Took all the carpet out this weekend. Nasty I might add. This is what the boot looks like. Front wheel wells are pretty bad too.

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Ouch! That is like stage 2 disco cancer. It can certainly metastasize. You better get to cleaning it up and sealing it off or replacing the rusted parts or you may lose the truck. Sorry to see it is so bad. Good luck with it. (And I meant no offense to anyone who has had to personally deal with cancer.)

 

Yes Discomedic thanks. Going to cut it out and replace with aluminum sheet I think in the next few weeks. As much as possible anyway. To bad really as mechanically it's running really well for that last few thousand miles.

 

Yeah thats definatly looking a little rough back there

 

Figures... you have one rusting out but running good, I have one not running with no rust....

 

Here might be the real problem.. See this pic. Even if I can replace most of the rust with new sheet any idea how to fix this problem? I think most of the cross beams are decent, but half of the rear bumper beam is shot. The interior that is. The exterior is "fine". If that's not clear the problem should be in the photo. Thanks.

 

Mine is not nearly that bad. But did you look at the one where the guy in Canada is replacing a great deal of his Disco with panels and such from a Trooper. I forget the title of the thread.

 

yes, armandhammer I believe. has skills I just don't.

 

that is exactly the reason i bought my disco out here in cali before i move back to the midwest. good luck with repairs.

 

Yeah live and learn. Bought it for nothing so not the end of the world. Best I can tell it spent most of it's life in Indiana. I figure I can take the tires and OME springs back off as well as the brush guard and other cool stuff and just start over. Figure I've got about a year left structurally. Stinks as it I replaced most of the coolant system up front, replaced the dash plastic, fixed the windows, installed a new gear shift, unstuck the cdl so it's running really well now. Think I'm just going to bolt and alluminum sheet over all that rot and just let it go. Maybe bolt a new beam onto the inside of the rear bumper and drive it till it falls apart.