Thanks Cole for the hookup on the pre-cut rubber flooring. A very high quality material and easy to trim for slight variations.
The combination of time and and the heat of south Texas have taken a toll on the backing of the factory floor mat,
causing it to disintegrate into the carpet, making the carpet sticky and unclean-able.
This and the constant mess being made by kids necessitated a need for change.
So all seats and brackets for the rear shelf, along with the trim for the side door step trim, and the rear heater vent need to be removed first. The step trim just pulls straight up. Much more simple that I thought.
I started with a regular scraper and quickly realized I would grow old and gray and put my kids through college before I finished getting the carpet up.
So I found a garden tool and put an edge on it with a bench grinder. This was quite a labor intensive project. A power scraper or industrial floor scraper with replaceable blades would probably work better. My carpet may have been worse than others due to the disentigrated floor mat backing, but it took me about 2.5 hours to get all the carpet up.
After finishing the carpet removal I test fitted the new floor and trimmed it up to fit just right.
I used a contact cement to glue it down. I put the floor in place, rolled back one half and glued it, then rolled back the other half and glued it. This helped keep it in the right place.
The holes for the rear facing seats weren't precut but some quick work with a razor knife fixed that.
Reinstalled the seats step trim and it's ready to go!