Glad you had a good seat belt. Even a slow tip over can really mess you up.
Pics of the body damage?
Pics of the body damage?
'74 FJ40 - Re-Resurrection of the Grey Burro
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New muffler looks great. Three point belts and a roll cage are planned for Herman when I pull the top off next summer. Glad your alright.
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Thanks guys.
Yeah, the Factory Roll bar held up impressively well. It was the only thing that kept it from rolling over completely. Regardless, i think a full cage might be in order after all.
Here are a few pictures of the damage. Haven't managed to clean everything up yet, damn Transmission Fluid everywhere.
Passenger Fender is crushed pretty good. I'm very much amazed at how well the paint has stayed on, though. Try doing that with a modern car!
This is by far the worst damage. It landed on the windshield frame/a-pillar, pushing it back and in the cab a bit. You can see the huge gap between the firewall portion and the fender side. The front is completely straight.
Close up. Where the rear tub meets the fire-wall part of the tub, you can see the fold in the sheet metal and the vertical bar pushed back a bit.
Another angle, showing the gap a bit better.
http://i.imgur.com/TTXMKFo.jpg
This is, pretty much, the only major damage to the rear tub. It landed on a rock there. The rest of the body was saved by the plastic fender flares, surprisingly enough!
Sideways view. The hood, since it's attached near the windscreen, got pulled back as well, hence why it is miss-aligned. Hopefully, once the firewall/A-pillar section is straightened out, the hood will sit flush again.
At least the other side still looks pretty good
I've started looking into parts and shops, since i'm not a good at sheet-metal work.
Yeah, the Factory Roll bar held up impressively well. It was the only thing that kept it from rolling over completely. Regardless, i think a full cage might be in order after all.
Here are a few pictures of the damage. Haven't managed to clean everything up yet, damn Transmission Fluid everywhere.
Passenger Fender is crushed pretty good. I'm very much amazed at how well the paint has stayed on, though. Try doing that with a modern car!
This is by far the worst damage. It landed on the windshield frame/a-pillar, pushing it back and in the cab a bit. You can see the huge gap between the firewall portion and the fender side. The front is completely straight.
Close up. Where the rear tub meets the fire-wall part of the tub, you can see the fold in the sheet metal and the vertical bar pushed back a bit.
Another angle, showing the gap a bit better.
http://i.imgur.com/TTXMKFo.jpg
This is, pretty much, the only major damage to the rear tub. It landed on a rock there. The rest of the body was saved by the plastic fender flares, surprisingly enough!
Sideways view. The hood, since it's attached near the windscreen, got pulled back as well, hence why it is miss-aligned. Hopefully, once the firewall/A-pillar section is straightened out, the hood will sit flush again.
At least the other side still looks pretty good
I've started looking into parts and shops, since i'm not a good at sheet-metal work.
Jakob came by the shop on Friday with the wounded-but-far-from-dead 40 to get the recovery started. Straightening this tub is going to be a challenge. The vertical part of the cowl [below the windshield] is partially separated from the horizontal section of the cowl [behind the hood] which is in turn partially separated from the vertical section of the cowl where the kick vent is. I will be working on a strategy to bring those core sections of the tub back together over the next week or two.
In the meantime, I dug a very special windshield frame out of the back of the shop for this project. It comes with a story.
I originally sold the frame TWENTY THREE years ago to what you might call my very first customer. He was knocking on my door before the shop was officially open, and I had to send him away with a flyer for the grand opening, as I did not have a license yet. His name was [and is] JB, and we are still friends today. He had flopped his 71 end over end; hence the need for the frame.
Fast forward three years, and we were wheeling IN THE PANAMINTS with a third friend named Ken, who was a HUGE supporter of Mark's Off Road back in the early days. So much so that he had had a vinyl decal cut for his windshield frame even before I owned one myself! Well, JB was following Ken a little too close on the trail, and as sometimes happens, a rock came up from Ken's tire and took out JB's windshield. Ken felt really bad, so when we got back to town, he bought a new windshield glass from me for his rig and gave JB his old one.
JB eventually decided to sell this rig, as he felt his growing family needed a 40 he could put a hardtop on, and his roll-tested rig was no longer a worthy candidate. The young man who bought his 40 saw things differently, and stripped the truck down for a resto. About a year later, I bought the pile of parts, quickly selling off most of the rig, save the karma windshield, which has sat patiently on the shelf waiting for the 'right' new home.
Now it has one…again!
In the meantime, I dug a very special windshield frame out of the back of the shop for this project. It comes with a story.
I originally sold the frame TWENTY THREE years ago to what you might call my very first customer. He was knocking on my door before the shop was officially open, and I had to send him away with a flyer for the grand opening, as I did not have a license yet. His name was [and is] JB, and we are still friends today. He had flopped his 71 end over end; hence the need for the frame.
Fast forward three years, and we were wheeling IN THE PANAMINTS with a third friend named Ken, who was a HUGE supporter of Mark's Off Road back in the early days. So much so that he had had a vinyl decal cut for his windshield frame even before I owned one myself! Well, JB was following Ken a little too close on the trail, and as sometimes happens, a rock came up from Ken's tire and took out JB's windshield. Ken felt really bad, so when we got back to town, he bought a new windshield glass from me for his rig and gave JB his old one.
JB eventually decided to sell this rig, as he felt his growing family needed a 40 he could put a hardtop on, and his roll-tested rig was no longer a worthy candidate. The young man who bought his 40 saw things differently, and stripped the truck down for a resto. About a year later, I bought the pile of parts, quickly selling off most of the rig, save the karma windshield, which has sat patiently on the shelf waiting for the 'right' new home.
Now it has one…again!
Jakob,
You'll need to keep that glass!
Cool story Mark.
You'll need to keep that glass!
Cool story Mark.
