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I guess there is no "carpet delete" RPO code for 04 S-10s, S-15s. Back in the summer of '83 I bought a new S-15 without carpet, radio, pwr anything except steering or A/C. It was a 2.8, 5 speed. It had a rubber floor mat.
Can anyone locate a GM part number (or an equivelent) for the (carpet deleted), wall to wall 1 piece black rubber floor mat for my 04 SR5?
 

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Although you'd think rubber floors would be better to prevent rusting of the floors I've found just the opposite. Problem is there is no such thing as air tight flooring for our trucks. Once water gets into the pad under the rubber it has no way to evaporate so it stays permanently wet. Carpet on the other hand can breathe and will eventually dry out. Not overnight, but eventually. Especially if the truck is in the sun and the windows cracked to allow evaporation.
Best bet with either is if it gets saturated, like in a flood, is to pull the seats and hang it over a fence with the pad out.
 

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In the USAF body shop in NW Florida I repaired countless rusted out floor boards in all of the big three pick ups. It was the salt to an extent, the base was in Ft Walton Beach, right on the Gulf of Mexico. ALL the gov't trucks had factory wall to wall floor mats, with the blue jut on the back. For those that don't know jut looks like drier lint processed in to a mat. It shapes beautifully on iiregular floors like those found in vehicles. The reason they rested was operators. Every unit had a day or time to clean the trucks they used, this was part of operator maintenance. So the clean up was usually on a Friday and the the immediate supervisor would say "Y'all can go home as soon as you clean up the trucks!" So those stuck with the job were taught by those who had bad work habbits to HOSE OUT the truck! Well y'all know what happened.... the water got under the mat, mixed with some dirt and prolly some salt and now you got electrolysis; rusty formed in the presents of water and an electrolyte. Great big patches, loys of RTV to seal the patch to the floor with the help of rivets.
 

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Just hammer/torch form a aluminum sheet over top your steel. Throw a layer of stick back sound deadening material over the bare prepped steel surface with the formed aluminum on top.
Install a few studs with wingnuts to pull these aluminum sheets out easily.
You can pool water on the aluminum. Any that does get through will sit on your sound deadening. The aluminum you can pull at a car wash and spray down before wiping down the sound deadening and aluminum with a towel and reinstalling.

Did the above with a 93 in 2002. Pictures might be on a old mac. Im not looking for them at this point. You get the point.

Eventually doing this with the 91 and will take newer pictures . The 94 has a flat floor with a steel grid that aluminum will eventually be bolted to.
 

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Well I am a bit chagrinned; I figured out why Chevy didn't offer a one piece mat like they did back in (1983) the day... back then there wasn't any floor console. there was no console at all, my truck had a bench seat...
 
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