Laine D
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Pulled the fender flares off and found this. Pretty pissed. Wire wheeled it to get a better view. I’ll just cut it out and use the arch from the old bed. Could be worse but for a Cali boy I’m annoyed
Pulled the fender flares off and found this. Pretty pissed. Wire wheeled it to get a better view. I’ll just cut it out and use the arch from the old bed. Could be worse but for a Cali boy I’m annoyed
I luckily have my old bed that has wonderful wheel arches so I think I’ll be able to cut those out and use themFord welded a piece of curved sheet metal to the inner bed fender, and it is spot welded to the curved wheel opening. probably for strength. problem is water, dirt, salt etc... get between the 2 pieces of metal and cannot get washed out, and eventually rusts out the wheel opening arch.
There are patch panels to replace this section. You need to cut out the area and weld in the new piece.
Iam having a small area on my right side starting to rust through.
My truck started out it`s life in Calif. but in Ukiah which is near the ocean as I remember.
Now here in Nv., N-Dot uses brine they spray on the roads, and Caltrans also in Ca. in the mountain areas where it snow`s. So you won`t totally get away from the salt if you say want to go over I-80 to Reno or up Hwy 50 to Tahoe and play in the Snow.
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I took a good look around and I’m pretty sure this is the only spot. I know you have seen, maybe slightly worse rust. LolAs a rust belt resident I'll..... Keep my mouth shut
At least it doesn't look like it's spread too bad. I just hope you don't find more as you dig into it.
I really took for granted how much of a central California truck mine was, the most snow it saw was 1 snow storm lolYea, our 83 was in worse shape than that in 1990…..
I took a good look around and I’m pretty sure this is the only spot. I know you have seen, maybe slightly worse rust. Lol
I honestly do not know why I didn’t do that. And I just now found the fork extensions that were right behind the frameYou know, some people would consider that forklift as cheating. Me, on the other hand, I consider it to be smart. During the two cab swaps that I did, we used a forklift too. I say we because I did it at work and it was inside. We didn't use a strap like you did. We slid the forks together and then slid a 2x12 through the windows (they were all the way down). It worked pretty well that way.