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| | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 45 Member | | Member Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 45 | Got through rust on both front corners of my roof ('65 C20) and rain gutters. It's pretty far along. Softball-size area on the pass side, and baseball size on the driver's. Both have been Bondoed -up by P/O without treating the rust underneath... ugh!
Ever repaired rust in this area?
Does anyone make a roof panel or patch panels? | | | | | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 613 Member | | Member Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 613 | my 61 is like that.it seems the best way to fix it would be to cut it at the window frames and find another roof.maybe chop it some at the same time. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 45 Member | | Member Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 45 | It looks like it hasn't got into the windshield header or the door pillars yet. The rust has been creeping upwards from the front corners of the rain gutter into the roof skin.
It'll start creeping down into the pillars soon if I don't get a decent repair done.
It'd be cool if I could find a new roof skin repair panel but I haven't found any through the on-line parts suppliers.
A solid used one would work, too but I don't think a junk yard would even have a '65, much less let me cut the roof off one.
Anybody got a cab they're cannibalizing? | | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,068 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,068 | On my 63, I'm replacing the body because of extreme rust. I found a donor body that came from California right here in Iowa. The original Iowa truck rusted out from the bottom up due to the salt use in our winters. The California truck rusted from the top down due to the sun baking the paint. The donor body from CA. had the rust through in the roof where as the IA. truck didn't. So I cut the roof off of the IA truck and welded it on to the CA. truck. I just cross braced everything and cut the front at the seem on the inside A pillar. That seem won't be there when done because it will need to be welded up because the inner structure is inaccessable to weld. The rear just requires lots of measuring to get right and then I missed by a 1/4 inch on oneside. I just put a piece of metal in as a backer and welded it all together. I did this with the doors in place so I could get the gap right. For my first time, it turned out great. It's not finished yet, but I went that far with it to see if I could do it or if I needed to find another cab before the project got too far down the road. It requires a lot of patience but can be done,
Scott | | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 45 Member | | Member Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 45 | 48BT,
Sounds like you did a decent job of making one good cab out of two bad ones. Nice work!
I used to live in Illinois and it was the same story there; everything rotted out from the ground up due to winter road salt.
Out here by the ocean, it's a slower process but over 40 or so years, they'll rust from the top down.
I guess those rain gutters were a weak spot for all the old Chevys.
Just took a closer look at the truck, and I see that the rust has started in on the windshield header, near the passenger's side A pillar.
Still looks fixable, if I can locate some decent donor metal to replace the rot. | | |
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