[rhino1]

i am replacing the quarters and rockers, full rockers, for a customers car. i have replaced just quarters before and just outer rockers, but not both on both sides of a car. should i weld in some temporary angle iron braces in diagonal through the door openings and across to the other door opening?

say in this picture the door were not there. the red lines would be my angle iron. weld one end at the top corner of the quarter and the other end at the bottom of the hinge pillar. then one from the top of the hinge pillar to the center of the first brace? then where i have the green circle, weld one there to the same spot on the pass side? would this be necessary?

[Veronica]

Hello. If you are not also replacing the floor pan, I would first do the rockers, then do the quarters. You wouldn't need to weld in any bracing that way, possibly creating an ugly spot somewhere that will just be more needless work, or, worse, have something creep off sideways on you anyway. But, that's just me. Others might have other perfectly good ways of doing it.