74 power wagon dream truck...

89on35s said

I want to share something I learned about rocker panel replacement. Maybe everyone else knows already but don't replace more than you have to. The first side I did by removing the entire thing at the spot welds. What a huge amount of work. The second one I just cut out the bad part from the old rocker and made a patch from the replacement rocker I bought. It took a 10th of the time and it is a better repair. Good thing I already bought another truck to work on after I am done with my son's truck. It would be a shame to learn all this just to forget it again!

Cley

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Thank you for the advice!...
I only have one really bad exterior spot that's about 6 inches.. that's why I've been talking about using that rust and capsular on the inside to stop it from trying to come out. But someone has put some kind of rhino liner stuff on the outside which is probably obviously to cover up any bad body work. I'll have to heat that up and scrape it off and see what I have left. I'm agreeing with you I don't really want to take off the entire rocker panel. I may cut some holes on the back side where I can look in and possibly put more rest encapsular and then just patch the inside area that's not seen..
Right now I'm going to work on that firewall and those floors and get those all patched up and then when I go to the bottom to weld the floors from the bottom I'm going to get into those rocker panels...