Pep boys chrome trim and a Maaco paint job. I would still love to own it. Just go whole hog and do a good quality paint job on your forever truck. You already have your clone of this truck. Would be cool to see you restore it to factory spec with that black paint. This truck started it all for you so it deserves the best. No harm in undoing any previous owners customization.
Chrome wheel trim is what began the rust on my 97. It was on there from 2006-2008. Vibration wore thru the paint in certain spots and rust started from all the salt on our roads up here in BC.
Bummer bout the update on your 1st truck, but it's not too bad , at least you caught it. Good catch especially for up the hill n salted roads . On my 2nd 4th Gen missed my 1st one was rear-end & slammed into retaining concrete wall hwy 99. 5 month into owning it. Ranch Hand bumpers & B&W adjustable hitch took the g force out n saved me life.I was going 3 mph stopped in fast lane SUV 80+. . You living the dream brother. I'll be up the hill soon chuggin along, hopefully get hands back on a G56. Cheers 🍻
That’s cool. I didn’t know those chrome strips were factory I’ve never seen any around a here in Ohio but they prolly all rotted out 15 years ago and that’s why😛.
My 2nd gen also has the factory chrome rockers. After seeing this, I don't want to know what's under them. Fortunately, they're perfect and in the deep south we don't usually have rust issues. But who knows.
Things like that are the worst fender flares anything that will hold water I guess it don’t matter where you live I had them small fender trim on a s10 back in the 90 s and wasn’t 5 years old and had already started rusting I live in Va they use salt in the winter so that don’t help lol
That’s crazy! I don’t get it. My third gen red sport had these chrome panels all along the side like yours and when I removed them the paint was mint. I used heat and fishing line and then an eraser wheel. I’m also in Edmonton Alberta Canada. Rust is life here lol. I must’ve got lucky.
I don't remember seeing the wide chrome lowers on any trucks around this area. I think I remember seeing them on an aftermarket site, or catalog (remember those? LOL) It also doesn't look like something an OEM would do, for obvious reasons. So I wonder if someone bought and installed them after buying the truck?? Dodge would have used vinyl, like the cars? Just a thought... Peace --gary
Oh ya those Mexican chrome rocker panel stick on things are the worst!!! I tell people any time I see them on a truck that it’s guaranteed to rust and rot out the doors. Imagine what those things would do a truck east of the Mississippi in the salt belt! Trapping the salt spray and moisture behind there up against the door! I’d replace the doors, they are done for. I wouldn’t try to fix rust, replacement parts! Who Evers idea is was to come up with stick on chrome rocker panel accents was a n idiot. Stupid idea. You see soooo many trucks with them to. They were real popular in the late 90’s and 2000’s. People used them to hide a little dents or defects. When all they were doing is installing a cancer causing product. Those doors are done. You got a couple options. New doors. If you don’t want to put new doors on you can have bed liner sprayed on the lower half from the body line on the rocker panels down. Take it down to bare metal with a wire wheel and get all that crud and rust out of there and bedliner will seal it up good and right and it’ll never rust again. Spray on bedliner is bullet proof. Have it wrapped up into the door bottoms and door sills. Bedliner will cover all that and seal it up good and tight and you’d ever never know. Rock chip resistant. When you put big over sized mud tires on these trucks and wider wheels that stick out past the body lines and fenders the rocker panels, and door bottoms get literally sand blasted and eaten away by rock chips, road gravel, and sand spray from the tires. Any amount of dirt/ gravel roads and a normal base/clear paint job is toast. The spray on bedliner stuff they have these days is UV resistant and dosent fade or turn chalky, a lot of it can even be colored . It gets put on a decent 1/4” thick so it can easily hide and small defects in the surface. Prep is simple, destroy the the surface with 40 grit and a wire wheel. Rough it up so it’s for some mechanical adhesion. Thats what I would do. I’d have the rocker panels and door bottoms sprayed with bedliner. That’s of you don’t want to put new doors on. What kind of resto you going for on this thing? Full out resto or you want to use actually the thing and keep it, have it functional and useable, bullet proof/ nuke proof truck.
Don't they make a spray on Chrome that wouldn't trap rust because it's a metallic paint I was really sure Krylon or some other company made a spray on Chrome that got just as shiny as those strips I think I remember seeing that product
Pep boys chrome trim and a Maaco paint job. I would still love to own it. Just go whole hog and do a good quality paint job on your forever truck. You already have your clone of this truck. Would be cool to see you restore it to factory spec with that black paint. This truck started it all for you so it deserves the best. No harm in undoing any previous owners customization.
Chrome wheel trim is what began the rust on my 97. It was on there from 2006-2008. Vibration wore thru the paint in certain spots and rust started from all the salt on our roads up here in BC.
I just bought my first 12 valve. It needs a little tlc, but I’m so excited to work on it.
Bummer bout the update on your 1st truck, but it's not too bad , at least you caught it. Good catch especially for up the hill n salted roads . On my 2nd 4th Gen missed my 1st one was rear-end & slammed into retaining concrete wall hwy 99. 5 month into owning it. Ranch Hand bumpers & B&W adjustable hitch took the g force out n saved me life.I was going 3 mph stopped in fast lane SUV 80+. . You living the dream brother. I'll be up the hill soon chuggin along, hopefully get hands back on a G56. Cheers 🍻
Full restore! So cool to have your first one back
That’s cool. I didn’t know those chrome strips were factory I’ve never seen any around a here in Ohio but they prolly all rotted out 15 years ago and that’s why😛.
This trucks gonna look sweet once your done 😊. I hate having rust on the truck.
Bolt on fender flares will do the same thing. Your time up in Wyoming may have accelerated the rust getting started with the ice melt used up there.
I would fix the rust prime and paint and use spray rock guard on the bottom . Or tin table bed liner .
My 2nd gen also has the factory chrome rockers. After seeing this, I don't want to know what's under them. Fortunately, they're perfect and in the deep south we don't usually have rust issues. But who knows.
Try bug and tar remover should dissolve the glue under those strips.
I’m alway leary of those chrome trim strips on trucks. There either hiding rust or creating it.
Things like that are the worst fender flares anything that will hold water I guess it don’t matter where you live I had them small fender trim on a s10 back in the 90 s and wasn’t 5 years old and had already started rusting I live in Va they use salt in the winter so that don’t help lol
Bummer on those chrome strips. I’ve always liked those too because you don’t see too many second gens with them on
That is rough. A bit of heat from the heat gun helps loosen the tape/adhesives. Hope it's not too bad.
He said, “thinset”- I’m cracking up. You’ll get it fixed.
That’s crazy! I don’t get it. My third gen red sport had these chrome panels all along the side like yours and when I removed them the paint was mint. I used heat and fishing line and then an eraser wheel. I’m also in Edmonton Alberta Canada. Rust is life here lol. I must’ve got lucky.
Muscle car is next project……… 2nd gen in the background 👀
Haul it to the junk yard. It should’ve been there 15 years ago.
@@mowerjeff8990 ok yeah perfectly running driving truck. Dork.
@@VBELTandSON hope Harris don’t get in there. She’ll have the scrappers take and scrap anything that isn’t electric.
I don't remember seeing the wide chrome lowers on any trucks around this area. I think I remember seeing them on an aftermarket site, or catalog (remember those? LOL) It also doesn't look like something an OEM would do, for obvious reasons. So I wonder if someone bought and installed them after buying the truck?? Dodge would have used vinyl, like the cars? Just a thought... Peace --gary
@@gtr1952 they are factory I know of a couple other trucks that have them
Leroy’s has them.
Oh ya those Mexican chrome rocker panel stick on things are the worst!!! I tell people any time I see them on a truck that it’s guaranteed to rust and rot out the doors. Imagine what those things would do a truck east of the Mississippi in the salt belt! Trapping the salt spray and moisture behind there up against the door! I’d replace the doors, they are done for. I wouldn’t try to fix rust, replacement parts! Who Evers idea is was to come up with stick on chrome rocker panel accents was a n idiot. Stupid idea. You see soooo many trucks with them to. They were real popular in the late 90’s and 2000’s. People used them to hide a little dents or defects. When all they were doing is installing a cancer causing product. Those doors are done. You got a couple options. New doors. If you don’t want to put new doors on you can have bed liner sprayed on the lower half from the body line on the rocker panels down. Take it down to bare metal with a wire wheel and get all that crud and rust out of there and bedliner will seal it up good and right and it’ll never rust again. Spray on bedliner is bullet proof. Have it wrapped up into the door bottoms and door sills. Bedliner will cover all that and seal it up good and tight and you’d ever never know. Rock chip resistant. When you put big over sized mud tires on these trucks and wider wheels that stick out past the body lines and fenders the rocker panels, and door bottoms get literally sand blasted and eaten away by rock chips, road gravel, and sand spray from the tires. Any amount of dirt/ gravel roads and a normal base/clear paint job is toast. The spray on bedliner stuff they have these days is UV resistant and dosent fade or turn chalky, a lot of it can even be colored . It gets put on a decent 1/4” thick so it can easily hide and small defects in the surface. Prep is simple, destroy the the surface with 40 grit and a wire wheel. Rough it up so it’s for some mechanical adhesion. Thats what I would do. I’d have the rocker panels and door bottoms sprayed with bedliner. That’s of you don’t want to put new doors on. What kind of resto you going for on this thing? Full out resto or you want to use actually the thing and keep it, have it functional and useable, bullet proof/ nuke proof truck.
A heat gun would have been a good thing lol
Like a hundred degrees out she’s warm enough I don’t want to be around more heat lol
What size are them tires
Don't they make a spray on Chrome that wouldn't trap rust because it's a metallic paint I was really sure Krylon or some other company made a spray on Chrome that got just as shiny as those strips I think I remember seeing that product
Just don’t put the space age metal to it 😂😂 I hate that stuff.
Most put them on because their truck is rusted lol
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People put cheap shit on there trucks don't think of the long term