4 door Fj45 on 80 series chassis (2 Viewers)

[Blackknight1]

Let's try it on the truck

 

[Blackknight1]

Continuing on today. Building the wheel wells
As always, we made the templates out of cardboard first. We'll use 16 gaige for that .

 

[Blackknight1]

We got a lot done today. We took out the exhaist system from the driver 's side and transfered it to the the passenger side.
We also continued with the bed. We are almost done with one. Hopefully we can finish this and do the floor next.

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Do you have a pocket/mold/form you're forming those floor ribs with underneath the panel? They look great.

 

[ceylonfj40nut]

Great work. Simply done. Wonderful.

 

[Blackknight1]

Do you have a pocket/mold/form you're forming those floor ribs with underneath the panel? They look great.

No. No mold or pocket. As you saw, it's all done the old school way with a hammer and a set of dull chisels. Thanks for your interest .

 

[Blackknight1]

Wheel wells are done. Took 1 day for each.... danm .... I do have a bead roller but it would not work for 16 gauge steel. I like the way these look. Enjoy the pics

 

[Blackknight1]

And the finished product.

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Respect!! Keep it up!

 

[FuglyYota]

You guys have mad skills. Seeing you pound this out on a dirt/concrete floor and come out clean, consistent, and looking great is amazing. Awesome seeing this come together, very humbling to see such cool work done with basic tools and skill which I’m sure took a lot of years and practice. Good to remember we don’t always need high dollar tech to make stuff work, just grab some cardboard, metal, good hammer and don’t be afraid to get after it.

I have a pair of ‘69 doors that the lower skins are rotted out on, this thread is inspiring me to give it a shot. Thanks guys, and can’t wait to se more!

 

[Blackknight1]

You guys have mad skills. Seeing you pound this out on a dirt/concrete floor and come out clean, consistent, and looking great is amazing. Awesome seeing this come together, very humbling to see such cool work done with basic tools and skill which I’m sure took a lot of years and practice. Good to remember we don’t always need high dollar tech to make stuff work, just grab some cardboard, metal, good hammer and don’t be afraid to get after it.

I have a pair of ‘69 doors that the lower skins are rotted out on, this thread is inspiring me to give it a shot. Thanks guys, and can’t wait to se more!

Thank you for the compliments. We try hard. Glad you like it. Your words inpire us to keep going.

 

[Blackknight1]

As fate has it, nothing will ever be easy...... we were having a great day when the generator decided to giveup on us . Of course..... so i wasted valuable time fixing it. Then my wife called wanting me to travel to the States for Thanksgiving...... i giess i won't be doing much for another week or so.
I tell myself that it's ok..... i guess i'll male a list of things i need for the projects. Hell.... i hope that Back Box finally showed up at our house in Florida . Now that will make it all ok ....
Anyway, all i did yesterday was adjust the bed on the frame at proper height and side to side..... looks like i'm gonna need to fabricate some pretty wide over fenders . Debating between fiberglass or metal. Here are pics of yesterday's progress .

 

[Blackknight1]

Got to Florida and of course, NO BLACK BOX. So i called Nortwest Fab. Their site claimed a turn around time of 6 weeks..... Guess what ? They told me that it is now 8-10 weeks.... Jesus , that sucks !!!!
The guys at the shop built the bed floor while i'm traveling . I guess that's better than nothing...

 

[Blackknight1]

Still not back yet but the guys kept things going. The floor os tack welded . My radiator came in ,so that's one good thing. Here's some pictures

 

[Blackknight1]

Ok. I'm back. Actually i've been back for weeks and we' ve been working on this project and others for weeks. Not as much as i wanted to but we have gotten things done.
The bed is finished , just needs a tail gate and mounts, a slew of rotten panelshave been fabbed up and are being replaced.
Should have kept up with the wrote up but i did not, sorry. So i'll post the pics of all we did and from here on i'll do better at keeping you all updated. This is all up to now.

 

[Blackknight1]

And some more.....

 

[Blackknight1]

And finally....

 

[Blackknight1]

We reinforced the steering box mount on the chassis. You all probably know that big tires put a lot of stress on the chassis at the box mounting point and can even crack the frame bad. Here a few pics of that

 

[Blackknight1]

That truck had been repaired quote a few times prior to me buying it. It was repaired quote a few times . The are places where an excess of 3 layers of sheet metal are stacked on top of each other ..... i'll never understand why people do that....

 

[Blackknight1]

We only worked half the day but we got some more stuff done. Both rocker panels are tacked into place. We also started modifying the mud guards so they can fit over the coil springs and shocks
To do that, i drilled out the spot welds from some brand new fenders i had laying around. Instead of chopping on the insides of the fenders and possibly ruining them, i preferred getting them out the way .