I knew I should have pulled the rockers 3 yrs ago when I bought the car.

I peeked underneath but never noticed this (of course it looked fine before I started prying at it).

There's an article on the site about replacing these but I don't think it says how you are supposed to cut the old one off?? Access looks difficult above the jack post, with the body in the way...

air chisel...or with a hammer

welding access looks difficult too, aaaaaron.

QUOTE (jkeyzer @ Oct 3 2005, 08:57 PM)

welding access looks difficult too, aaaaaron.

not that bad. it WAS spot welded on. i guess plug weld it... drill some holes on the edges of the piece. and plug weld em....

have fun Jeff
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At least you don't have to fix my avatar.

Looks pretty minor.
Go for it!

If you need help, host a BBQ...


KT

That doesn't look too bad at all. Get in there with a cut off wheel and grinder and get all the rust out. Weld in some new sheet metal and it will be as good as new. I just did that over the winter. Not as bad as I thought it was going to be.


My rust thread

Good luck

it's not that bad... you can do it! mine on the pass. side is that bad or worse... I cut the whole jack post out to make sure the rust didn't get into the long...

BTDT - not bad at all.

After 1st cut to remove rusted area.

don't cut the whole thing off. Just patch it.

uh maybe I'm stating the obvious here, but when you cut the nasty part out, before you weld in the patch, shouldn't you be soaking the inside area with some rust neutralizer or something...

Yeah, for that reason I'd like to cut the jack plate off if possible, so I can put some POR-15 and/or weld-thru primer behind it.

I don't like to cut off more than necessary... so cutting off the worst and patching sounds ok, but... I wouldn't just patch over it until I knew the rust underneath was dead.

Do you want to use the stock jack point? There seems to be a lot of controversy over that.

I cut mine all the way off so I could expose, cut, scrape, and wire brush all the rust off. It went higher and deeper than I expected (as always). Then I treated with Ospho and painted with Hammerite. Then welded in some good sheet metal and painted again with Hammerite. No more wondering - I know it's solid.

Bringing an old post back - can you remove the whole jack post PLATE with the rear quarter panel in place? There are two issues I can see - #1 are there any spot welds above where the quarter panel hangs down, and #2 if you can drill out all the spot welds can the plate actually be maneuvered around the jack post to remove it? I assume people have done this?

QUOTE (jkeyzer @ Oct 19 2005, 12:03 AM)

Bringing an old post back - can you remove the whole jack post PLATE with the rear quarter panel in place? There are two issues I can see - #1 are there any spot welds above where the quarter panel hangs down, and #2 if you can drill out all the spot welds can the plate actually be maneuvered around the jack post to remove it? I assume people have done this?

I remember this being discusses in detail a year or more ago. I have a vague recollection of someone saying there are no welds at the top. Search will be your frined on this one. There is good info and pics out there.

Thanks Gint, I will check it out, preliminary search did not find the info but I will check again.

This is the best I could do to remove with the fender still intact.
There would have been no reason for the factory NOT to spot
weld the top.

OMG you guys are such pussies... deal with this... and then call me. WOOOSE