F- Series Bronco

[FSeriesBronco78]

I bought my 78 in Feb. I crawled under it and looked at he condition of the floor they looked fine form underneath the Bronco The carpet in the bronco was new so I did want to pull it and look under underneath of it. I am in process of fixing the rear seal of the 351M, Rebuilding the transmissions, and transfer case.
I pulled back the carpet in the front floor pans to access the shifter boot bolts and bingo Half butt rust repair.

This brought me some concerned so I pulled the seats and the rest of the carpet in the bronco. The complete floor is nothing but thin sheet metal laid over the Extremely rusted floor. The rust does not go all the way through so that is why the floor looked fine from underneath. There is not enough metal left to even fix the floors with out hours and hours of creating new floor. I paid $3500 for my Bronco. I got gang raped on this deal.

I have spent to much money on the power train to send it to the bone yard. The frame is in great shape.

I will beginning the preparation for swapping a cab off of a 73 -79 F series Truck on to the frame and put a flat bed on it.

[MBBFord]

Got to hate rust.

Sounds like the carpet got wet on the inside several times for it to rust like that.

Good luck on the cab swap, it shouldn't be much trouble at all.