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I'd re-skin and do the pillars -- parts are readily available, you can do this yourself, and the aftermarket sheet metal should run around $300 or thereabouts.... better stuff (and cheaper) can be cut from vehicles in the junk yard............pull out the Blue Box (It's Milla Time) and watch the heat.............
$300 for the roof sheet?! I’m seeing prices around $1400 for Ford roof panels. Am I looking for the wrong thing?
In short...some of it yes but most of what I see no... another option is to have a Sheetmetal shop bend out the shape for you (with a roller machine) and then you can cut the old out and weld in the new.
I cannot find aftermarket roof skin panels available anywhere. Ford seems to sell them still, but they're several thousand dollars. If that's the case, I definitely see how it would require custom work or donor truck metal. Ugh.
This is my favorite search engines for used parts when I have no other choice....
Unless it is Pick a part, no, they cut it off for you...but that is why they give the contact information, so you can tell em exactly what you need, they can then discuss with you where they will be cutting the top to make sure you get what you need. Salvage yards typically don't pre-cut a vehicle up for many reasons including the one I just mentioned..... it's typically, cut up to order.
if that was all that needed fixing, it's a lot of work and it wont stop it. But the truck probably needs both quarter panels, cab and fenders. And usually, the body mounts are at least as bad as the worst surface - they NEVER get washed.
find a rust free body put your good parts on that, and 20 years from now, it will still be rolling. That's why rusty cars are cheap, the only buyers are crushers or dreamers.
My 97 diesel was wrecked and cheap fixed before. Rusty bed, some parts off rough junk trucks and all those parts stick out like a sore thumb. I recently found a really nice bed for $250 and sold my "junk" bed for 375, to a dreamer.
Rust never sleeps
If I was 20 years younger, I'd find a truck, cut the roof and chop the top about 6 or 8"
He’s my opinion. Remove the windshield. Wire brush all of the flaky areas and evaluate. Pull the headliners down. If all you find are pin holes, spot weld them. Then put POR 15 on the rest of the area, outside and inside. You then smooth the bad spots with a body filler like Craze or JB Weld, I would use JB Weld.
I know this isn’t ideal, but you’re not restoring in or building a show truck. After you remove the windshield and start cleaning those area up, if you find the cab is too far gone, then find a junkyard replacement cab. It’s easier to swap the cab than to cut sheetmetal of and then graft it back on to yours. You may even get lucky and find a red cab.
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