show me your finished painted rocker pics.

[bowman39]

I am interested in seeing some finished rocker panel pictures, how many fill over the ends of the rockers where they meet the pillars to make a smooth look and how many leave the ends visible? and If you leave the ends visible do you trim it out with seam sealer?

[sboris]

Seam sealer

[BossHogg69]

metal finished the seam to the best of my ability, then bodywork.

[bowman39]

Originally Posted by BossHogg69

metal finished the seam to the best of my ability, then bodywork.

that looks great

[72kool]

would you come do my rockers bosshogg?? those look great!

[BossHogg69]

Thanks guys - send'em on down to Arkansas, I've been known to get bored and weld on stuff!

[hugger6933]

He can't come do your rockers he should come do some of mine I'm a lot closer
Here a a few of the one I recently did I don't have any of the finished ones off my phone yet

[BossHogg69]

Originally Posted by hugger6933

He can't come do your rockers he should come do some of mine I'm a lot closer
Here a a few of the one I recently did I don't have any of the finished ones off my phone yet

More like come over your way and learn a thing or to from you!! Maybe when my heap is finally finished, I can shoot over to your side of the state and do that!

[Boog]

dang Jim. You lay down a pretty stitch.

[hugger6933]

I only have one truck [plus my old convert LS pontiac] in the shop it is nice to have walking room around them. I do have them lined up outside to come in the shop though. Dad said three to chose from on what to work on next I told my son he is even counting the 9 old ones that need work

[hugger6933]

Bosshog have we run into each other in our course of everyday life? like maybe the sale or something?

[hugger6933]

Thanks Boog come over sometime and we can hang in my shop. I had once thought of hosting a shop day where members could come and we could pitch in to help on different projects for the day.[But i can't get cleaned out enough for it]
weather it is paint booth or lift or frame machine or other like welder or plasma cutter use for a bit.

[diggerbob]

I would like to make that trip too. I really like your work.

[bowman39]

would like to see who has a pic of their original painted rocker panel.

[mrein3]

OK. I'll play. The file dates on these are 2004 so I guess I've had them on there a while. And I never thought of smoothing them in like above. Or taking pictures with the doors open.

Those are some nice looking, seamless rockers. I never thought of doing that. I simply cut out the old and welded in the new like the general did. One side needed inner rocker work, one side did not. BTW, this was my first outwardly noticeable welding job.

bowman39 - the before picture is what an original paint rocker looks like in Minnesota.

[69chevytrucker]

found a pic of mine mid way still needed a little more smoothing i also did my door sills too

[bowman39]

those are the kind of pics i wanted to see, thanks guys. im not sure weather to go old school and leave the welds and edges showing or smooth them over. both ways look good. I would like to see what the seem sealer looks like painted over on the originals.

[Taibo]

Originally Posted by bowman39

those are the kind of pics i wanted to see, thanks guys. im not sure weather to go old school and leave the welds and edges showing or smooth them over. both ways look good. I would like to see what the seem sealer looks like painted over on the originals.

Mine were rust free (go figure that out on a 48 year old truck) so no one has ever messed with them. This is how the factory did it:

[cwaite12025]

Hey with this post I wanted to ask,where is everybody ordering new rockers from? I want make sure I find some that fit in decent and are good quality!

Thanks!

[hugger6933]

No matter whose rocker you get you have to do a little "creative recreations" to the rocker. Mine were tri- plus or key parts I don't remember witch and they are really good pieces I got the cab "kit" for the truck in the pics I have up in this thread. The rockers still needed to have some pie cuts made and a little hammering with a body hammer to make it do what i wanted it to do. You might be able to just stick it up there and weld it in but i don't roll that way being a body man type guy and having the time in building the wrecks that i do I want the fit as good as possible. that is why I made some cuts to get it to fit[and look] just a little better

[screaminchevypickup]

Metal finished and body worked smooth..

[BossHogg69]

Originally Posted by hugger6933

No matter whose rocker you get you have to do a little "creative recreations" to the rocker. Mine were tri- plus or key parts I don't remember witch and they are really good pieces I got the cab "kit" for the truck in the pics I have up in this thread. The rockers still needed to have some pie cuts made and a little hammering with a body hammer to make it do what i wanted it to do. You might be able to just stick it up there and weld it in but i don't roll that way being a body man type guy and having the time in building the wrecks that i do I want the fit as good as possible. that is why I made some cuts to get it to fit[and look] just a little better

x100 - I had to pie cut, hammer, cuss, pie cut, cuss, then hammer again, and drink quite a bit of Miller Lite to get mine to fit right.

That looks awesome screaminchevypickup - I should've let you do mine and just drank the beer and let you do all the hammering, cutting, and cussin'.

[re1]

here's mine

[hugger6933]

I was looking at my phone pics about 30 min ago and even have a shot of the pie cuts made. I will try later to get them up so I can share with yall but I am about to leave to go play golf in a few.
I cut mine sure but it wasn't any cussin I had that planned[the cussing not the pie cut] but I did drink quite a few cold drinks[my drink of choice is Diet Coke].
I do have better rocker pics like i said I'll try to put them up later. Jim

[Dustytrix]

Do post the pics Jim when you get a chance. I am ready to put drivers side in, by the way I traded the miller lite for diet coke 7 yrs ago. LOL