is this nothing more than just surface rust?

and how exactly does that crap get inside of there?? especially by the back of there
i look on my truck and have NO CLUE how it would get inside there if the rubber plugs/flaps are tight and secure in the rocker panels
 
Who knows how water may have seeped in. Owner could have even left his window open several different times when it rained. Once water gets in those rockers, and doesn't drain...it will never dry out.
I've even seen salt spray eat through the bottom of those rockers when left untreated, if you spend several hours a week driving on winter treated roads. Those older steel ford f-150's were noted for the same area getting chewed out. At any rate when you live in the rust belt, gen1 tacoma's were notorious from rotting from the inside out...the gen2 not as much, but with both usually when you see it, its too late to do much about it, other than seeing a body shop.
 
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i had some guy in northern Wisconsin once copping a feel on the rockers on my rig
he couldn't believe they were still unrotted lmao
i routinely rinse that salt off my rig during the wintertime
rinse it off until my knuckles are numbed from the 20 degree cold
 
Nice to see you're still able to crawl around under rusty trucks. Better be aware though, unless thats your taco....someday you'll run into a trucks owner wondering what your doing under his truck, that might not be so thrilled.
 
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lol why not?
my rig is relatively clean underneath there comparted to that one
i can offer some suggestions to use the cosmoline :cool:
 
It's too late for any cosmoline for the taco in the above pic. More like an off frame chassis restoration is required, beginning with a good metal fabricator, and welder, or can you say boneyard?
 
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Imo, you have 3 choices
Door #!...chassis restoration doing fabrication, and welding.
Door #2...new frame
Door #3...boneyard, or part it out
 
Typical for those gen1 frames. They always rot from the inside out unless their protected. Gen2's are nearly as bad. You can never get the moisture out from inside those frames once it gets in there.
 
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