My floorboard around where the base of the Accelerator Pedal mates has finally rotted away so much the pedal now goes thru the floor and rests on the exhaust pipe I have a friend who has a pop riveter and some other metal bending /grinding stuff offering to help but looking at the pedal I see it has two tabs projecting front and back which must need to be fit under maybe a metal sandwich strip perhaps. Just wondering if anyone has an idea of how to do this best since with everything rotted away I can't reference the original configuration.