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Rocker panel inspection
I have seen plenty of posts about all the great stuff you find packed between the inner & outer rocker panels. I ran across some advice from DD (in another forum) about cleaning this area every time you change your oil.
I didn't think much about this until yesterday. I was replacing a damaged rocker panel and to my shock the rust free car I thought I had has a nice hole/rusted out jack point. Now I have to get the Brad Mayeur longitudinal reinforcing kit $ 300+! A word of advice, check out your 914 for this damage and make cleaning this area is part of your regular maintenance program. It's on mine for sure now! Welder Tom |
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02-17-2002, 09:12 AM
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Even more important if you drive your car on the track. You will find an unbelievable amount of rubber marbles, sand/dirt, twigs and so forth collected up around the jack points and the front portion of the rear wheel wells. All of that crud acts like a sponge to hold moisture against the metal if you don't clear it out regularly.
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02-17-2002, 11:14 AM
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I cleaned out this area on 2 914s. Neither appeared to have ever been cleaned before.
The average collection of crud was about 10lbs per car or a 1/3 filled bucket:-). My jack posts were in good shape, but I nuked em' anyhow....that leaves more room for crud collection. 
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Can the rockers be adequately cleaned by removing the screws underneath and pulling panel away, or is it necessary to drill out the pop rivets and totally remove the panel to clean ( I can see lots of mud looking forward from rear wheel well).
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02-17-2002, 04:44 PM
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Your right, just loosen the bottom screws and clean. Tom |
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02-17-2002, 04:50 PM
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I suppose one can clean out the crud without removing the rocker pannel, but......
The whole area needs a close look. The jack pad support (the piramid shaped shaped thingy) creates a void. There is a drain(?) hole in it.....or it could be a fill hole.....never did figure that out. There is NO preservative of any kind in there.....nada. There is rust in there, guaranteed. I opened them up and found out. Decided "I don't use these suckers, nohow ...be off with you". The old carbide rotary bit & die grinder gig. It's an ugly job. This may be bit extreme for most folks, but one less thing to worry about. A guy could fill em' with a rust killer or sumthin' and then let it drain out.
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