I'm looking for a sunroof wind deflector, they're kind of hard to find so if anyone has one that they want to get rid of or knows where to buy one. I had one on my 80 series but it got ripped off a couple weeks ago and i'd like to replace it.
i appreciate the price drop for shipping, but for how much surface rust is on those axles and how much cleanup i'd need to do i was thinking closer to $1500.
there are a lot of rust spots on the tailgate, and i'm kind of at a point that i want to just replace it and start with something fresh instead. as far as i've seen a lot of people who fix the issue it ends up coming back and they have to do the same thing again.
where did you manage to find a rust free tailgate? if i could find one then i'd love to get my hands on it. i think if you had a rust free tailgate you could probably pull the window out and maybe put some sealer primer ot something in there to seal the pinch weld and protect it better from...
thanks for the info, there's also a place in utah that has a lot of 80 series and they might have a replacement. i'm going to give them a call tomorrow, and i could drive down and pick it up in person. i'd prefer not to pay shipping if i can avoid it.
here's some pictures of the rust btw
as you can see it's pretty bad, and i'm sure it's a lot worse underneath. i'd honestly prefer to replace it with something cleaner that i could just do an easy touchup on if needed than doing a full on cut and weld.
i just looked at your build thread to see what you did, i think it looks pretty good. do you think if i got a decent donor hatch and cut out the same piece from the donor (obviously depending on if there was rust there or not) that that would work? i have an angle grinder, but i don't have any...
the rust is pretty bad. i haven't pulled the window out to take a look yet because i've been in school and it's my only car, so i need it to be intact until i'm at my parents house again over the spring and have time to take a better look. but there's two spots where the rust is starting to poke...
i've been having trouble finding a body shop that will even consider treating the rust. i would totally be okay paying someone to do it but no one locally seems to be interested in fixing it.
i can't seem to find the fiberglass rear hatch, i'll keep searching and see if i can find anything.
i was thinking the same thing for a rollover. but besides that i was having a hard time coming up with a reason that the rear tailgate might be important to the structure of the body. i'm not really interested in testing that, just kind of speculating what it could be.
i've been having the...
so this is kind of a weird question. i did some searching and didn't find anything that really answered this questions. but i was wondering if the upper tailgate hatch affects the overall structural rigidity of the body of the truck? like if hypothetically if the upper tailgate was missing but...
That's the exact guide I found earlier. I have some rust coming out from under the seal and I want to get it fixed before I have to replace the whole door. Thanks for the recommendation!