This is more of a “Let me show you” video on removing rust and installing a patch panel on my 1999 Chevy S-10 cab corner using epoxy instead of welding. Shot…
This is more of a “Let me show you” video on removing rust and installing a patch panel on my 1999 Chevy S-10 cab corner using epoxy instead of welding. Shot…
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great video – thanks for making it
i bet some preventive in side behind the new panel before it’s installed might go a long way.
great video! its going to help me out with my truck, what part of maine are you from? im in sanford,
Yes.
Will the epoxy work on a Rocker Panel?
Its in the show notes.
As stated in the show notes: “Napa/VersaChem Steel Weld Epoxy System #765-2410”
2 thumbs up, great job you made it look very simple. like someone else said what kind of epoxy did you use??
They are identical body styles actually. LMC truck (search for it) has them if all else fails locally.
Good job.
Meadow Green Metallica #566F. Same color as my truck.
My dad ended up doing that to his 2000 Chevy S-10…looked very nice. Silver would have looked good on this truck.
paint the bottom and two tone the truck
What kind of epoxy is used and where can it be purchased?
The patch panel is great. The paint should be redone but mechanically very sound.
Turbo how is the cab corner holding up? Great Video. Im about to do my Sonoma cab corner and im going to use epoxy as well.
Im from western New York. I feel your pain!
Really interesting vid! I welded a cabcorner and rocker into a 91 1500, and now after seeing this i wish i would have epoxied it
love this vid! Very helpful thank you for postin this. Time to tackle my 88 silverado cab corners!
Ya gotta be kiddin me, one of the worst winter states doesn’t allow holes in a car body? My Ohio S-10 is ate up bad enuff. I wish people would learn to wash off the salt INSIDE the wheelwells and UNDER the vehicles instead of just the exterior. I had a Nissan 4X4 in 3 Colorado winters and never one spot of rust becuz I washed it UNDERNEATH along with the exterior. Man, I sure miss Arizona.
Indeed…the spray the roads with liquid salt in the winter, it doesn’t take much.
Wow your 99′ cab corner is worse than my 75′. Gotta love California weather!
epoxy is the best way to go no warping the metal
i like your video, its what the real home mechanics would use and do
Not everyone has a nicely outfitted shop….
The whole point is to show you don’t need to weld non-structural parts.
you should have cleaned and spot weld it not glue it oh well.
Might not be on the website as it’s not quite a part, it was in stock at the store.
I looked for the epoxy on napa’s website they don’t carry it. Where did u get it?
Yes it is…still color mismatched and everything.
Is the corner still on since u did it in 08?
great video, I like how you used the epoxy and I am thinking about doing the same on my truck but we can’t tell anyone because I’m a welder
I have to do the same thing on both sides of my 91 Sierra
It’s all in the notes to the video.
Had another question, ordered my corners this weekend so waiting for them to come in. One where did you get the epoxy from and whats it called? Also noticed you saved about an inch of metal at the bottom of the corner, mine are pretty weak and rusty there would I be ok to cut it out too. Love your video was glad to see this could be done without welding since I do not own a welder.
Yup…everything applies. Just use the right cab corner.
I am guessing repairing a cab corner on a 1995 silverado extended cab would be very similar.
Its not a little problem. Just because there is a little hole doesn’t mean there isn’t very thin metal around the hole. Most of the corner is shot, or will be, so it’s best to remove all the affected metal and replace it with a thicker gauge steel.
Honestly, cheap would have been filling the hole with Bond-o and painting it, but the repair would last at best 2 years, if that, before it has to be repeated. As for paint, you need to hide the paint lines in a body line regardless
Just wanted to say holly cow, you took out a lot of metal for such a little problem. I would of took an inch around that rust hole out not all of that. Dang man, your a gorilla.
Paintucation has some great videos I suggest watching them. Kevin Tetz makes them.
That repair would of took half the time if you would of only took a 1/4 of the metal out you did. Less paint too. Damn, i’m just thinking to myself you must have money to spend. Give me some 🙂