The sand blasting for the tub took just under 4 hours and was done by a professional sand blaster.
Even the pros miss a few spots. Notice the firewall brace on the driver's side and the inside of the toolbox. If I had tried to do this with my 50 lb sized sand blaster, it would have taken me all week.
The back end of the jeep cleaned up really nice. Surprisingly, there were no rust-through holes despite the surface rust that use to be there.
This picture shows how nice the sheet steel is, especially in the back half.
This is the bottom of the driver's side floor. The hat channel is obviously going to get replaced. I've got quite a few pinhole leaks where the floor folds up for the transmission tunnel. I am not sure how I will fix that.
This is the top of the driver floor. The sand blasting exposed many more pinholes than I expected. It also showed me just how rough this panel is. Now I have to decide if I want to replace it or try to repair it with something like JB Weld.
This shows the hat channels and some of the rust through on the passenger side floor. It also shows the bullet holes through the floor of the toolbox. From this side, the overall floor pitting doesn't look too bad. There are just a few holes through the sheet steel.
This shows how bad the passenger and toolbox floors are. I think these panels definitely need to be replaced. I will probably remove the oak from the hat channels and replace it with box tube crush sleeves at each of the holes.
I want to save this Jeep toolbox panel as best as I can. The bottom lip is badly corroded. I may have to put a backing plate inside the box and use a filler on this face to bring the metal out smooth.
