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Remove all the components, drill out the spot welds for the rusted panels, probably about 100 of them. Get new panels and weld them back in. Very difficult procedure and somewhere in the expert skill level. Suggestion is get another car and turn that one in for scrap metal.
There's not a whole lot you can do about a rusted out floorboard. If it's just rusting a little bit, you can probably get away with cleaning off the rust with steel wool or a wire brush and treating it with some naval jelly, then painting it with a good rust converting paint or underbody coating.
If it's already weakening the metal, the only solution is to weld a new piece of sheet metal in place.
faxonautoliterature lists a build manual for your truck for $30. I bought one for my 82 Chevy and it is a copyof the instructions for each station on the assembly line. Could be exactly what you are looking for. They also have the dealer service manual for under $50. Hope this helps.
Not sure how you want to go about doing the repair or what tools or resources are at your disposal. You could rivet, braze, or weld stainless sleel, sheet metal into place. You could repair the area/s with regular sheet metal and then coat it with Rihno bed liner or something comparable to it. I've used Rihno, its great. Well let me know if that helps or gives you some other ideas.
Surface rust can be worse than it appears so then in that case, the bad spots will have to be cut out and new metal welded in its place. (Look at the rust from underside of the panel--moisture gets there and rusts from the inside out) Paint chips can be sanded down. As far as a quote, here in southeast Missouri ...it would be $1600-$1700 for a full body paint job.
Unusual problem this one as what you describe is usualy associated with poor brake shoe adjustment,warped or out of round brake drum,rust or contaminants on drum or shoes or hard compound shoes.Are there any shiny marks on drum or shoes that shouldnt be there?If theyre new and had very little mileage they could still be bedding in but doesnt seem logical as a properly set up set of shoes should have bed in by now unless the original owner over heated them before they bedded in.Sorry cant give you a more precise answer would need to have vehicle to clean ,inspect and readjust but hope therse something here that helps.Good luck
This was an easy project with an untrained assistant. I set gasket around window glass and then with the help of a slotted or regular small screwdriver, slipped the window and gasket bottom first onto metal of window frame and worked it all around untill finished with assistant on outside of pickup in the bed applying slight pressure while I was inside of cab using screwdriver to slip gasket into metal frame.
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