Another 85 fj60 Blue #2??

[snowboardonsnow]

Cool thanks, probably just cheaper to buy another one and get the inserts instead of tracking some inserts down haha. Nice, I am excited for my wife to stop bitching about getting the the truck lol

 

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I understand.. These are aluminum nuts. I don't know if this gun is strong enough to crimp the steel ones that you can get. I was pretty impressed that these hold as good as they do.

 

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Paint booth to be

Not much accomplished today.. Got my winch plate finalized with holes etc...

Went shopping for supplies to start the assembly on my makeshift paint booth.

I painted the old cruiser in a buddies shop across town.. He's no longer there so.. I'm making my shop work this go around.

I have plenty of lighting in mine, if not I have 3-1000 watt light plants waiting to be used. Also, I have an upper filter fan for help with removing dust etc.. out of the air.

Gonna set up an air moving system.. fresh filtered air into the shop through box fans and exiting with a filtered box fan as well. Cover everything on the walls and shelves with thin painters plastic. The floor will get reinforced visqueen. (because I have a roll previously used from another project, it's free and strong.)

Here's some pics of the parts..

Will post up more pics when I get closer to laying down the primer and paint.

Still need more sanding of course.

J

 

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Sanded a little this afternoon, laid down a little filler and received a few items from Walcott CB.. Also, got my new Jancy Slugger saw... But that's for the Tool and Fab section.. HA!

J

 

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All filler is done..

FINALLY got all the body filler down and sanded out. Had one last area on the passenger side quarter that needed a little attention.

I have a long weekend of fine sanding. Hope to get primer on by middle of next week.

J

 

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Got the Flowmaster on this morning.. Cut the old cat and OEM muffler off.

Sounds great. I need to extend the pipe all the way out the back. I'll get to that later..

On to sanding, touching up the area by the windshield I scuffed while making repairs to the windshield pinch weld.. I'll sand this down and get painted today..

J

 

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Windshield area was an easy fix... Looks much better now.

Sanded down the hood and fenders with 220 and 320 grit. Hope to get this completely sanded out by tomorrow. Really want to have this in primer next week.

J

 

[Finnyfam60]

A+ work as usually! Great work brother man!

 

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WagonGear Antenna Mount

Got my WagonGear antenna mount from KR today. He sure has some neat stuff.. I WANT IT ALL!.. Thanks again Kevin.

I ordered all the Firestik items as well from Walcott CB. Missing a couple items.

J

 

[Finnyfam60]

Nice trailer build teaser!!!

 

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HA! Didn't plan that but, I'll get that build going in the Trailer Section soon.

J

 

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Smoking and

Decided not to go the powder coat route on my door handles and locks due to the coater wanting too much money IMO.. So, I figure I can paint a lot of door handles, locks, etc.. for $180.00. OUCH!

So I prepped, primed and painted them along with other items..

Had the day to myself with Charlie.. Body working and smoking pork shoulder (see the campfire cuisine section)... (Charlie is like a lot of you guys wanting to know when the cruiser is GONNA BE READY!) He hops up in it and gives me the look.... as my wife calls it...HA!

Got quite a bit done.. Pics to come.

Here's some to get started on the Sunday progress..

J

 

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Roof rack brackets

Got the roof rack brackets primed and painted and............

Enjoyed a few brews between primer, flipping pork shoulder, and painting the brackets satin black.

Wish you guys were here....

J

 

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Bumpers in primer

Here's a couple poser shots for my man Finny... Time to go enjoy a few beers and enjoy some pulled pork sandwiches..

Enjoy guys..

J

 

[Finnyfam60]

Very nice. Pork shoulder, beers, and bumpers... Sweet!!!

FYI, my powder guy charges like $5/piece for the door handles and such if you wanna send your stuff in a flat rate out here once they fade/chip... I would even pull mine and pile them all together to justify driving out to him...

 

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Very nice. Pork shoulder, beers, and bumpers... Sweet!!!

FYI, my powder guy charges like $5/piece for the door handles and such if you wanna send your stuff in a flat rate out here once they fade/chip... I would even pull mine and pile them all together to justify driving out to him...

Thanks Finny.. I may take you up on that.. The guy I use to use closed down and the other guy is price gouging now... I may send my spare set out to you if these start getting too bad.

My others held up nicely for over a year though.

J

 

[snowboardonsnow]

Ready? Psh looks ready enough for him Haha. My eye caught that trailer hitch instantly, make sure you let us know on here when you start that.

 

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Snow, Charlie is always ready to go.. He jumped in the sheriffs truck when they came to do the Vin# check for the out of state title transfer... ...

Yeah I'll let everyone know when the trailer build starts. I got metal showing up this coming week. Need to order springs and axle etc...
It'll be a nice little camping trailer with a few bells and whistles.

Also, I posted this in the paint section but, just in case people aren't looking there.. I got my Monstaliner kit in for coating the lower body panels..

J

 

[pistonpete]

Again, nice work.. Cant wait to see her finished, she gonna look good !!

 

[Wyoming]

You're not coating the outside of your truck with bedliner where people can see it? Noooooooo! You think it is going to look good, but Nooooooooooo!

Just my opinion.

You're an animal. That work would take me two summers to do. Very nice work.