It boils down to what you yourself want to do and if
you have the time to do it. I asked questions on here
and got negative answers. Getting in and doing what
seeems impossible is a way to learn by experience.
One thing about it is you will make some mistakes as
you go along but when you finish you will look and
realize you did it yourself and will be more proud of
your truck. You did the work and maybe it was hard
but you have the satisfaction of knowing you did it.
The learning experience is worth the effort. Unless
you have plenty of money to spend. I've got quite a
bit of rust in my '57 cab but I'm getting it cut out
and welding in new pieces and I'm not the greatest. I
must say it looks pretty darn good and the
satisfaction I have after being told it would be best
to get another cab and so forth. The kick panels are
the worst on mine and it turned out it wasn't as bad
as I thought it would be to fix. It's according how
much you want to do
--- Grant Galbraith <trks@javanet.com> wrote:
> That seem is a trouble spot. I have seen otherwise
> nice paint jobs ruined by
> re occurring rust there. I separated that seem to
> do roof transplant. I had
> a large sun roof I didn't want on my three window so
> I transplanted a 5
> window top. I would not do it again, too much work.
> You can only access that
> seem by removing all the inside metal. This means
> drilling out a bazzilion
> spot welds. A look at the factory assay manual is
> worth a thousand words.
>
> Grant
> 50 Chevy 3100
> 52 GMC 150
>
> Jim Cramer wrote:
>
> > I decided to have the cab on my GMC acid dipped
> because of the amount of
> > previous body work. It turned out to be not that
> bad however there was
> > quite a bit of rust inside the seam that separates
> the roof from the
> > rest of the cab (under the rear window). Even the
> dipping process failed
> > to get rid of all of it. Has anybody ever
> separated the roof for this
> > kind of repair? Just wondering what is involved.
> Now would be the time
> > to do it instead of rust coming through in a
> couple of years. Any other
> > suggestions?
> > Thank you.
> > --
> > Jim Cramer
> > Ephrata, Pa.
> > 52 GMC 1/2 ton
> > oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built
> between 1941 and 1959
>
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