Anyone Tried These Quarter Panels From Real Steel Cruisers? Do They Fit?

[dustinuhls]

Looking to replace my rear quarters. I found these at realstealcruiserparts.net. Just wondering how the fit and quality was if anyone has tried them before. My quarters are kinda rusty and I thought it would be easiest to replace the whole thing at once instead of cutting out bad metal to weld in patches.
Toyota Landcruiser FJ40 FJ45 Steel Body Parts

 

[dustinuhls]

Just realized this should probably be in "Paint and Body" section. Not sure how to move it...

 

[Sea Knight]

Looking to replace my rear quarters. I found these at realstealcruiserparts.net. Just wondering how the fit and quality was if anyone has tried them before. My quarters are kinda rusty and I thought it would be easiest to replace the whole thing at once instead of cutting out bad metal to weld in patches.
Toyota Landcruiser FJ40 FJ45 Steel Body Parts

I used Real Steel quarter patch panels. Fast service, perfect fit, high quality 16 gauge steel. Absolutely no complaints.

 

[todt]

After fabbing a few on my own I bought one and well worth the $$ I thought. I didnt cut out for the whole quarter but fit good and saved a ton of time.

 

[dustinuhls]

Those look really good Sea Knight. I guess I could buy the whole panels and cut out just the stuff I need. Never thought about that before. Today I asked a couple body shops here what they'd charge me to weld in the quarter panels and rear sill I'm buying to replace the rusted ones. One of them quoted me 50 hours of labor charge! I don't even want paint or body filler, I can do that myself. I just wanted them to cut the old ones off and weld in the new ones... Might just spend that money on a welder and do it myself.

 

[bikersmurf]

50 hours... In these parts, that'd be at least $3000. For a lot less money, you could buy a welder and hire a private tutor to hold your hand while you learned to weld while repairing your rig...

If you can hold a felt pen, you can learn to mug weld. With some practice, you can learn to weld well enough to fix a 40. Heck, I've welded 40 body pannels with a stick welder, it's not that difficult.

 

[Rusty]

If you can hold a felt pen, you can learn to mug weld.

Myself I prefer MIG welding, I've tried the MUG process and although it was a lot more fun I found the quality got worse as time went on, especially when my choice of filler material was beer.

 

[dustinuhls]

50 hours... In these parts, that'd be at least $3000. For a lot less money, you could buy a welder and hire a private tutor to hold your hand while you learned to weld while repairing your rig...

If you can hold a felt pen, you can learn to mug weld. With some practice, you can learn to weld well enough to fix a 40. Heck, I've welded 40 body pannels with a stick welder, it's not that difficult.

I'm pretty sure I'll just try to find a welder and do it myself. I can weld some. I grew up on a farm and we had to fix stuff all the time. Mainly used a stick welder and it didn't have to look pretty... just had to work. I've used a MIG before, just not very much. I know if I get it set right it's pretty easy to do. I think that's my best option.

 

[crowbarforge]

I replaced the rear quarters and the sill with the Real Steel parts. They worked just fine. Smaller repairs, holes, rust throughs where structural integrity is not an issue, I weld up with a 110vac wire welder from Hobart. It is, after all, an FJ.

 

[Fast Eddy]

Mostly on topic: I've never seen the real steel sill, but the one made by awl_teq is top notch.

 

[dustinuhls]

Mostly on topic: I've never seen the real steel sill, but the one made by awl_teq is top notch.

I've heard that from others on here. Do you know what he charges for them? I'm trying to keep the cost down.