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Gullwing done!

Been a while! Life's been busy, but last week I took my buddy Miguel out across Utah and Nevada into the Lost Sierra in the Troopcarrier. 2,600 miles round trip. Zero issues. Unless you could third gear, 45 mph up all those Basin and Range...

This Cruiser is off on a road trip! 😍 Cheers

Mud flaps finished, took some customizing on the rear. Cheers

..3 excruciating months passed, bodyworks seems almost there...hopefully still has the stamina and $..lol😝

Been building brackets for the electrical parts. 3KW inverter goes behind the galley. Had to ‘notch’ some metal in the inner well.

Got this beauty installed. It's the little things.

Thanks to @orikawa I have the door cards installed. Thank you Spencer. Love the way it looks. Now I have CarPlay® so can listen to podcasts while working.

Fired up the Prado for the first time in a month or so, it blew a massive cloud of white oil smoke. Oil was blown out of the failed downpipe gasket, and once I got the turbo off I found it had come from the #4 exhaust port. I stuck a...

Since the floor is corrugated I got a sheet of 6061-T6 2 mm thick to install under the marine floor. Probably bedline it.

I had to have the wraparound version. That is the 76/77's party piece! For now the goal is interior access but we'll see. I'm just happy that if I was going to break a window, it would be the one over my right shoulder...(RHD)

It wraps around like the glass?! Dig it! Can't imagine camp life without the gullwings on my rig now. Building an interior box or for interior access?

Finally in hand. A lot of parts and no instructions so I'm guessing they're online? The window is a beauty of a piece! Can't wait to put it in! Edit: found the PDF. Now just need the time to make it happen.

Got the body painted on Sunday. It's definitely red but I don't think it's too red. Got all of the other panels, fenders, doors, etc painted today! Feels good to have this done with. Gonna wait a while to let the paint dry before I start...

Just got word from AUS post... My gullwing window just cleared customs and I should see it maybe mid next week! Finally! The duct tape rear quarter window was getting old. My Cruiser Company lift up window was expedited by the great folks at...

Well, its hard to get much progress done when it rains 3 times on and off every day out of nowhere haha. I am so sick of this. Mad respect to any and all of the bodyshop guys out there cause the mindless sanding, painting, and just everything...

Dash and wiring almost done.

Got a Warn M8000-S, Warn offset hawse fairlead (106880) and Factor 55 Ultrahook (00250-04). Also, wired up the new Stedi 7" Type X foglights. And while I was at it, I installed the greatest deal in Toyota parts history, the 81110-60P70...

Team, I unfortunately have injured my back again and may have to sell this truck because I'm not sure I'll be able to work on it myself. Anyone know someone looking for a troopy with a pop top? I've got no idea what to price this at for a...

Changing it up here on inner/outer fender clearancing. Cheers

The current turbo is a GT1749 from a BHW, injectors are 0.216mm and tune is a custom job from a guy on TDIClub. The new turbo is a GTD2060, new 0.260mm injectors on the way and will get a new tune for the upgraded hardware.

some more shots of the gobbledygook that I removed. none of this stuff really matters, it's really just to illustrate what I was working with. it will be a strong contrast with how it finished up. 8^) --r

Been doing some bondo here and there where I used a stud welder to pull out some dents the troopy had, the circles in the metal thats left behind would look noticably bad. Also bondo'd some of the wheel well that I rewelded as it was quite wobbly...

Alright, I made like 0 progress today 😂 Spent a couple of hours masking/taping-off weather stripping here and there. Then I laid down some more paint on one of the doors, and it just came out like absolute sh!t. Horrible. I was not pleased...

Snorkel is in.