84 GMC Cab

[rainman15]

My 84 GMC that I recently inherited from my late father-in-law has some pretty bad cab floor / rocker panel / kick panel rust issues.  Funny thing is the front clip, doors and bed are perfect.  Weird.  Anyway I'm planning to just replace the cab rather than try to cut out / replace that much sheet metal.  Anyone know of a source for a new cab for my truck? 

[fitz]

Other than the fibreglass cabs that look like a real pain to install I think you are out of luck finding brand new cab. To the best of my knowledge no one is making a replacement metal cab for our trucks. Your best bet is finding a used rust free cab. They generally sell in the $1000 range in most areas.
Do you have any pictures of the rust on your cab. I know pictures can hide a lot of things, but I'm from Mass So your cab looks pretty good to me.

[Blazin]

Yeah that looks next to mint as far as I am concerned! How about some better pics of the rust? If what you have in the pic is the worst you would be foolish to swap cabs, allot of work for nothing. Popping a couple inner, and outer rockers, two cab corners, and fixing a little floor rust is easy.

[80stepsideguy]

If your willing to take everything apart just to replace the cab i say you can find cabs anywhere I/E ebay/craigslist,;local papers.. But if your not willing to swap cabs i say replace the bad metal as its not that hard to do...

But blazin is right show us some pics of the real bad areas....

thanks
pat

[rainman15]

Trust me, it is MUCH worse than that picture shows.  I only posted that to give a reference of what the truck looks like and what year it is.  As soon as I get some inside pictures uploaded I'll post em up.  There is more rust on firewall near the master cylinder, completely rusted through, I can see daylight through the part of the floor where the floor pan meets the kick panels, and the inside of the door jams on both sides the rocker panels were already repaired once and have broken through with rust again pretty bad.  I thought I saw an episode of trucks where Stacy replaced an entire cab in an old chevy with one he got on the aftermarket.  Perhaps that was a different year truck he was working on.  I think he painted it like an orange or gold color and put a 572 crate in it.  Ring a bell?

[Captkaos]

Copperhead, it was a 67-72 cab and as far as I remember he replaced it with an another cab from a donor.  They don't make 67-72 or 73-87 complete cabs from the aftermarket.

[80stepsideguy]

The 67 copperhead cab was a original cab not a replacement, I`d say look on craigslist for a donar cab and do the swap... Its not hard just gonna take some time but make sure while the new cab is in your possesion to paint the color of the truck or do your bodywork while its off.It makes it alot easier that way then when on the truck, then you can paint the friewall whatever color your going to paint the truck.. Some dont reccomend this but the cab you get, pop the vin tag off and put yours on when the cab is swapped and then chop up the old cab and scrap it..Thats what i did to my 2 cabs since the guy i got my cab from had lost the title and sold his truck for parts and showed me the vin from the cab and his licence to verify it was legit.. I made him sign a contract that the cab is legit and not stolen,just to clear by behind if anything happens..
thanks
pat

[frogman68]

Like every one said Pics Chris (Capt Kaos) sells everything to fix the floor. Think it would be easier to fix what ya got then to have to tear the whole truck down