Rear seat / subframe mount bushing. Needed?

[farmorejustin]

Hi everyone. I'm VERY new here, but just purchased a '76 2002 automatic from Alabama earlier this May and it is my first '02. I've wanted one for a good five years, but wanted an automatic purely for convenience.

I have POR-15 painted the subframe and am working on the floors (which are rusty as it has a sunroof, but I noticed this and haven't found mention of it anywhere. It is that worn bushing inside under the rear seats above the subframe mount bolt hole. (that black thing is the seat belt) Should I replace this? Where can I find it? I'm mostly just wanting to DRIVE the car again (very exciting) but it'll be in winter so doing all my stuff now so I don't have to later.

Thank you in advance.

Justin

[Koblenz]

Pass

[TobyB]

That's just some gunk on top of the rear subframe mount bolts boss.

Scrape it off- there's no bushing there. Just rust.

Which would make me nervous if you found holes around that area-

it's one of the few places on a 2002 that should be pretty stout.

And it's hard to fix.

t

[farmorejustin]

The only rust in that area actually is just was is in the picture, those small holes to the right of the hole. It's very solid underneath. I just put POR-15 over the holes, put a fiberglass mat and resin over that, and POR'd again...seems very solid now. Pic below is after the first paint.

Thanks for the help. Just trying to get this thing as correct as possible within budget.

[potentialm20]

Not sure the fiber glass patch is going to cut it... It is hard to really assess the rust from those pictures. You can always weld up later if it does punch through. Hopefully it won't happen at a high speed....