Forgot a title again. Make up something you want to hear and pretend I wrote that.

Welding 22ga sheet sucks my ass.

I considered ending this post there, but I don't want to waste people's time by having them look at a one-sentence update.  It's just rude.

At this point, welding of the floors has reached roughly 80% completion and is expected to be wrapped up before the night's over.  Most of the work done has been grinding off the mountain ridges of filler material I'm leaving behind after each pass, which is testament to my lack of skill in metal joinery.

The grinding was presenting a pretty significant time sink until I remembered I have sand flap wheels.  Once that occurred to me, I found myself with one less reason to ever have to use grinding wheels (a welcome discovery), because removing the evidence of my use of a tool I am unfit to wield now takes only a quarter of the time it had before.  Of course, it'd be faster if I was just better at welding. 

Then again, it would be even faster if I didn't need to do any of this work in the first place.  Or any of the work to come, for that matter.  On that note, here's what's next:

1. Hitting the inside of the frame rails and possibly the new sheet with Ospho.  I'm thinking this will be easier done than said, as my current plans for getting the stuff in there involve a rechargeable aerosol can, some tubing, and a welding tip that's been drilled out to make a 360° spray nozzle.  Or a hand pumped garden sprayer.  I'll let you figure out which route I'll probably take of the two.
2. Hint: it's both, because next comes the POR-15.  I'll be using the overly-complicated spray can assembly to spray the inside of the rails, while the new floor surfaces will be a mix of brushing thinned POR into seams and tight spots, followed by using a mix of POR paste and fiberglass sheet to ensure I've made every attempt to keep this from happening again in my lifetime.
3. Drill a few holes to mount my console brackets on the transmission hump (and treat them).
4. Replace the floor mat with rubberized tar roof mat from the hardware store (seems to be the same shit as the insanely expensive automotive sound deadening mat, though at a fraction of the price).
5. Put my goddamned seats back in. Again. One more time.
6. Install fuel and trans cooler lines.
7. Same, but with an engine and transmission instead of lines.

Then it's off to the exhaust doctor for the Gremlin to get side pipes plumbed to the headers.  Then the fun begins once it returns.