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ZUKIWORLD Discussion Forum => Suzuki 4x4 Forum => Topic started by: jirwin6985 on May 23, 2007, 07:10:29 PM
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hey thanks to everyone on here i managed to get the 2x4 steel for my rockers for cheap from fazios now i have a question...im welding the 2/4 to the rockers i already cut the rockers out and my question is should i box of the ends of the 2x4 to keep water from getting in there or leave them open?? its a 96 4 door tracker if that matters...im getting a freind to come over and help me weld them on sunday i now just need to figuare out if i should weld them closed or not.....thanks again everyone you guys rule!!
Joe
ps ill post picks once its all welded it up...ill get some befor and after....
thanks
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Personal preference, really. If you leave them open, you can blast the mud out of them with a hose and they will have a better chance to dry out on the inside. If you close the ends, makes ure you do a good job sealing them otherwise they can allow water in which can rust the tube out from the inside...
The ones on Silver are open.
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ok yea it seems like both things have some good points .....now if i leave them open should i try to paint inside or anything.... i just dont want to have to do this again sooner then i have too...
Joe
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I tapered and capped the ends of my tubes. I think that even if some water made its way inside it would take a number of years to rust through. Although I have seen tubes get water in them and then when the water freezes it turns square tube into a pretty good copy of a round tube.
Here are a couple of pictures of how I finished mine off.
Can't wait to see how yours turn out. Post up plenty of pictures!!
Mike
(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t101/Geotracker90/Rocker6.jpg)
(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t101/Geotracker90/Rocker10.jpg)
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that looks awsome...im just starting to put all the stuff ive been collecting over the past year on my tracker...got a 2 inch coil spacer lift...building a 3 inch bodylift...and have some wagon wheel from a bronco sitting waiting for some 31's..but i wanna get rid of the rust i literally just slammed the door and 4 inchs of rocker fell off....those dam,nn plastic things held all the water and rusted...its the only rust on the whole truck it was wierd...