Rubber Floor Mat Retainer Studs
When I repaired the rusted floor on my '66, several of the Rubber Floor Mat Retainer Studs were rusted too badly to re-use on the patch panels. The floors appear to have six (6) of these studs, but three (3) of mine were badly corroded and were removed when installing the patch panels. It looks like the originals may have been swaged in place.
I don't have access to a lathe to make these, so I looked for something similar in size and shape that could be welded on the repaired floor from the back side.
The approximate dimensions of the remaining "good" retainer studs are shown in the sketch below.
I did a little research on nail sizes and found that a 60D nail is about the right size. However, they do come with different head sizes/shapes. The best one that I found was at the orange big box store, called a 60D PoleBarn Nail (the one on the right in the pictures).
Following suggestions from this forum, I ordered a floor mat from the Truck Shop in Ca (
http://www.truckandcarshop.com). The mat has the holes pre-punched for these retainer studs, so I laid the mat in place, aligned it with the three remaining studs, and then transfer punched the locations for the other three. Then I drilled holes in the floor, trimmed the nails to length, and plug welded them from the underside of the floor.
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