When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.
Not a lot of options for removing rust from drip rails besides making small patch panels. My roof was so bad I just decided to cut the whole roof off and replace from donor cab.. way easier. was done in a weekend except for finish body work and primer.
Roof skin was completely detached.
This gives you an idea of how bad it actually was. This was filled with Bondo....Poorly...
That sure looked a lot easier than sectioning from a donor. Too bad my donor roof was too bad to use the whole thing. I even had to patch part of the patch, but beats pounding one out from a flat sheet.
I keep bugging Pat Ford (Dennis Carpenter Ford Resto Parts) about when DC is going to offer a replacement roof panel for the 56 F100. At the SuperNats this year Pat said that Dennis was in the final stages of production of a complete 56 steel cab. Implication was that roof sections would be available at that time. Lots of good 56 cabs bite the dust because of rusted out roofs!
Nice work on the graft!
I even looked into having dies made to reproduce the roof with drip rails already attached , and the die set up was over 40k alone. That's a lot of roofs to even start making money so I had to let that go. I just got lucky with a local shop that had a cab that was totally gone in the bottom half. 40 bucks and I had a new roof.
This Hennessey Takes the Expedition Tremor's Off-Roading Capability to the Next Level
Slideshow: The VelociRaptor Expedition gains a lift, upgraded suspension, Brembo brakes, and trail-ready equipment while retaining the stock 440-horsepower EcoBoost V6.
