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Old 03-11-2014, 01:30 PM   #114
skorpioskorpio
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Re: Project Madera: A Jimmy GT

As expected, everything under the rockers is kinda toast. A & B pillars gone at the bottom.

Rocker horrors:
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...and some floor blow through, fortunately it's basically isolated to a easy to fab flat patch.
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I already have rockers, floor ends, pillar patches so I think I'm all good in this area. Those Jimmy/Blazer specific areas seem pretty solid nothing into the quarters at all. I am going to punch and dimple the floor ends (under where the sile plates go and the "wall" between the floor ends and the torque boxes) I am also going to do the same on the top of the rocker panels and cover it with a threshhold plate. I may punch the bottom of the rockers too, and a few higher in the pillars, we'll see, the point to this is so that it gets powder coated on the inside of these areas as well as providing ventilation and drainage. This trucks days of driving through the mud are over, but that doesn't mean it won't still get wet in there once in a while. Besides by the time I'm done punching and flaring holes in the body, I'll probably shed a fair few pounds and make the body more ridgid in the process.
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