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Rocker Box?
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Re: Rocker Box?
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I had no torsion boxes to speak of, sooo every thing was rusty and had tobe replaced. Post up pics of the area in question, but most times it hides behind it J..
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Re: Rocker Box?
You must be meaning the torsion boxes, their a different animal the rocker boxes.
Rockers consist of an inner & outer rocker panels and the torsion box houses those as well as the torsion rod. Not so bad to replace any more, they make repro parts for em now. ![]() |
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Re: Rocker Box?
I was speakin torsion box, just wrong it the said way
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Re: Rocker Box?
Thanks,
Im sure I will have more questions, as Im new to this blazer thing, BUT THAT HELPS. I am planning on replaceing those piececs, the PO filled the inside area with foam insulation, so I cant tell whats going on thru the hole.Right now im adding power steering but that will be on the to do list. The rest of the underside is solid so hopfully it wont be a lot more rust in there, but being in the north east its not likely. Thanks a lot. Reuben |
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Re: Rocker Box?
Rueben, removing them is a pain. They have welds in places that are difficult to get at and it will involve a lot of cutting, drilling, chiseling and cussing. Putting the new ones on are a piece of cake. You can do it but I don't want you to think it's gonna be easy to remove, you'll have to work for it...
Good luck, Rg
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Re: Rocker Box?
Some friendly advise.
Take a very good look at your torsion box issues prior to digging in. The reason for this is that "if" this is a blazer you want to continue driving for awhile, you may want to wait. It's likely to be the 'tip of the ice-berg' kinda thing and your blazer could end up being under the knife for a long time. Basically a fair warning. Been there, done that and see it all the time throughout the board. ![]() |
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Re: Rocker Box?
Yea, she will be off the road for the winter so that would be the time to do it. I see they have the parts at LMC. Is that the recomended place to order this kind of stuff?
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Re: Rocker Box?
VTBlazer is dead on..
you may open the big-ol-can-o-worms as I have learned here and now from experience, rust starts from the inside. So if you have holes all the way through its going to be much worse inside there. maybe just take off the outer rocker and take a peak behind there just to start.(this will ruin the paint at the cuts) I have only taken off NON-factory outers and not factory and they were very simple to get off Factory might be harder to get off clean.
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