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Here we go with another project! It's not going to be as straight forward as I had thought, which I should be getting used to by now!

First I had to remove the patch that had been put on the front fender as it was covering the front of the rocker. Some quality workmanship here! LOL











Then start drilling out spot welds and pulling things apart. I haven't fully formulated my plan for the inners, they may happen in a couple of sections.

My replacement rocker panels came in a parts car I bought for the windshield a couple of years ago. That parts car is a gift that keeps on giving!

One step forward, two steps back. Is it progress when you're putting something together than you shouldn't have taken apart?

I drilled out the spot welds and removed this section of my rockers, but in hindsight this is not the best approach. I thought the best way would be to fully replace the inner and outer rockers, but after finding the top half of the inners and outers are fine, and hearing from Ross, I'm just replacing some of the inner and outer rockers.

Because this was already apart I'll put a new piece of metal here.





Sill/top of the rocker back where it used to be, and where it should have stayed.





Now the plan is to do a long butt weld for the outer where the red arrow is. Cut off the inners where the blue line is and then lap and plug weld a new inner which will just be a flat piece with a little step at the bottom where the outer attaches.





Because I do not have access from the outside at the front and rear floor pan brace I'm thinking I should cut them off, do my inner rocker repair, and then weld them back on. If anyone has any thoughts about this let me know. Cutting tomorrow!