body work

[hellbent40]

for the last month or so i have been doing body work
don't have a pic of what the door channels looked like before i started but it was filled with bondo an tape over it from the previous owner... i knew it when i bought it but it was alot of work to get them to were they are now... 30 hours of work and i welded in new steel to the rear sill and welded in some door channels that i had from a previous cruiser and patched a couple holes in the front floor pans... also painted the dash and glove door and ash try and instrument cluster...

and i bought some hippo liner which is a paint on bedliner when it was on sale at lordco and used one of the accounts from another forum for $40 bucks ...

first pic is where the boss let me stuff my cruiser in the shop at work... good thing it allowed it to dry out a bit.. since its been tarped for more than a year...

then pics of the hippo liner and door channels (used that rocker guard on the rockers and door channels.. )
then pics of the dash...

i already put the gas tank back in before i took photos it is bedliner under that..

 

[hellbent40]

more pics... sorry about the dust...
front floor pans i used that rattle can undercoating on it... will see how well it holds up...

now its on to cutting up the rear quarter panels... since i installed 60 springs in the rear... chop chop ...

 

[hellbent40]

i installed the gas tank but it is hippo lined under that...

anyone running flipped springs in the front ... looking for a pic... my wheel base is around 94 right now and thinking of punching out the main leaf and flipping the springs in the front.... should put me around 98 or so.....

 

[Rigpig]

Lookin' good, amazing how much time those projects eat up! I'm running 60 rears on that 4runner, flipped and re-drilled approx 1.5 inches forward. Not sure if the pics in that thread will help you, but you're welcome to have a look/beer when I'm back next week.
Cheers!

 

[Toshi38]

Looks great! I'm going to be tackling some body work this summer... looking to paint inside/outside of my cruiser... and get the hardtop on...

Yours is looking really good whats next?

 

[hellbent40]

next is putting the seats in and roll bar back in...
then a new tailgate and rear bumper and spare tire carrier (got it back from the powder coater a couple weeks ago... )

then frame tie ins for the roll bar and sliders that i have cut up just need to weld them together...

and somewhere in there i am making a set of aluminum half doors...

list goes on but it is under ten now....

 

[slowandsteady BJ]

Very nice. I can't wait to go wheelin with you. Say hi to Laura and Caleb!