That color difference was there with the factory (I assume) fender, too. I'm not sure why. I plan to get a different bumper and repaint it at some point anyways. Nice thing is I am going to keep my old fender for paint matching and all that jazz. If this job got your seal of approve than I am a happy camper, lol. My welding (goofy) friend saw the rocker panels and went on and on about how easy it would be to fix and all that. He was talking about just cutting out the cancer and just tacking a piece to the top of the cut then bending\forming it to the body lines. He seemed pretty confident, so I dunno I might try it out just to get me through the winter or 2. The cuts\his welds would be below where I was going to cut it off and put replacements in, so the worst case scenario is I'd be faced with the same amount of work I am now. I was thinking of coming up with some idea (that I'm sure I'll get help on from IDJ and\or Jeff, lol) about putting a drain or at least access to the inner rockers in between the holes of the side skirt bracket. That way I can clean them out after every winter along with initial rust treatment. Here's a random pic from google and the bracket is rusted to **** (mine isn't) but you can see where the holes are...or should be...
Thoughts?
