M1A1cruiser
SILVER Star
I'll keep this brief as I'm in the "I don't know what I don't know" stage of this Cruiser.
- Fourth Cruiser
- Second 40
- Second build thread ('60 in signature line)
- First diesel
I'll be taking my own sweet time on this build, and it will be a bearing by bearing, bolt by bolt effort - should I call it a "frame off", not quite sure I'm going there, but generally a "bit at a time frame off". There will be some mods but nothing like the V8/H55/ARBs that I did on the '60. Maybe add heat/cool to the S. American-spec BJ, maybe a bumper, maybe power steering.... we'll just see, but this will mostly be restoration, which will be a *process*.
She (we haven't decided on a name yet) looks in pretty good shape. Yeah, the front floor pans need some metal, door sills probably will be "meh" once I get through the red candy coating, the rain gutter is a memory of what metal used to be, but the tub is generally solid, there's no rot on the frame, glass is good, transfer case and hubs engage as they should and she runs and drives (yeah, the B needs injectors, the brakes are sh*t, who knows if it's charging or cooling) so that's all I need right now.
The PO (idk how many there were yet...) did a "good" (if screwing up the color, and trying to hide as many flaws as possible under paint was the goal) job shellacking the red paint on - even got inside the doors, so they were certainly determined to turn this one red. I'll be reverting back to the 857 'medium blue' that it's supposed to be, and restoring the knobs and gauges to what they're supposed to be and getting the B engine running how it's supposed to be (within my capability) - I understand that B parts are getting kinda scarce (yup, I've reviewed a dozen threads here and searched elsewhere...) so I'll try to get by without a full rebuild, and will be prepared to swap in something else down the road, but that's waaaay down the road (fingers crossed!).
Did I say I'd keep this short?!? I guess that's enough for now. I'll post up slow progress (and will try to use the search exhaustively before asking the same question about....x, y, z that's been asked a dozen times). It feels good to be back in the community - and the 40-series, and the diesel.
Happy wrenching/wheeling,
Trav.-
- Fourth Cruiser
- Second 40
- Second build thread ('60 in signature line)
- First diesel
I'll be taking my own sweet time on this build, and it will be a bearing by bearing, bolt by bolt effort - should I call it a "frame off", not quite sure I'm going there, but generally a "bit at a time frame off". There will be some mods but nothing like the V8/H55/ARBs that I did on the '60. Maybe add heat/cool to the S. American-spec BJ, maybe a bumper, maybe power steering.... we'll just see, but this will mostly be restoration, which will be a *process*.
She (we haven't decided on a name yet) looks in pretty good shape. Yeah, the front floor pans need some metal, door sills probably will be "meh" once I get through the red candy coating, the rain gutter is a memory of what metal used to be, but the tub is generally solid, there's no rot on the frame, glass is good, transfer case and hubs engage as they should and she runs and drives (yeah, the B needs injectors, the brakes are sh*t, who knows if it's charging or cooling) so that's all I need right now.
The PO (idk how many there were yet...) did a "good" (if screwing up the color, and trying to hide as many flaws as possible under paint was the goal) job shellacking the red paint on - even got inside the doors, so they were certainly determined to turn this one red. I'll be reverting back to the 857 'medium blue' that it's supposed to be, and restoring the knobs and gauges to what they're supposed to be and getting the B engine running how it's supposed to be (within my capability) - I understand that B parts are getting kinda scarce (yup, I've reviewed a dozen threads here and searched elsewhere...) so I'll try to get by without a full rebuild, and will be prepared to swap in something else down the road, but that's waaaay down the road (fingers crossed!).
Did I say I'd keep this short?!? I guess that's enough for now. I'll post up slow progress (and will try to use the search exhaustively before asking the same question about....x, y, z that's been asked a dozen times). It feels good to be back in the community - and the 40-series, and the diesel.
Happy wrenching/wheeling,
Trav.-