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Super duty rocker panels and cab corners

hickslawns

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Cleaned up all available metal with a flap disc on grinder. Cut down the cab corner a bit. Did a test fit. Still need to cut more off cab corner to fit the top up and behind the factory cab metal. Hopefully this answers Chuck's questions on how they go together. May end up adding some metal on the backside and up front. Easy to see why these rust out so bad. Once welded/glued we will need to POR15 and undercoat the crap out of it.
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Looks good Phil! I've got my old Silverado and the Tahoe I'd love to patch the rockers and corners like this. The Silverado was going to be a learning tool with my dad on welding but it didn't happen. All his welding stuff I had to let my step mom sell because she was in a hard place financially and I didn't have extra cash to give her at the time.
 
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Looking good. Wednesday I drove my personal truck to work because my company truck was in the shop and this happened not sure I'm gonna do the work myself or take it to a shop. 7900$ was the estimate. Loader1 truck 0
 

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Looking good. Wednesday I drove my personal truck to work because my company truck was in the shop and this happened not sure I'm gonna do the work myself or take it to a shop. 7900$ was the estimate. Loader1 truck 0
How much is a used bed?
 

hickslawns

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Drivers side turned out a little better. Helps to start on the easy side and learn how to do it. Need to weld a patch panel into floor of drivers side.

We semi formed the patch panel already. Wanted to weld rockers and cab corners in before doing anymore bending/shaping of the patch piece.
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While playing with sheet metal tools we made some repairs to a set of backhoe engine covers too. They are $600-625 per side but no longer produced. So we put a band-aid on these. Not too terrible. It's a backhoe, not a show car. We just need to keep the plastic from cracking any worse. We will paint to match soon. We already painted some of the backhoe in heavy rust areas, so we have the paint. Not sure they prepared the plastic properly when these were painted at the factory. The orange you see is original plastic color. Also need to cut the hole for the piece which secures engine cover to the machine.


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bigten05

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Doesn't look like they were sanded at all before sprayed yellow. Alot of John deers new equipment is that way to because Hitachi builds them and then throws a cheap yellow paint job on them we have a track hoe that the counter weight has flaked off and looks like crap with the orange showing through