Seat Hump Patch Panel?

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A quick googling hasn't yielded any helpful results, so I'm asking here.
Are there Seat Hump patch panels out there?
My floor/rocker rust extends pretty well up the vertical portion of the seat hump and it doesn't look like the commercial patch panels would cover it. I could try to find a sacrificial cab to cut pieces from, but id rather try to source new panels if I can. I'm attaching pics, so you can see what I'm looking at.
Just need someone to point me in the right direction...

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I don't believe there are any patch panels available for the seat hump. Or any existing floor panels that have that much material.
 

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Hey that’s about what my floor looks like
My patch panel was the convenient sized piece of wood I shoved in there to have a floor of some kind.
 

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Holy Toledo, brother - get your butt down here to Texas and snag yourself a rust free cab! Let me know when you're coming and I'll have a few lined up for you to look at!
 

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LOL. I'm lost for words. You're in @AuroraGirl territory there!
Mine had a soggy carpet laying on it for years so I truly think it’s artificially worse than it would have been if there wasn’t a household rug under the vinyl mat…my grandpa was strange.
I removed the carpet
 

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Holy Toledo, brother - get your butt down here to Texas and snag yourself a rust free cab! Let me know when you're coming and I'll have a few lined up for you to look at!

What he said
 

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Fred Flintstone had more floor.

In the words of the famous body man Bones McCoy.......

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Holy Toledo, brother - get your butt down here to Texas and snag yourself a rust free cab! Let me know when you're coming and I'll have a few lined up for you to look at!
Yes, Cab replacement! Thousands of ‘em out there. That thing is long gone
 

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Cab swap is the easiest solution but dont be scared to fix what you have. Keep in mind if you dont find a super clean cab your going to end up doing most of that same work anyway. When i started this one it looked pretty clean but after cutting away all the junk i ended up with something similar to what you have. No better place to practice body work than on something you can throw a floor mat over.
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I got in touch with a guy yesterday that said he'd let me cut out what I need from a truck he's parting out and it looked pretty clean in the area I need. So, I think I'll be able to salvage it.
The other side needs work, too. But this is the worst of it, on the cab. The bed might be a different story. We'll jump off that bridge when we get to it.
 

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@Phil 83K20,

I have never seen anything like that!! Now I've seen a whole floor gone but yours even has the lower chassis gone, even where the front cab support is supposed to be attached is gone but the cab support is still intact. How is that possible? You aren't driving this truck are you? I would think you would be in danger of falling out onto the road, ha, ha. Talk about being in @Auroragirl('s) league, no, she's pretty bad but this may have taken the cake even for her rust. It's just mind boggling!!

You may have to put your cab in a jig to make sure it's straight or weld in some heavy pieces of tubing crisscrossing the door opening after making a lot of measurements or the door will never close right, or even fit the opening.

Then just save yourself a lot of future work and cut the whole floor out and replace it. Go to LMC and see what they have. Even pieces that could be welded together and then put in.
 

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The truck was registered, when I got it. He had some sheet metal screwed down and the edges smeared with seam-sealer. It was actually a reasonably good patch job, if you didn't care how it looked.


Everything is still in alignment, amazingly.
The floor supports are both toast, but are holding everything together just fine.
I welded up where the support was cracked with a piece of scrap, for now, and I'll be able to align everything just by doing it in place and using the frame and existing parts to reference off of.

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@Phil 83K20,

Ha, ha, ha, ha, Man!! My god that is incredible! What did you weld to?? I don't see anything to weld to, Ha, Ha, Ha! That is so funny. I've never seen anything like that. Didn't you say the passenger side was almost as bad??
 

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sorry i am short of photos of the blue cab
 

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