73' B3 340 Duster pro touring build

Well I one thing I've been not looking forward to up till now has been the rocker panel replacements, but it is now that time. I've been debating the best approach, at first I thought a partial with a splice about half way back so thats what I did, then at that point I changed and removed the whole thing. If theres one area thats giving me grief this is it. even though its off, I find myself wondering should I mount the doors back on to insure that its straight with the bottom of the door for gap purposes, even though the inner structure is intact and it should be as simple as aligning the two, I mean the factory meathod in 1973 wasn't Rocket science. unfortunatley the weekends over and I'm outta time again oh well at least I got the rusted stuff off . As you can see I have to fabricate a 4" x 23" patch panel before the new on goes on anyway.