Recent content by H0ki3

I would like a right side repair panel and a right rocker if you have. I’ll PM you also. Thank you. LJ71

How are your cab mounts? Mine are basically gone. Floor in better shape than yours tho. Someone hacked at sheet metal in the wheel wells in mine to fit 35s in Japan. That let the salt and water in.

Yea it’s done now though. I think what I did will work fine. Door seals and it look’s factory-ish

Inner rocker on left side was pretty good. I patched one area. The rocker to B pillar and quarter area was weird to fix. I didn’t know how to really go about fixing it. A friend with a 78 sent me a pic of his and I tried to copy. It appears it all just spot welded and seam sealed together so...

Left side is getting close. Need to seam seal all the new parts I made, some quick filler work and paint. I’m buying a kit of tintable raptor and some PPG paint to mix in it. Do the bottom sections. I’ll try to blend in the repair under the window. Just needs a little more work. Other...

What insurance did you use? I mentioned “using around the house” and Hagerty refused to insure it. Said they don’t insure utility vehicles, that I couldn’t haul anything in it.

I went to DMV today and titled and put Antique tags on it. This is vehicle #7 currently. It won’t see a whole lot of road use.

Red area roughly shows what I want to do in dark green bedliner. This is the area I’m replacing metal and I think I can make it look OK by using the body lines the break it up.

I think the plan is to get to tint-able bedliner and do a 4 inch swath of the rear quarters (up to the body line) and do the bottom of the doors and a 2.5 inch swath over the fenders (to body line). I’ll tint it the body color, kind of a metallic dark forest green (it was red originally). This...

Welding welding welding. Pretending I know what I’m doing. Started a build thread just now.

With new motivation I tackled the worst areas of rust. The rocker and B pillar and wheel well lip. I ended up making about 5 parts that get welded, spot welded, or seam sealed in. My buddy has a nice Prado 4 door and sent me pictures of how it should look and what is seam sealed vs welded. It’s...

After a few weeks of rust removal and welding I was getting burnt out. I can only work 8PM-10PM most days, was getting repetitive . I’d kept an eye out for some used 35s and a decent deal came up in some Toyota Reps in bright bronze with like new Kenda Kleavers, we met on a decent price for a...

It was basically rinse and repeat of find rust, cut out rust, replace with new metal. Quarter, rocker, radiator support, b pillar, I haven’t bought any patch panels so far. I did go buy a small sheet metal brake and a set of shrinker stretchers to help make parts. I also got 2 cans of weld...

week 2 of ownership I was mostly out of town celebrating our 10 year anniversary. When I got back I pulled the back left window and started cutting out the rust hole there. It annoyed me to look at. I got a full sheet of 18 gauge sheet metal and started making patches. window was first and...