rusted interior panel help. '91 K5
 

I just picked up a '91 K5 that has the normal rust areas (rockers and lower quarters) but I also have an area that I cannot find a repair panel for. It is in the rear seat, kick panels, where the front seat belts attach. Does anyone know of a source for repair panels for this area? I would really hate to have to fab that area as I havn't done that level of work in a while and I am very Rusty<<pun intended.

have you tried LMC yet?

Yes, they were the first place I looked. I also went to JC Whitney and every site I could find via Google search.
What's odd is that it looks like part of that area is bolted in. I can only "assume" that it was made that way to access the seat belt bolt.

have you tried Cross Canada yet?

here's their web site;

www.crosscanadaparts.com

just click on the "guest login" to view the site.

Thanks for the link. I checked them out also. They do not carry that panel either.
Looks like the only to get that area as a panel is to buy a complete bedside. Can you say OUCH$$$$$. Guess I will have to make a trip to my local sheet metal supplier and fab them up myself. The floorpans are also rusted in that area but only about 2" from the side. If anyone has a pic of the area behind the carpet it would be helpful, so I can have an idea as to how it is supposed to look.

here's a pic of the aforementioned area

my first blazer had holes so big there you could drop a gallon of milk through them. it seems pretty straight there can you just add in flat piece of metal. and have you pulled up your carpet yet to see if the hole is under there too.

No but I've been under it and the floor pans and supports are rusted pretty bad about 3" in from the sides.
All in all, I have many panels to do. Inner & outer rockers, rear cab supports, rear floors, front inner fenders, lower rear quarters(front) complete tail pan, and the aforementioned rear seat kick panels.
But hey, for $750 for a Blazer with only 116k on it I could not turn it away. 4X4's down here in that condition run 2-3 times that price.

sounds like here in north illinois. where you from? my last fullsize i went down to mississippi to get cause im sick of dealing with what your going through

I'm in Florida, but I bought the truck off a guy who just moved down here from N.Y.
Considering it spent most of it's life up there it is not as bad a I would expect. I had a '74 K10 long bed scottsdale that I bought in VT in 1985(11yrs. old) that was rusted up to the mirrors, and it only took me a week to rebuild the body. It's nice when you can get all the panels at once and fit them in unison.