xj14

What have some of you done with your rusted rockers besides replace them? One side has a hole middle ways and the other is just started rusting. Any kind of rock slider that covers them and works good or any other ideas? Thanks!

salad

http://www.jeepkings.ca/forums/showt...er-replacement

JeremyXJ

Rusty's makes some steel covers for the rocker panels. You should probably cover the rust with some sort of inhibitor before putting something over it, though.

salad

Covering up rust is a great way to completely rot out the body. Previous owner of my Jeep just welded new rockers over the old rusty ones.

Worst idea I've ever seen.

JPXJMOAB

X2 and they aren't meant to cover up rust those are meant for rocker panel armor.

Cane

the 2x6 way is by far the easiest and cheapest route, I'm going to tackle this job later this summer, hope it gives as good results as the ones posted above

mwxj

My old jeep had 2x6x3/16. I'd stick with 1/8" though if given the choice, easier to weld to the thin metal there and still plenty strong.

andrewmp6

http://spadanoenterprises.com/-xj--cherokee.html

JeremyXJ

He asked for a way to cover them and I provided an option. I never said it was a good idea.

xj14

It's a jeep... It's gonna rust out eventually anyway. Thanks for the options. May just end up welding new oem ones in sometime but I don't really have the extra time to tackle that.

Krakker

Mine look stock, but are bent 1/4" plate (yes, radius included) and fully welded into the body in place of the stock beer can material.
They've been filled with foam and coated with POR-15 on the bottom inner portion, and Monstalined on the rest.
NO rust gonna happen here, and strong as hell.
Looking like a stock rocker, it's like camouflaged body armor.

salad

Um. What kind of foam, please? And were the rocket backing plates replaced?

Krakker

Industrial spray. like expandable only a finer cell expansion.
unsure of the backing plates.
drilling in and filling the all the pockets with the foam and sealing everything with coating after it's dried a few days provides extra sound deadening and keeps out any moisture that "could" collect and rot metal.
This was a "must do" for my old J-10 short bed. Can't see how they thought a bunch of open pockets under the body and frame were a good idea for "any" vehicle.

JeremyXJ

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