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New Rocker Panels for 4-Door?

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Offline SloMo228

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New Rocker Panels for 4-Door?
« on: March 29, 2011, 06:30:53 PM »
I just bought a '93 4-door 'Kick last weekend to build into a DD/light trail rig for camping.  It's my third Tracker/Sidekick but first 4-door - the extra room is great!  I paid $300 for it, and pretty much got my money's worth in rust.  The frame is almost completely rust-free, but the body has some rot.  The worst of it is in the rocker panels.  They had a plastic trim piece over them which presumably just trapped water and salt and dirt and made the rockers rot out far worse than the rest of the body.   I've been able to find rocker panels for 2-doors, but not really for 4-doors.  At least, not that I'm sure of.  I've found what are listed as rocker panels but show a generic picture and a $10 list price, which seems really off to me: http://www.andysautosport.com/suzuki/1988_1998_sidekick/exterior/rocker_panels/sherman/.

My question is this: is there a good source of replacement rocker panels for the 4-doors?  If not, I'll probably just weld in some tubing or angle and call it a day.

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Re: New Rocker Panels for 4-Door?
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2011, 11:30:12 AM »
I would cut them out and switch to square stock, BRD HNTR has a good write-up on performing the body surgery.

http://www.zukiworld.com/forum/build-diaries-how-to-diy/tracker-2x4-rockers-frnt-bmper-4-dr-sprngs-lwered-frnt-diff-$30-steel-frnt-diff/
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Re: New Rocker Panels for 4-Door?
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2011, 07:40:42 PM »
ya thats an awesome write up will be doing that rocker swap soon
new rig aka "the mule" 2002 tracker
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