Builds 1965 FJ45lv build up/resto thread

[buckroseau]

ah..........man.


That's GOTTA feel good.

Yes,......yes it does

So much left, but still feels good.

 

[Poser]

More amazing work Matt!


What are you going to do while your at Oshkosh???


Were any of those wheels I dropped of useable?



Keep up the good work!!!





-Steve

 

[buckroseau]

More amazing work Matt!


What are you going to do while your at Oshkosh???


Were any of those wheels I dropped of useable?



Keep up the good work!!!





-Steve

Hey Steve,

I haven't even tried the rims yet, sorry. Just been given'r on the body, trying to get that back on. I guess I figure I still got a couple days before I need them

Heading out to Oshkosh next Wed. Morning, July 27th. Should be coming through the Minneapolis area around noonish? If your not going to SD and want to follow us, let me know? Were heading back Sunday morning, so back through Minneapolis around noon again.

I have printed off the forum schedule for the 3 main days I am there, Thurs, Fri. and Sat.

Hoping on Thursday morning to attend a Sheet metal forum and then at 10 there is a hour and half forum on, "Glacier Girl", that P-38 lighting they dug out of 200 ft of ice in Iceland back in 1992. Going to be flying in this year, should be fun to see how they got that out?? At 11:30 there is anothe hour and half forum with Burt Rutan and Sir Richard Branson called the future of space. That ought to be cooler than hell to listen to those guys, Burt the designer and Branson the finiancer. 1 pm, forum on the new debut of the Honda Jet, 2 pm forum on General Aviation Accident investigations. If I can make it, but it may overlap, 2:30, Global flyer, the engineering behind the world flight. 4pm, Forum, training for spaceship one w/ Chuck Coleman, another forum at 4pm I might goto if I don't hit that one is Air hammer techniques

Friday, 8:30 forum, Spaceship one Flight display and Simulator development w/ Jim Tighe from Scaled composites. 10 am, Challenger aircraft forum. 11:30 am, forum, space for the rest of us w/ Burt Rutan. 2:30 pm, forum, A visit w/ Bob Hoover. 5:30 pm, forum, UAV's: the next aviation revolution.

Saturday - 10 am, forum, Flying spaceship one w/ Brian Binnie, Mike Melvill, Burt Rutan and the space ship one team form scaled composites. 10 am (if the previous one is to packed or if I get my fill from the other seminars concerning Rutan) forum, Common Misconceptions about lubrication. 11:30 am, forum, Junkyard wars and home built avation w/ Chuck Slusarcyzk. 1 pm, forum, SR-71 Operation mission from Start to finish w/ Richard Graham. 1pm, forum, Buidling the Legal Eagle and Double Eagle w/ Leonard Milholland.

Some of the more basic forums repeat themselves, like sheet metal 101 and some of the others, so if I don't make them on that day or time I can hit them later that day or another day.

Nothing is set in stone, sometimes I get talking to someone or looking at something and won't make it to a forum. There are 100's of forums going on for those 3 days I am there, still might try to make a TIG welding forum if I get time also, we'll see?

I'm really anxious to see White night and Space ship, the global flyer and Glacier girl in person!! For White night and space ship one Rutan has said that this will be the first and only public apperance that they will make w/ them, so it's kinda cool that way!

In between all those forums and other things there still another 12,000 other airplanes to look at, along with 1000's of vendors and kit manufacture's displaying the product, airshows, etc........all spread out over 40 square miles.

Let me know of were picking your ass up on Wed. afternoon

Matt

 

[Poser]

Matt-

I am leaving town for the Black Hills this Friday 22 JUL at 6am....and will not be back until 01 AUG.


Thanks for the invite, I am certian that we will make it out there sometime.


I am planning on being back up your way in September.... I will let you know the dates when it gets closer....will be neat to see your project again up close.


If you can, have your buddy at least spin those things, and let me know if they will work...I have been trying to find a few more, just incase those are not any good.


Have fun and keep up the great work man!





-Steve

 

[Flyin_Ryan]

Matt, I am absolutely amazed at how fast you and duane busted out the rest of that panel work...I have a feeling that you are going to move along with the roof and fitting everything in the interior faster than you are predicting, unless Lana has more house projects...speaking of her I saw her at Granite City in Fargo on Friday night eating with some summer interns and your neighbors wife...anyway your moving so fast that i'm begining to get worried about how far behind I am on the website. Damn i'm lazy

Keep kickin ass and takin names

Ryan

 

[buckroseau]

Damn i'm lazy

Ryan

Yes you are

 

[buckroseau]

Oh..........the horror...............and you thought all the rust was gone

Spent about 2 hours out in the shop tonight, drilled out a few hundred spot welds around the outside and got the roof off. Actually about what I expected, a lot of rust! Amazing it is that bad?

One thing that did suprise me that is kinda hard to see in the pics is that there's another piece spot welded around the edge. So I actually have to blast what you see, then drill out a few hundred more spot welds, take another piece off and then blast again, then fix all the holes under that. I will probably have to re-fab that secondary piece inside there, it is pretty far gone in several places.

Hopefully I will get a chance to blast Saturday. Local county fair is in town and have to do the husband duties the next 2 evenings with the wife.

The fun never stops.......................

Matt

 

[buckroseau]

more

 

[buckroseau]

some more

 

[buckroseau]

last 2 for tonight

 

[lowenbrau]

I'm really glad you did all the other stuff first. These compound angles are going to be a beatch. You've come so far now though there's no going back. I've been following along from the start and I'm impressed with your tenacity as much as your talent. Best of luck in the following stages!

 

[Poser]

Roseau County Fair!!!!


Whoo-hooo!

 

[treerootCO]

Here, this will make you feel better

 

[Coolerman]

Just got back from a Florida business trip and had to catch up on this thread. You must have a Drill Doctor? Hundreds of holes means lots of sharpening. At least it does with my cheap Harbor Freight steel bits!

Nice fab work on the quarter supports. Where did you learn to bend sheet metal like that? Did you bend the raised ribs on the patch panel or form them somehow? Next question: Was the original sheet metal only 20 ga? I always thought that 18 ga was the thinnest metal used on cruisers? Anyway your wife is a saint to put up with all your hobbies! Take care and keep the "Online Old Toyota Steel Restoration Series" coming...

 

[buckroseau]

Just got back from a Florida business trip and had to catch up on this thread. You must have a Drill Doctor? Hundreds of holes means lots of sharpening. At least it does with my cheap Harbor Freight steel bits!

Nice fab work on the quarter supports. Where did you learn to bend sheet metal like that? Did you bend the raised ribs on the patch panel or form them somehow? Next question: Was the original sheet metal only 20 ga? I always thought that 18 ga was the thinnest metal used on cruisers? Anyway your wife is a saint to put up with all your hobbies! Take care and keep the "Online Old Toyota Steel Restoration Series" coming...

No drill doctor, same bit for all the holes and still sharp. Using a Dewalt pilot point bit, drills flat so doesn't go all the way through, just the top piece.

Bent the raised ribs on the rear quarter out of a piece of 20 ga. and then cut and formed the end of the ribs to teriminate them flat like the stock ones. 18 ga. maybe what they used, 20 ga. is as heavy as I can shear and break in my rig so..........

The wifes pretty good, I just gotta keep sneaking in a few house projects here and there for her Concrete countertops, concrete for the driveway.....next on the list is a large retaining wall out front with a holland stone sidewalk. She shouldn't bitch to much, the LV is for her !!

Matt

 

[buckroseau]

Roseau County Fair!!!!


Whoo-hooo!

Dude, that's huge up here!

 

[buckroseau]

Here, this will make you feel better

A little bit...........

I think the Toyota engineers must have tried to figure out a way to accerlate the rust in the roof area. It's probably the worst area on the entire vehicle.

Matt

 

[cruiserdan]

That is unbelievably ugly under there. How the hell does the highest part rust like that? Does it appear that water was migrating from the drip rail area?

 

[buckroseau]

That is unbelievably ugly under there. How the hell does the highest part rust like that? Does it appear that water was migrating from the drip rail area?

I agree, very ugly. Worse than I even thought?

I have an idea, but only a theory how it may have happened? The headliner pad was installed at the factory prior to the roof being welded on. They ran the headliner pad about 3 or so inches longer into that boxed area where it couldn't be seen unless you removed the roof like I did. I'm thinking over time condesation may slowly come and go, but the pad may have acted like a sponge. Over time the moisture gravitated down from the highest point in the pad/sponge into the lowest point. The lowest point being that boxed in are where the pad was/is. Over time moisture just kept traveling down the sponge into that area for 40 years??

Just a thought, but only thing I can think of?

Matt

 

[treerootCO]

Another thing is as soon as the pad rusted a small hole in the roof, that whole inner roof assembly can hold water.