What's the name of this frame piece?

[beetlenut1]

A red arrow is pointing to the piece I need to replace. The yellow circle is why.

[david58]

You need floor pans and that is part of the floor pan I don't think it is sold separately.

[beetlenut1]

OK, now I'm confused. In the two pics below of Doc's restoration, you can see the remaining frame extension, that holds the rear edge of the floorpan in place, once the old floor pans were removed. That's the piece I'm looking for since the rear quarter pan I'm welding in attaches to that, and doesn't have that.





I guess that piece is included in a full pan replacement as shown in another of Doc's photos. So....?

[beetlenut1]

Alright, after some more clean-up, I think this piece might be sold as a repair section. After cutting out the old rear pan quarter, had to remove the remaining spot-welds around the edges. Notice that the pan section was also spot-welded to the rear extension.



The lip all cleaned up:


The rear quarter floor without the rear extension:

[beetlenut1]

Ok, I sort of found what I was looking for. It's called a rear cross brace. Wolfsburg West sells a Floor Plate kit that contains this part to be welded in by the DIYer. Now I have to search and see if I can buy just this part. Anyone know of a VW parts place that might sell this separately?

[DannyK]

I suggest you PM Doc. His are separate pieces, but may have come as a kit with the pans. Pretty sure he got them from Wolfsburg West. They are real heavy gauge/high quality pieces.

[beetlenut1]

Ok, I found out the name of the frame piece and bought it from Wolfsberg. So this was the before.

And here is after I replaced the rear cross brace, rear cross member, and fabbed up the lower package tray and front of the rear wheelwell.

[doc]

Sorry, I'm late chiming in. It's a seperate piece and you can buy from WW.

doc

[Ol'fogasaurus]

I have seen it refered to as the "rear cross piece" and the "rear cross beam". The inexpensive (Brazilian - usually primed black) pan halves have them as part of the pan half. More expensive pan halves have them come as a separate piece. I recommend that if you replace the pan half(s) do either the orange ones (I dodn't remember the origion of them) that are more expensive than the Brizilian pan halves or the OEM thickness pan halves that have recently become available.

[beetlenut1]

I got the rear cross brace from WW. They carried it seperate from the full pan halves because it made shipping cheaper. They sold me just that part. You can see it in the after pic as the gray left half of the cross brace. I was surprised at the thinness of the metal used for that piece, given it is a major floor support and was from WW. It was about half the thickness of the original cross brace!

[beetlenut1]

Ok, got the rear passenger quarter floor in.



Now the question I have is, do you apply Master series, then seam seal, or seam seal first, then Master Series. Or, Master Series, then seam seal, then another coat of Master Series?

[doc]

i sprayed primer/etcher on all bare metal spots. My floors came with a coating. Then I used seam sealer. The game is getting the metal completely encased in something to resist corrosion. I did 2 coats of the 3M seam sealer and applied liberally. Don't really know if its the right way, but I'm betting my floors won't go anywhere for a while.

Your floor looks good!

doc

[Beatlenut]

Thanks. I really got the hang of the spot welding this weekend. I turned the dial on my auto-flash helmet all the way down, and could suddenly see the weld pool! Who knew? Big difference seeing what your welding! I've been spraying all the bare metal after I weld it with Ospho, to protect it before I coat it all with something. I'm thinking I got the Ospho to flow into all the nooks and cranies before I seam seal it.