Rear Cargo Area interior Panels

[Andrew Hare]

My 1988 GMC Jimmy had quite a bit of rear floor damage due to rust and someone had butchered up the rear side panels when they installed 6 X 9's in the back instead of the 4 X 10 factory style. Now that I've got the rear floor about all patched up I'm curious to what everyone is doing for these panels when they fall apart? I work in an auto body shop & acquired some cardboard boxes to use to make templates. I want a stock looking panel with a custom flare. I guess the question is What is everyone using for a backing material?

 

[Hosalabad]

There is a thread here with templates.

Check up in here post 17: https://ck5.com/forums/threads/interior-side-panel-template.298492/

No suggestion on materials though, sorry.

 

[rpcraft]

I originally did my first set on my old 77 Jimmy using some 1/4 inch birch plywood and when I made them I cut two pieces stacked together. I just kind of started with 2 big rectangles clamped together. Laying out the wheel wells was easy enough, and once I seperated them I drew on the area around the gas fill tunnel and trimmed it a little to fit better after a couple of test fits. I combined that with some black vinyl I got at one of my local all in one hardware stores but I am sure now days you can get it off ebay easy enough. I used some Stainless sheet metal screws that had a large stainless concave cap underneath the screw head to prevent cutting into the vinyl and giving a nice finished appearance that would withstand occasional wetness if I got caught somewhere without my back cap on. I am probably going to do the exact same thing on my newer Jimmy but the only thing I will probably do different is use some foam padding between the wood and vinyl, 3m adhesive spray so it doesn't flutter, and I am considering building a subwoofer enclosure on the drivers side just to kind of keep my system from being obvious to prying eyes.

Also going to do noise reduction material on the inside of the bed sides.

 

[Andrew Hare]

I originally did my first set on my old 77 Jimmy using some 1/4 inch birch plywood and when I made them I cut two pieces stacked together. I just kind of started with 2 big rectangles clamped together. Laying out the wheel wells was easy enough, and once I seperated them I drew on the area around the gas fill tunnel and trimmed it a little to fit better after a couple of test fits. I combined that with some black vinyl I got at one of my local all in one hardware stores but I am sure now days you can get it off ebay easy enough. I used some Stainless sheet metal screws that had a large stainless concave cap underneath the screw head to prevent cutting into the vinyl and giving a nice finished appearance that would withstand occasional wetness if I got caught somewhere without my back cap on. I am probably going to do the exact same thing on my newer Jimmy but the only thing I will probably do different is use some foam padding between the wood and vinyl, 3m adhesive spray so it doesn't flutter, and I am considering building a subwoofer enclosure on the drivers side just to kind of keep my system from being obvious to prying eyes.

Also going to do noise reduction material on the inside of the bed sides.

Thanks I appreciate the info please keep me posted on any of the other info that you may have on the subject.