Cockpit floor problem

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winston

The cockpit floor of my '77 Hunter feels spongy and I do not know if the fiberglass has delaminated. I'd appreciate any suggestions for a fix. Thanks in advance.
 
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Jeff D

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Check through the archives, this has been discussed many times. Personal experience is that injecting epoxy is not a good fix. Best to cut out the floor fiberglass in one piece and remove the wet core, replace the core plywood and epoxy the floor back on. Others have attacked the problem from underneath butyo are fighting gravity.
 
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scott

Winston I had delam with no water

intrusion in my cockpit floor. The floor would "crack" when it was flexed, as if glass fibers were rubbing. When I drilled small holes half way through the floor the plywood shavings that came out were dry. So I drilled apprx 1/8 inch holes in a one inch square pattern ( put tape on the bit as a marker so I wouldn't drill through the floor) at the soft spots and injected with epoxy with a plastic syringe. The epoxy took about 30 minutes to set up, so I just kept topping up the holes during this time. The floor still flexes if you jump down on it, put no more "crunching" sound. Check the archives too. Scott
 
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