Remove Rocker Panels From a Chevy Truck
When a Chevy Motor lorry ages and is exposed to adverse pathway conditions for senescence or possibly decades, the rocker panels obtain a piece of abuse. Pungency can excite in between the panels, which forms rust over interval. Eventually the panels exigency to be replaced. This is a complicated manner involving cutting, welding and shaping episode metal, so it's not for the novice machine builder. Before you modify the panels, but, you must remove the ancient ones.
Instructions
1. Look the rocker panel needing replacement. Finish how all the more of the rocker panel you appetite to exchange; this depends on the condition of the original rocker. Hold the replacement panel over the rocker where you want to chop it, and mark the perimeter of the replacement panel using the permanent marker. Pull off the replacement panel and verify the location is correct.3. Put on the safety goggles, gloves and hearing protection.
Use the entire replacement piece, or just a small section. If you want to chop down the replacement piece, use the angle grinder with the cut-off wheel to chop it to size.2.
Attach the angle grinder with the cut-off wheel to the air compressor through the air line, and cut inside of the permanent marker lines on the stock rocker.
4. Hold the replacement rocker in the hole and verify fitment. If it doesn't fit, trim the hole to size using the angle grinder until there is approximately a 1/16-inch gap between the replacement panel and the stock rocker.
