Rocker and floor question

[Rakkasan]

First off. Great Forum

This is my first post and I’m hoping to get some opinions or knowledge. I picked up a ‘79 K10 about a month ago with the intentions of doing a frame off. I know it’s a big project but I think of it as just that a project. This is my first square body in 20yrs having owned three before in my younger years.

I’ve got it stripped down to just the bare cab on the frame and about to start on the rocker panels and floor pans.

Question is my outer rocker is good on the outside but it’s rusted threw where the weather stripping and inner rocker meet. Would you cut the whole outer rocker or just split the sill and replace the rusted parts.

Just got new inner and outer rockers and floor pan delivered today just want to know the best course of action to take.

Thanks

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[Honky Kong jr]

Welcome if it were me and the factory outer rockers are not compromised I’d be patching what’s bad and leaving the better OEM steel where it’s at.

 

[Rakkasan]

Awesome. That’s what I was thinking. I’d like to keep as much original steel as possible and just cut away the rot but every thing I see when I search the topic people are doing complete replacements.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

Awesome. That’s what I was thinking. I’d like to keep as much original steel as possible and just cut away the rot but every thing I see when I search the topic people are doing complete replacements.

THat's because it's alot easier to just replace it all. And also, it's probably alot more rotten than it looks.