Awesome to see it coming along...
Custom HZJ79 from parts, built in the US! (7 Viewers)
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Great build
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Did you find a solution for the rear protection yet?
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Did you find a solution for the rear protection yet?
The photos and updates are appreciated. Great idea to bedline the undercarriage. I'd be tempted to do the same for the rocker panels and wheel wells.
Are they stripping the Saudi paint and starting over? Wow if they are.
Wow either way.
Wow either way.
Ooh just got some.
Blasting the dirt from inside my frame just before sending it to be sandblasted, hot dip galvanized, and powder coated. Note sliders and rear quarter panel protection. Bumper design still in progress. That is my cab too.
Underside of cab treated with bedliner for ultimate corrosion resistance.
wow how many old girls are in the back ground photos
So, if the trucks are built in Japan, I'm assuming they are, and I would think on the same paint line, why would the paint be different for trucks heading to the Middle East than that on the trucks heading to the rest of the world? Do we know the paint is different for a fact or is it just an "urban Legend"? Is the Saudi paint a base coat clear coat paint or single stage? If a base coat clear coat then I can't see where the paint would be soft, but then again I am no paint guru.
A softer topcoat wil have less problems with the sandblasting effect of the dessert. That might be a reason.
I once worked on a 60 that went on a dessert trip for 3 months, there was no gloss left at all.
I once worked on a 60 that went on a dessert trip for 3 months, there was no gloss left at all.
Interesting. Now I may have to consider a new paint job? At least it will be just a scuff and paint with the new, straight body. I too am planning on lining my bed and doing the underneath in bed liner. Going with Raptor as I have had good luck with it in the past.
It depends on the type of paint they used. You can test somewhere on the underside or the tankfiller door if it give's a reaction to the paint you want to use.
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if they have to do major sanding prep work to the paint i think i would consider leaving the factory paint and live with the scratching. that paint is used in the worst environments imaginable and toyota must know what they are doing. no way can the new paint be as well bonded as factory.
We were not shown the paint lines during our visit to the Yoshiwara plant at TAB this past April. Much of the paint line stuff is very proprietary and is really never shown to the general public.
From my recollection there were three different paint line buildings: LX570's, 7X series/200 series, and the buses manufactured at Yoshiwara. The LX's go through a completely different build process than the rest of the LC derivative vehicles. This I know for a fact because the factory official told us, and showed us the final product. IIRC, the LX570's go through about x100 more QA checks at the end of the line as opposed to the regular 7x series and 200 series LC's do, but they do all go through the same building at the end--we saw them coming out one after another.
Interestingly, the bodies are constructed and then fitted to the chassis, then taken back apart, go through the paint/undercoating process and then meet back up with the exact chassis it was mated to before going into the painting process. This was very impressive in terms of the logistical coordination needed to make this happen. The doors, bodies are dropped down at the exact time from a line that runs above ten feet above the rolling chassis on the final assembly line. They are brought down by robotic arms and mated to the chassis via hand. Then interiors are brought through the side door openings and the through the front windshield sections, and then, further down the line, the correct paint matched doors previously associated with the body and chassis are brought down by robotic elevator and attached to the bodies.
Toyota will probably never divulge the paint process since one of the main marketing and selling distinctions between different manufacturers is their painting processes. From what we were told, it is very complex and variegated.
Hope this helps.
Jeremiah and his crew do amazing work. I've seen John's pickup in person, and it's incredible!! You'll be truly pleased with this when they get done working their magic on it!
I'm looking for more pics - Let's see that frame and driveline!!
I'm looking for more pics - Let's see that frame and driveline!!
Updates?
Are you planning on lining the insides and inners of your fenders and under your box too for ultimate rust protection.
I am thinking how I will rust proof a potential 75 I am looking at.
Are you planning on lining the insides and inners of your fenders and under your box too for ultimate rust protection.
I am thinking how I will rust proof a potential 75 I am looking at.
