterior surface and many surface rust on the interior.
5- Apply a good layer of pitch all around the hole and go as far as you can to the passenger side. In fact, you will not be able to reach the left driver foot place without unsnaping and unbolting others parts but it's ok. At least, apply pitch 1 foot distance from the hole. Because the hole is in an inclinaison and water will fall on the surface where the driver feet are.
6-Take a mousquito venyl net and cut it to the middle in straight line
7-Take this net and pass the brake cable into his middle
8-Apply the net on the pitch
9-Apply another layer of pitch on the net
10- Repeat the process 2 or 3 times (to have 2 or 3 superposed nets, finish the process with pitch)
I'm running this since 7 years now and the floor still solid even in Quebec province with lot of water, salt and calcium. (And some other shit, I learn last year that gouvernement use corn sirup as an additive to salt "to keep the salt on the road surface". Yes right, but it will stick on my car too...!)
Good luck,
When I bought my first Gen 3 SLO in 2007, I didn't know very well this car and some years later, I discovered that I had a somewhat big hole on floor on the drive side (which will not pass an inspection).
It's appears that water and salt entered by the small hole of the parking brake thru years and salt activated by heat in the interior, eat the floor rapidly. When I bought my second SLO, I tought some time to prevent/resolve this and here is what I have done.
Material :
-2 or 3 one foot square of venyl mosquito net sheets
-a can of pitch (not in spray)
-a brush
-a pair of work gloves
Steps :
1-Retreive the amovible carpet at the driver feet
2-Unsnap the plastic molding facing the bottom of the driver door on all his lenght (it is retaining the carpet)
3-Unsnap the vertical molding at his bottom at least (it is retaining the carpet too)
4-Raise the fixed carpet all you can, you will be able to see the parking brake cable hole, it's near under the left driver foot. After nearly 20 years, it can be taller... (If you just want to see in which state it is, you can see it by under the car. However, you can have no rust on exterior surface and many surface rust on the interior.
5- Apply a good layer of pitch all around the hole and go as far as you can to the passenger side. In fact, you will not be able to reach the left driver foot place without unsnaping and unbolting others parts but it's ok. At least, apply pitch 1 foot distance from the hole. Because the hole is in an inclinaison and water will fall on the surface where the driver feet are.
6-Take a mousquito venyl net and cut it to the middle in straight line
7-Take this net and pass the brake cable into his middle
8-Apply the net on the pitch
9-Apply another layer of pitch on the net
10- Repeat the process 2 or 3 times (to have 2 or 3 superposed nets, finish the process with pitch)
I'm running this since 7 years now and the floor still solid even in Quebec province with lot of water, salt and calcium. (And some other shit, I learn last year that gouvernement use corn sirup as an additive to salt "to keep the salt on the road surface". Yes right, but it will stick on my car too...!)
Good luck,
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