Let me see if I can clarify a bit... I just ran outside and grabbed a few quick photo's that are close ups of the replaced rocker panels, it's been almost two years since I did this, but it's holding up really well!
As a side note, I have dragged these rocker panels across several choice boulders in the rockies... and no dents, dings, or crumpling. Not that I really want to make a habit of it.
Up first is a pic of the rear passenger door:
(this will all be pics of the passenger side, as the concrete on the drivers side was wet)
Same spot, from underneath, facing towards the rear tire:
And another view of that fabricated rear support, with the camera sitting on th rear passenger tire:
This one shows how the inner surface is open up above the rail, and you can see the center support is an extension of the center body mount reinforcement sheet-metal:
This view is of the front support bracket, much like the center one, it is a welded on extension of the sheet-metal support bracket for the body mount bushing, and believe it or not, is open above the rail as well. No hidey-holes for water to collect, and no open metal. Everything is coated in a LIBERAL amount of Herculiner. <3
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naasau at 2012-04-30
While everything isn't as perfectly clean and pretty as I would like, it does work rather well, especially since this is my first attempt at body work, ever.