71-fj40 in house rest.and it's done

[Oil leaks]

I purchase this LC on Craig's while I was shopping for LR parts so I'm new to these trucks.i had finished a frame off on a110 LR at the end of 2012 and I didn'needed another rest.but after I loaded the top on the LR with lots of junk, I needed something to go topless and this was the ideal toy.
The photos I will be posting are from my IPhone so quality it's not the best
I did not clean the garage or setup to take these photos ( I think that's the reason some rest.take 10 years to complet)
I join this forum at the same time I purchased the LC and that was on January of2013 and was finished on December of 2013, all done in my garage except for sandblast the tub and powder coat.
Be patient with me as computers are not my thing and ingles is my second language.
Thanks for all the good information I got from this super forum and it's members.

Demo starts.

This when was delivered.

 

[TheLoyale]

I am looking forward to seeing more of this restoration! Keep it going

 

[winnie]

hmmm, truck looks familiar, or more accurately the bezel looks familiar ... maybe you have posted pictures in another thread ... looking forward to following your refurbishment ...

 

[Oil leaks]

This LC lived it's life on east coast so rust was part of the deal.I don't have many photos of the rust since I was going to fix'it I don't want any bad memories.The rust was on the usual places like,rockers,quarter panels,fenders,rear sill,rear frame member and some patches on the tub.

Cutting and welding starts treated the inside with with POR 15

New quarter panels and rockers from ccot

Will have Moore tomorrow we don't want to finish this to fast.

 

[winnie]

hey, moving right along there ... looks good ... were you able to save the OEM rocker panel brackets that actually make the rocker panels rust, or did you buy new ones, or maybe yore not reusing/replacing them with the new rockers ... I can't seem to find them and may end up just reusing what I have or making them ...

 

[Oil leaks]

hey, moving right along there ... looks good ... were you able to save the OEM rocker panel brackets that actually make the rocker panels rust, or did you buy new ones, or maybe yore not reusing/replacing them with the new rockers ... I can't seem to find them and may end up just reusing what I have or making them ...

I don't know what brackets you are talking about,what I did was patch the tub floor that extends out to the rockers ,you can see,'it in the photo where the rocker is cut.

After the rockers ,quarter panels and patches I decided to build a roll cage for littler safety but most for looks since I don't do much off road. After reading on pirate 4x4 and find some prints for a tube bender so I decided to fab my own.

I use some scrap 2x2x1/4 tube ,air piston from HF and I had a friend cut me the arms to replace the wood ones I made for testing and the roll cage started taking shape.

Tomorrow it's another day thanks for looking.

 

[cruiserkreutz]

Cool tube bender. That cage turned out sweet, well done!!

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[rmckay1021]

Looking good. Keep it going!!!!!!!

 

[Leaping Deer]

Too funny. I ended up going to Josh's house to look at that one. I ended up buying the yellow one that he had. Went to pick mine up in early January I was telling my buddy about this one but by the time we talked to him about it it was already sold.

 

[Oil leaks]

Cool tube bender. That cage turned out sweet, well done!!

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Looking good. Keep it going!!!!!!!

Thanks

Too funny. I ended up going to Josh's house to look at that one. I ended up buying the yellow one that he had. Went to pick mine up in early January I was telling my buddy about this one but by the time we talked to him about it it was already sold.

The day I went to look I bought it and that was early January but he had two more fj 40 ,for plowing and off road very nice guy Josh's.

Here is more photos of the cage

I did this so I can take the rear of the cage out ,as the thread progresses you will see why I did it.

This is for the top rear tube.

Here I welded some tabs for lights and a tube to run the wires for lights and wiper motor.

I also made some tube doors with 3/4 electric pipe.

Tomorrow will be the frame.

 

[Leaping Deer]

The doors look good. I'm assuming you are from somewhere in New England?

 

[Oil leaks]

The doors look good. I'm assuming you are from somewhere in New England?

I'm in CT and I live 40 minutes from Josh's .

Frame had surface rust but the rear member was in bad shape.After looking at the cost of buying replacement parts to repair I decided to fab. In house out of 2x4 tube.

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Frame was sand blasted and I painted with two coats ofPOR 15 and a coat of POR top coat.

Here I made my on plate and instal a GM steering box

Tomorrow drive train .Bed time I have to get up early and face 12" of snow.

 

[apeterson]

Wow...you do nice work

 

[Oil leaks]

Wow...you do nice work

Thank you,
You did a nice job on yours.
The engine in the truck is the original F155 with 58000 miles,I was only able to drive it in to garage,had no power and miss firing real bad.Did a compression test and I had 120/125 on all the cylinders so was time to dig deeper.Pull the head out,valves and seats were in bad shape and#5 piston had broken rings and broken ring seats.I found a new piston and full set of rings,clean the cylinders,had the head rebuild with new valves check the crank bearings,new rear oil seal,new clutch and throw bearing,gaskets,paint and hope for the best as I'm not a mechanic.

New freeze plugs

Made a braket to instal power steer. pump on passenger side.

Come back tomorrow for more porn.

 

[Oil leaks]

Time for the axles.I purchased a set of 76 axles from a mud member with front disks,after sand blast and two coats of POR ,I did new calipers ,rotors,gaskets,marlin seals ,pinion seal and left the bearings for now,they didn't look to bed.

I made all new brake lines,install a proportion valve from summit and all new extended ss flex lines.

I clean up and clear coated the hubs,then I test fitted my new procomp alloys and guess what they clear the calipers with no extensions .

And here is my DOLLY checking my new 33x12.5 Mickey Thompson.

I got new four inch lift springs,new u bolts,new poly bushings and I purchased some huge shackles from a mud member and this is what looks like.

See you all tomorrow.

 

[vanisle3b42]

Nice job with the rolling chassis. Looks like new! Looking forward to the finished project.

 

[Oil leaks]

Nice job with the rolling chassis. Looks like new! Looking forward to the finished project.

Thanks.
I forgot to mention the new break and clutch masters,new chrome headers,new slave and summit steering rod with after market steering tilt colum.I installed two exaust manaf.gaskets to eliminate any leaks.

After the rust repairs on the tub I build a rotisserie to be easer to do body and paint work.

I used two engine jacks from HF, some scrap metal and 125.00 later was done.

The tub got sand blasted and I applied two coats of epoxi primer.

Now this is one of the mods I made,build a divider to separate the cab from the bed.

That panel looks factory but was home made with these pieces of 1x1/4 stock welded in place.

Here is another mod I made that I had to think twice about it.

 

[want2wheel]

Thats interesting. I like the workmanship.

 

[scrapdaddy]

Very talented work, I like it. With that short cab, are you going to fit in there?

 

[Oil leaks]

Thats interesting. I like the workmanship.

Thanks

Very talented work, I like it. With that short cab, are you going to fit in there?

Thanks for the kind words.I think this cab is the same as a 45 truck unless the doors are wider on the 45. I'm 5/8 so I fit ok and with tilt steering column and moving the steering wheel couple inches forward works out good for me but if I had to do it again I would move it back couple inches .
Something I don,t look forward to is body work but I did my best.

Doors had no rust that's the old glue on the photo.

Inside of the doors and bottom of tub treated with POR until the paint drains thru the seams.

All the channels were treated with POR and frame coating in case I missed a spot.

After another coat of epoxi primer and couple coats of filler primer I coated the bottom and inside the tub with UPROL bed liner.