rocker panels?

[ilmoakw]

Greetings all! I'm new to the tercel forum here but have been prettty active over on the 89-94 toyota trucks area... OK i'm getting a steal of a deal on a 91 tercel with new rebuilt engine. The rocker's are bad ...really bad! Anyone suggest a place to get tome replacements?


**edit** It's a 92.

[Gizmo]

Where are you located in Canada?

[ice_d_mugg]

wow, replacing rockers isnt going to be easy or fun, and if they are rotted out, chances are so are the quarterpanel's inner sheeting, and on up in the a-pillar as well.

im going through that now with the drivers side of my paseo, it had a two foot hole in the drivers rocker, it took me forever to find a rocker panel cut for it.

finally i found smith's foreign auto in virginia that sold me a whole section of the car for 100 dollars shipped, their number is 434-352-5371, they are absolutely great people to work with, just request they send UPS.

they try to keep the paseos and tercels and stuff in stock, they have 4 paseos there this moment, dunno about the tercel stock though


and while you are at it, DONT FORGET TO RESTORE CORROSION PROTECTION!

buy a can of 3m's weld-thru primer, its a corrosion coating....spray it on the backsides and faces of everything you weld, because your yellowish zinc coating will burn off when you weld it, and itll just rot right back out.

[t_cel_t]

you do mean rocker panels and not rockers as in valve rockers, right?

[ilmoakw]

Originally Posted by Gizmo

Where are you located in Canada?

Im in Moncton New Brunswick.

[ilmoakw]

Originally Posted by t_cel_t

you do mean rocker panels and not rockers as in valve rockers, right?

Rocker panels. Sorry should have been specific.

[ilmoakw]

Originally Posted by ice_d_mugg

wow, replacing rockers isnt going to be easy or fun, and if they are rotted out, chances are so are the quarterpanel's inner sheeting, and on up in the a-pillar as well.

im going through that now with the drivers side of my paseo, it had a two foot hole in the drivers rocker, it took me forever to find a rocker panel cut for it.

finally i found smith's foreign auto in virginia that sold me a whole section of the car for 100 dollars shipped, their number is 434-352-5371, they are absolutely great people to work with, just request they send UPS.

they try to keep the paseos and tercels and stuff in stock, they have 4 paseos there this moment, dunno about the tercel stock though


and while you are at it, DONT FORGET TO RESTORE CORROSION PROTECTION!

buy a can of 3m's weld-thru primer, its a corrosion coating....spray it on the backsides and faces of everything you weld, because your yellowish zinc coating will burn off when you weld it, and itll just rot right back out.

Inner sheeting and A pillars are in really good shape oddly enough got a couple 6 inch rust through holes....

[z00y0rk28]

there's a DIY on torontopaseoclub for this i believe..