I thought I would give parts geek.com patch panels a shot. I bought a cab corner for my replacement cab. It was 12.97 plus 11.00 for shipping. I ordered it Friday night and it arrived today. I'm impressed with it the lines are a match too the original. I set it over my cab and the lines and contours match. And it is close to the same thickness. I will definitely buy more parts from them.

 

Good information, thanks.

 

How's the thickness? Same as OEM? Or thin?

I just bought driver side floorpan, inner rocker and front lower rear corner from tabco. I already had a front cab corner from them and the quality was great so I spent the coin and bought the other parts from them

 

I've found that Tabco is by far the best alternative to oem metal. I just wish they made more parts for our trucks.

 

I just ordered a replacement gas tank from Parts Geek. Supposed to arrive tomorrow. It was a good $40 less than LMC or anywhere else I found.

** Sorry, I know this doesn't relate to the body panels, but, same vendor and they have great prices.

 

Ford guy. I checked the thickness with my sheet metal thickness gauge. The original cab is 18 gauge and the new cab corner is 18 gauge. I actually cut my old cab corner off lastnight and test fit the new cab corner. It actually fits nearly perfect.Just a little bit of tweaking on the door lip side. It even impressed my hard to impress dad. Eagle chief. I am amazed at the selection of products parts geek has for the dent side pickup truck. I'm impressed with the price. Do you mind if I ask what the shipping cost is on your tank? I'm wondering if they are making up for cheap prices with high shipping cost

 

Awesome, thanks for the update. I'll have to check out their website for future panels.
Anxiously waiting my arrival of patches from tabco!

 

I'll post some pics this weekend when I get it in place with cleeko clamps to show the fit. As people say on here it didn't happen without pics lol

 

Well my patch panels finally came! The corner pieces look good but have a question on the floor pan, I've had two guys tell me they'd send it back and go to DC... thoughts? I'm new too body work so just trying to soak in the knowledge.

 

I would send that floor pan back. That's not a very good looking piece.If I remember correctly I got mine for one of my other truck from Jeff's bronco graveyard. It was nice matched the oem close. Here's a couple pics of the parts geek cab corner being fitted. Still not done but fits great

 

That floor pan is garbage. The way the metal is just folded over instead of properly stamped. Those folds will trap water and rust out fairly quickly. I would not use those pans.

 

And it says Tabco on it! It doesn't look good, but if you're going to weld in your own floors, you ought to be able to fix that piece with less hassle (if not, then definitely less time) than dealing with returning, shipping, and all of that unhappy horse crap. Although I might contact them politely with pics, and see if they'd send me a little money back for the hassle.

 

Yeah I called them yesterday and he stated guys love the overlap cause it gives them play when welding and then into a long speech about how theirs is OEM thickness and all the Taiwan metal is thinner. Said tabco has been doing it that way since the 80s and never a complaint. Their press won't flatten it without cutting like fords process was originally but he "supposes" the Taiwan stuff could be pressed without cutting. He made a point I could cut the excess off and weld it up so it's solid. Wondering if I should just do that to save the hassle of it all and maybe try DC or partsgeek for the passenger side? Idk I just hate wasting time and money on returns cz I'm sure I'll be out at least one way on shipping and probably both then I still have to buy another panel and have it shipped to me

 

I didn't even notice the Tabco label. Normally I love Tabco. I will say that I'd rather modify the piece than risk getting a better fitting piece made from thinner metal. Just don't forget to address those fold over areas.