Media Blasting, what do you take off and what do you leave on?

[skorpioskorpio]

There seems to be lots of places on the Jimmy/Blazers where stuff is bolted on, probably for initial assembly and then the remainder is welded. There are other places that I'm not sure would be worth the effort to unbolt. Just wondering those that have blasted their trucks what you unbolted and what you left on. Specifics:

The dash is bolted on on the bottom but that panel is welded at the windshield seam. Do you take the bolts out?

The rear wheel wells, I know these are bolted to the bed but are they welded to the inner bed panels? Do you take the bolts out?

There is bolts behind the rockers at the front and rear pillars that do not look like removing them would result in a removable piece of any sort, Do you take the bolts out?

I'm having mine blasted with the rockers off to clean out inside the torque boxes, the torque boxes have caps on the rear that are bolted on, Do you take the bolts out and remove these panels?

[SS Tim]

Might want to take a look through the assembly manual Blazer body section. Several body parts IIRC were a bolt to locate then weld.