Rocker trouble
 

I bought some new outer rockers for my Burb. When I got the old rocker cut out of the way and held the new rocker into place I realized that the rear of the rocker is about an inch wider that the rocker that came out. I ordered the parts from Auto Metal Direct. Is there a difference in the truck and the suburban rocker? Has anyone else had this problem, and if so how did you over come the issue?

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Back when I did this stuff on my Suburban, no one was making Suburban replacement rockers. I used PU and Blazer parts, and cut them to fit.

Even today, if I were to do it again and be able to order parts like this for the Suburban. I would be fully prepared to be making pie cuts, and trimming metal to make things work.

Most of the time I read about people here on the board, always having to cut, bend, and fit new sheet metal parts.

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Yes the truck and burb passenger side rockers are different,
As far as I know they do not make a passenger side rocker for a burb, you would need to keep part of the old burb rocker and cut a truck rocker and weld the two together
Here is what I did.

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I thought the fronts were the same on k5, burbs and trucks and the third door was the different one (which is made now)

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Brothers lists a 3rd door rocker for 55 bucks.

Paul

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Thanks for the help everyone. I have done some more research and it seems that everyone that sells a suburban specific passenger side front door rocker is actually a truck rocker. I will have to back up and punt. I have already cut the rocker out of the truck so I may have to piece some stuff back together.

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Subscribing since I'll be doing this soon...

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I just got the inner rocker, lower a pillar and kick panel fitted in my 69 burb, working on this next. I'll try to get some pictures of how I fab it up.

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Subscribing!

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I'll update as soon as I can, been buried at work and haven't had a chance to slice and dice yet!!

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The passenger door has a bump out at the rear. I'll try to grab a pic. You can use a truck rocker but you'll need to do a little surgery.