How to free hand a wheel arch
This one will be picture intensive, however, I think it shows how to easily form a wheel arch without using purchased panels, which probably won't fit anyway. A bit of sheet metal, and some welding is all you need. Some old beer case cardboard helps too for...
Meh… not if it’s too thick.
I may grind this off and use the fiberglass reinforced stuff for the first coat when I do the real body work. Just wanted to see what progress looked like.
I also put a ton of 3M seam sealer on the exposed welds in the inside.
Small update today.
Turns out summer in MN is busy… not much time To work on the things I want to as of late.
Was able to do some work on the driver side rear wheel well and lower rear quarter panel. Trying to keep the stock looks to even re created the stiffener in there.
Both rear...
My second favorite thing to unnecessarily spend money on besides my land cruisers is chainsaws…. Each one has a purpose. I used to be a wild land fire fighter back in the day and do some tree work on the side.
Short update today
Disassembled the whole rear floor, cleaned up and treated all the rust around the seat and seatbelt mounts. Inside of the frames were painted. Floor is back In. Still need to re weld and grind a ton of spot welds. But at least the body has some rigidity again.
1984 US Spec FJ60 Axle and Suspension parts
Going to move to FZj80 axles for the Colonel Mustard Project, so I have some parts to move. Would like to keep it Local, but can consider shipping if the buyer makes arrangements.
Builds - Colonel Mustard Revival -...
Rear cross member - tail gate holder onner??
Alright, another tale in the restoration of the most rusty 60 ever, we left off with the rear cross member where the driver side body mount was completely gone, while the drinker side looked pretty good. After much spot weld drilling and cutting, I...
Sarcasm… me…. Never….
We will see how it works. Compared to the wheel arch, rocker, quarter panel rust 3-d puzzle with no actual parts. I actually don’t think it will be that bad to fix, but we will see. I’ll document as I go.
To be clear, this project is a terrible idea. Save your time...
Just for kicks… here is how bad the driver side rear body mount looks.
Should be semi easy to re create this. I’m really getting sick of drilling out spot welds
Not a huge update today. Not as many hours as what I’ve been able to do recently. I also took a break to work on the 80 a bit and put a new bumper and winch on.
The rear body mount on the drivers side is completely shot. Decided the easy way to get to it is to pull the rear floor. Instead of...
The rust is bad…. really really bad….
Well, my home remodel project is done for a few weeks, I still have a kitchen backsplash to do, but it can wait. Metal work is more fun than housework. I did do some work on the frame, but that can wait until another update. For now, I was sick of only...