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Hey guys - make me an offer on these. I need them out of my garage. If someone can use them hit me up please. Good tread, would be good trail or beater tires. I looked up the manufacture codes and it looks like they are older than I thought - probably 10+ years.

Rust at the top of the side panels fixed. And another 40 holes filled. 😀 same patching trick. Tack it on, then cut the old metal out gradually while slipping the new metal down in

51 :eek: 51 holes drilled in this windshield frame :lol:

Spacers…:lol: got them off after a lot of cussing. Each of the spacers were missing nuts. One rear wheel only had three of the six lugs. Yikes. Now the tires tuck in the fender which is nice.

Got some new cityracer 16” rims and Yokohama’s. 255/85r16. Really happy with the new stance. To my surprise I don’t have standard lug nuts. Wheel bolts threaded into the drums. Is this normal for early trucks? I have one for sure that is stripped out. Not sure how to handle that? Will...

Hey guys - just took these off a 66' fj40. Drove straight and true, balanced OK. Hankook Dynapro MT 33" x 12.5r x 15 rims. I don't know the long history, but these haven't seen much use. The spare was on the back, never rotated in and is brand new. Plenty of tread on the remainders. The...

I want to coat the inside of the doors with something....does 'mud have a good recommendation? I've been looking at the Eastwood products and they look good. I still have quite a bit of scale to work with on the inside of the doors that I'd like to neutralize.

Took my sweet time to keep it cool, and there we go.

Here is a trick that I learned from the YouTube. Instead of cutting out a patch panel and trying to butt weld, tack weld your patch right over the skin that needs to be replaced. Then start cutting right along the edge of the patch panel but cut at a 45 degree angle and only about 6” at a...

Up next is stripping the doors down. Pretty much all of the Phillips head screws needed some extra attention from the grinder to get them to budge. I just cut slots in them with the angle grinder and worked them out with a big flat head screwdriver. Looks like my doors were spring green...

Weekend progress. Spent a lot of time with the dash holes. I’m not certain where I’m going to lay out the all the dash switches so I filled it all in. I’m still stewing on if I can fabricate stock appearing ridges.

This is how I did it with real steel parts https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/widening-stock-wheel-wells-real-steel.1251639/#post-13834604

And removed the rusted rear sill cover. The real steel sill was about 1/4” to long for my opening. Otherwise fit great. The structural member under was really pitted but cleaned up well enough for me. This is the worst rust spot in the truck so I can’t complain 😀. Ignore my terrible...

Here’s the quick write up for the rear openings. https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/widening-stock-wheel-wells-real-steel.1251639/

All tacked up And slowly stitched my way around to finish the weld. Keep the body panels smooth. A bit more weld and grind and that will do it. Thought I’d share as I hadn’t seen this shown here with this kind of patch panel.