Thanks to NH and Vermont road salt, (and my laziness to do this sooner) the rockers are rusted out. Inners are bad which really compounds the problem.
the running boards were falling off


driver side


passenger side


left front


left rear


right front


right rear


left front opened up


left rear opened up


right front opened up


right rear opened up


left front underside


left rear underside


right front underside


right rear underside
both rear corner sections for the C post are rotted in the bottom. Of course those aren't available and SD ones don't look like they would match up very good. I would like to just cut the bottom out and weld in a new section if I can find something close to work into it.
Not sure about the inner rockers. Doesn't look like those are made for excursions. I did find what is claimed to be ones for the SD crew cab which would probable get me most of the way to the rear. I need to sand blast to see where decent metal begins to work from. Could do the flat 16 gauge sheet metal but it wouldn't have the holes for the running boards. I could cut them in but that is more time and need to get good measurements for reference, which there isn't much left of the original to measure. I probably should have just done the covers over the original so I could then get it inspected. Kind of into it now though.

 

Man that looks ugly. I'm not sure if I'd rebuild it or just replace it at that point.

 

Subscribed! Good luck!!

 

I need to sandblast to see where the crap ends and the decent metal starts. Going to be messy

 

Those running boards likely caused a lot of the problem because they hide so much and the drain holes get plugged up with shlt...

 

My eyes! You hurt my eyes!

 

Its all the nice big holes that are put into the factory inner rockers and way too small drain holes

 

I should have put a visual warning up in the thread title like "Warning!!! Extremely distressing rust picture!! Not recommended for people that live in rust free areas"

 

Gruesome images for sure, but a very big cudos from me for diving in and tackling the project, hopefully the life saving efforts go well and the patient enjoys a full recovery! I'm following along and cheering for you!

 

 

I'm still going down too. Need to get it done so I can move on to other projects

 

No, it's all original rust. If it was previously repaired they did an excellent job

 

Hopefully get the sandblasting. And get the crap metal cut out

 

More fun. Did sandblasting and cutting on the passenger side


Passenger front


Passenger side rear


Passenger inner rear


Passenger side inner front
Sucks that the c post corner is rotted out

 

I'm surprise the bottom of your doors still look good..