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Location
Brisbane, Australia
Website
www.practicalaquaponics.com
hey guys just picked up my pig yesterday! pretty good nick considering some of the jobs i have seen on these pages! The vitals are, it was born 1979, now she's almost 500,000 kms (320,000 miles???) old. recently had front hubs reco'd new bushes thrughout. i believe it to be to original drivetrain from front to back. Im pretty sure she was red before it was painted the current poo colour, (will probly restore her to the red colour) as i can see it coming thru in many places. will have many questions to follow as i have never taken on a job like this before. will be both fun and scary. hope to do her proud!
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im scared to start chipping away at this rust, anyone heard of Pandora and he/r box?

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obligitory poser pic (more, many more to follow)

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same here: not too sure how deep this will go..
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the above pic is one of my rear abmo style doors, piggy porn to some over in the states i believe.

seems its dropping the attachment to the bottom of the page...

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this is inside (looking towards the rear, from inside tyre well) the LH, would be your drivers side my passengers side front qtr panel. this is the 'bad' one. from the out side the panel sits out further than the door would this be due to the fact that, that main support is rusted and not holdig the panel back in??

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same qutar panel from the outside, not sure the pic really shows how far out it is sticking about 3mm (this is going to test me 5/32" ???)
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hah i felt like a right dumbass until i found the little handle in this pic to release the back seat bottom cushion. was dreading to thought of having to ask you guys :P

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can anyone tell me weather these are the standard tools for a '55? they dont seem to sit up on the underside of teh seat where i asume they belong? they appear too big, possibly made by a PO?

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all the rear seat belts coiled up under the rear seat, will eed to give these guys some TLC to try get them look reasonable again
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left side rear tower

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right side rear tower

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LPG tank, in the bloody way there takes up far too much room if u ask me, but the economy is soo much greater than running petrol.
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rust in the bottom of the LH rear ambo door

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rust in the bottom of the RH rear ambo door in close to the hinge
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same door just towards the centre of the door
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two pics above are of the same rust spot in behind the LH rear quarter panel, looking from under the sliders towards the wheel well.

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Piggy sitting there at carlovers after her fist wash, HUGE difference in just washing the beauty, will cut and polish her, for some reason i think this is a good idea, the apint is shot! atleast it will get rid of the rust runs that are on the paint :p
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Hey mate, looks like you have yourself a project! I could be wrong but I thought that all FJ55's in Aus came out with the white/brown two tone paint job. Mine is all white but it was originally owned by the SES so I assumed that it was painted when it was purchased. I could be wrong though! Remember the old Telecom FJ55's? They were painted orange. I remember them driving around when I was a kid.
 
really?? ok i have very little/no knowledge about these accept me likey :P they just look tough! you take a look at pic#9 i think? of the rear doors where the nuberplates are 'normally' bolted on, there is alot of paint peeled off and its red and a many other places you can see it coming thru, maybe it was a respray of better quality and is just sticking better :P
 
plan was to get a little nuts with it, but my old man just bought a few 70's that i might molest, keep this stock. if legal hwere in aus might go a SOA but keep her close to stock? still deciding. :P
 
what about with engineering? im yet to even look into this at all. but makes sense over spendint alot of cash on lifting s*** and having modded parts on the pig. rathe have an SOA set up with stock gear??? but thas just me :P
 
what about with engineering? im yet to even look into this at all. but makes sense over spendint alot of cash on lifting **** and having modded parts on the pig. rathe have an SOA set up with stock gear??? but thas just me :P

a SOA setup with stock gear is not ideal, if you want to look at doing a proper setup you will want to consider things such as hy-steer and cut and turning the knuckles which could end up being more costly. not sure about engineering on a SOA setup but i know u cant register a car that has it in QLD unless it came like that out of the factory like on a hilux although i have even heard of people getting snapped for it on thier hilux's although its a stock setup!
 
yeah i know of the hy-steer which i was planning on doing but the knuckles is still a bit of a mystery to me......?
 
Funny that you mentioned Pandora... My FJ40 is christened "Pandora's Box" as when I first opened her hood, all the evils came out!! Nice score!

Brian
 
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