I was going to do a build thread on this, but I always get carried away with working on it and forget to take pictures along the way. I bought it with the intention of just a quick cleanup and some quick paint, but I got a little carried away.
Anyways, I recently picked this M416 up cheap. The rear panel was already chopped by the previous owner, but I was going to install a tailgate anyways. I welded in some angle to reinforce the rear corners and made very simple hinge pivots on each side. I made the tailgate with angle, 3/4" steel pipe, and some 16ga sheet. I then blasted everything down to bare metal and epoxy primed everything. The chassis got a coat of semi-gloss epoxy paint, and the tub got Raptor Lined tinted with some leftover grey urethane from painting my seat backs and roll bar on the FJ40. I also replated all the hardware, chains, and parking break linkage in yellow zinc (yeah, I got a little carried away, alright), and installed tie down rings at all four corners.
Also, thanks to local mud members SouthBostonFJ for the good deal on a set of fenders, and Nxtdrnaybr for the good deal on some nice 215/85/16's
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Anyways, I recently picked this M416 up cheap. The rear panel was already chopped by the previous owner, but I was going to install a tailgate anyways. I welded in some angle to reinforce the rear corners and made very simple hinge pivots on each side. I made the tailgate with angle, 3/4" steel pipe, and some 16ga sheet. I then blasted everything down to bare metal and epoxy primed everything. The chassis got a coat of semi-gloss epoxy paint, and the tub got Raptor Lined tinted with some leftover grey urethane from painting my seat backs and roll bar on the FJ40. I also replated all the hardware, chains, and parking break linkage in yellow zinc (yeah, I got a little carried away, alright), and installed tie down rings at all four corners.
Also, thanks to local mud members SouthBostonFJ for the good deal on a set of fenders, and Nxtdrnaybr for the good deal on some nice 215/85/16's
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