The next pic shows the driver side with the new front and rear door pillars just installed. Next to go on is the outer rocker and then a door fit test, then it's on to the cab corners. Welder is getting a work out and so is Bob!
There are many ways of treating inside panels. I've decided on coating everything with a Zinc rich galvanizing welding primer. I could have used POR or even undercoating but those are time consuming and messy. The galvanized coating is the perfect coating in between panels getting welded to prevent corrosion and should do the trick especially since this vehicle won't see any bad weather anyway.
During this time I've also been working on the frame, rear axle assembly, leaf springs and assorted brackets. Each is getting a thorough wire wheeling and cleaning, then metal prepped for POR 15 and painted. I found it helpful to coat with their silver as (shown below) for the first coat, then go with semi black for the second. It helps to avoid any missed areas. This is not the finish coat, it will be finished with chassis coat which is a nice semi gloss satin black. These pieces are coming out real nice and when done, you'll never even know there is POR15 under the finish coat. Best of all, it should never rust again!
Last pic is the new shocks just sprayed in gloss gray Rustoleum hanging around to dry.
In my search of what the correct color for the shocks should be, gray turned up the most so that's what I'm going with. They aren't the original spiral type but at least they'll have a nice gray color!