What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week? (56 Viewers)

[bikersmurf]

Fabricated custom bracelets to mount a 2003-2006 Tj bench seat.

Painted the hinges and frame since they were raw metal.

Paint job wasn’t perfect but it’ll never see the light of day again.

When tumbled forward it just touches the back of the driver’s seat. The seat lifts out with a pull of a lever. It’s about the best fitting bench seat I’ve seen… short of a custom seat made from scratch.

 

[bikersmurf]

In progress picture but it shows the space well. Brackets weren’t installed yet.

upholstery came off easily so I painted the raw metal.

The seat is spring loaded so it should stay tipped forward.

In progress while fabricating the brackets.

 

[Jordan85]

Stopped by an impromptu local cars and coffee.

 

[RevISK]

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Stopped by an impromptu local cars and coffee.

Looking good.

 

[cims1970fj40]

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Stopped by an impromptu local cars and coffee.

I like the color

 

[tweek99]

I'm doing the least enjoyable part of a rebuild.

 

[SergP]

Replace rust with new metal...

 

[Gimme a 60]

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In progress while fabricating the brackets.

POROSITY!

 

[mattressking]

Drove around town then prepped for a ride in this 389 with a C15 ACERT swap from Bend, Oregon to Philly. This thing is an absolute freight train, nothing better than a Cat.

 

[bikersmurf]

Driove around town then prepped for a ride in this 389 with a C15 ACERT swap from Bend, Oregon to Philly. This thing is an absolute freight train, nothing better than a Cat.

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Beautiful trucks… I miss driving them. Although your roads look a lot flatter than many I’ve driven on.

 

[bikersmurf]

POROSITY!

A bit… not enough to cause an issue. The solid rod goes all the way through and is welded on both sides. Since the metal was very clean I believe I wasn’t running quite enough shielding gas.

 

[Gimme a 60]

A bit… not enough to cause an issue. The solid rod goes all the way through and is welded on both sides. Since the metal was very clean I believe I wasn’t running quite enough shielding gas.

It’s usually the shielding gas.

More flow rate needed!

 

[JDNs78FJ40]

New exhaust now in place. Now on to fixing that lean!

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What’s the plan to fix the lean?

 

[JKIII FJ40]

New exhaust now in place. Now on to fixing that lean!

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Rex in Bama, can you upload some pics on how you routed your exhaust? It appears you went along the outer frame rail? Based on the axle Im guessing this was the stock routing but Im curious. Thanks

 

[cims1970fj40]

What’s the plan to fix the lean?

This will correct it

 

[Chungas Revenge]

This will correct it

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Better switch the springs to heavy and add the 12ply’s..That’s a “whole lotta Rosie”…

 

[pb4ugo]

One of my 40s has the lean. Decades ago b4 the internet and running a 4" skyjacker lift, i got tired of looking at the lean. I took a ton of measurements resulting in no solutions. So, i decided to swap rear springs from side to side. To my surprise, that didn't work. Later, I found out about the Toyota leveling pads and thought lowering the high side was nutz. Why would anybody want to lower the vehicle? I ended up making a longer shackle. Lowering the shackle frame mount might work too and not be as noticeable.

 

[steffan]

Mine looks similar and it is perfectly normal. As long as the paint is applied thick enough there shouldn’t be any concerns with sanding and buffing out the orange peel as long as you are wet sanding. I have 4 coats of paint and 3 coats of clear that I will be wet sanding this summer.

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You can see that I shot the side of the hood a little thick. It is wet enough to have a deep shine from other angles so I’m fairly confident that the orange peel will sand/buff out.

I had put on 2 heavy coats - single stage epoxy. I was concerned about going through but only had one small area in the rear where I went into the primer. Mostly due to carelessness: got two close to the edge of the rear window. Fortunately, I think it will be cover by the window gasket

 

[steffan]

I am surprised you have any paint left after all that! Is yours "two toned"? Beige on the outside and blue interior?

It’s all one color - supposed to be capri blue (it was color matched from the original color. The garage lighting makes it look completely different depending on the angle - everything from silver to green

 

[Mike Shull]

I had put on 2 heavy coats - single stage epoxy. I was concerned about going through but only had one small area in the rear where I went into the primer. Mostly due to carelessness: got two close to the edge of the rear window. Fortunately, I think it will be cover by the window gasket

Those corners are tricky! Your efforts are paying off as it looks beautiful!