How to separate rear portion of floor pan

[fwillison]

I am replacing the floor pans on my 73 standard beetle, Body On.

The outer portion is unbolted from the heater channel. The inner portion is chiseled off the tunnel lip.

But the rear is giving me problems. At the rear outer corner the floor pan switches from undermount bolts to overmount lip/weld. There is some kind of brace there.

How is this area separated?

thanks
Fred

[retterath]

I bough replacement pans that included the brace. Had to drill out the spot welds and chisel the pieces apart. Both on the car and on the new pan.

[fwillison]

I ended up chiseling out all the spot welds, leaving the rear outer corner for last.

Once the chisel got close enough to the corner to free the last spot weld, I was able to wiggle the remaining piece of the floor pan out from that brace.

The corner of the pan, where it goes from under mount to over mount slips into the brace.

Fred