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Old Oct 21, 2008 | 05:07 PM
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I noticed that my rocker panels are rusting badly. Most of it is just surface rust, but on the drivers side there is a little hole that I can stick my middle finger in(oh yeah **** Rust!!). I searched for some rockers for my truck and found these:https://www.dodgeparts.com/oe_parts_...b6935072820909
They are about $80 for factory Mopar parts, which sounds like a good deal for factory parts. But how hard is it to install new rockers. i know i need to weld these in, but what else is involved?
 

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Old Oct 21, 2008 | 09:49 PM
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uhh there's no rockers there purple, just a parts search.

I've seen some pretty cool chrome rockers on trucks before.
 
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Old Oct 21, 2008 | 09:55 PM
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how much you the rockers are you replacing 4,6,8in?
 
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Old Oct 21, 2008 | 10:17 PM
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the mopar part looks like the whole rocker
 
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Old Oct 21, 2008 | 10:50 PM
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there's going to be sum work involved, cut out the bad rocker and weld in new rocker, grid down weld spot then little bondo to smooth it out then primer and paint. ( but with base cloat clear cloat paint it hard match) i looked at your cardomain and didn't see rust.. if the rust isn't very bad or big i wouldn't replace the whole rocker. just fab up a section you self.... how big is the rust spot??? maybe a pic tomorrow in the light?
 
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Old Oct 21, 2008 | 11:24 PM
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purple thats why mine's in the shop ,i'm letting the body shop guy's hassel with it , it's probably worse than you think because they rust from the inside out and thats not a bad price for the rockers
 
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Old Oct 22, 2008 | 03:48 PM
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purple thats why mine's in the shop ,i'm letting the body shop guy's hassel with it , it's probably worse than you think because they rust from the inside out and thats not a bad price for the rockers
how much is that costing you? i would also like to get my truck re painted and get all of the dents removed
 
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Old Oct 22, 2008 | 03:55 PM
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Originally Posted by dodgeram07
there's going to be sum work involved, cut out the bad rocker and weld in new rocker, grid down weld spot then little bondo to smooth it out then primer and paint. ( but with base cloat clear cloat paint it hard match) i looked at your cardomain and didn't see rust.. if the rust isn't very bad or big i wouldn't replace the whole rocker. just fab up a section you self.... how big is the rust spot??? maybe a pic tomorrow in the light?
it is kind of hard to see it in my pics as there is no bad surface rust and there is some factory undercoat left. i will hav pics tonight
 
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Old Oct 23, 2008 | 04:40 PM
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hey did you see in lmc, they said"" slip on "" maybe easyer than we think
 
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