Can anyone point me in the direction of a thread or send me some pics of how the rocker panels go together? My rockers have been patched with so many pieces of angle and rivets that it's not easy to see how they go together. Is there a diagram, or cut-away view in existence?
The outer skin is rusted through, and the inner flange where it meets the floor is more or less gone so I imagine the only route is to replace the whole thing. But I just want to get a better idea of how they go together before I start taking them apart.
I have no picture , but they are built like a tube....which also functions as a drain for the verts...drips out in front behind front wheels from the convert gutter that drains into them
If you have access to it, "Fabulous Firebird" a hardcover, coffee table book by Michael Lamm on the development of the Firebird (it followed his earlier "Great Camaro" book), has cutaway drawings of both the coupe and convertible bodies, showing the rockers (the convertibles have two vertical reinforcements in their rockers to add rigidity).
Now that you mention it, I bet that is a convertible rocker. They have more layers and are much heavier than a coupe to provide the stiffness. Not sure what a coupe rocker looks like.
Bob , I think the mental picture I also have of the coupe rocker is the same but without the middle "brace", just a tube vs this is a tube w a brace down the middle...
The parts place I called said there is an OE panel, an inner panel or, if the rust wasnt that bad I would just need an outer skin.
So judging by Bobs picture above and what I saw on my car, that picture just shows the "outer" panel right?
I doctored this pic of my car (disregard the shoddy patch panels, those are coming out). The dark gray shows what I think that picture above represents,the lighter gray represents the "inner panel" and the red line the seam. Am I right?
