It started raining on me so I figured it was a good time to post this. The thing with the rust under it is a cleanout door for the cowl. That rust is from the mouse nest I was told was in my heater and had been removed for $225! After I vacuumed it a lot of the metal is gone. I have ospho'd the heck out of it and the insides and will rebuild it with JB weld once that works its magic. A couple pics of the passenger side which is clean.
so that is where the mouse was!.jpg passenger cleanoutclosed.jpg passenger cleanout open.jpg