Earl - my HJ47 Project

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doofus said:
Hey SOOT, great work on the rust repairs. I'm in Canberra and this is motivating me to get my arse into gear with my own repairs. Great read. Let me know if you ever need some local help.
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Sweet, thanks doofus. Your the closest member on mud to me I know of so far. Your not to far away at all, bout 2 hours. Do you have a thread going that I can have a look at? I'm gunna search for your thread right now.

I enjoy reading other fellow mudders threads, give me good inspiration to keep cracking on with my build. I really should update this thread, I have done some more work to my 47 and should post it up before I forget. Not a great deal really compared to other mud builds in the 45 section but still heading in the right direction.

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Ordered new bearings and seals for the PTO winch and PTO gearbox at my local bearing and seal shop, they showed up this week so when I get some spare time between completely rebuilding my verandah and other stuff I will blast the PTO winch, do some mods and put it back together.

In the mean time I have been chasing some 1mm sheet so I can redo the rear cab floor/corner section I cut out. I wasn't having much luck as every supplier wanted to sell me 0.9mm sheet but I would prefer to put 1mm back in. Finally found some down in Melbourne so it should be here in a week or so and the body work will progress again.

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I pulled the disc brake front end out of the 47 a while back and got sick of looking at it every time i went out to the farm so I whipped myself up a small gantry to do all the heavy lifting and a stand on wheels so when the time comes to rebuild it will be a bit easier.

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The roof, rear upper cab and hood have been stripped down and just need a clean up with the sand blaster to remove the last of the paint in a few places. The front bib is completely paint free. I sprayed the roof, hood and bib with WD-40 and wrapped them up until I'm ready to spray some epoxy she. The temps here get a bit warmer. I kept the rear upper cab the windscreen panel on the cab so I can attempt to fix the warp in my left side door.


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SOOT, looking real good. Your body work is super. Nice to have a lift for things like axles and such. Have a question on the dash, the far right cutout area what goes in there the RPM gauge or ? Mine is blank.
Keep up the work and photos.
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Thanks, that gantry rail has been awesome so far, knocked it up in few hours. Did all the cutting and drilling when I got home from work one afternoon, then did the welding after dinner. I was still going at midnight due to the welder fan kicking the bucket and had to let it cool down between welds until I got sick of that and hung the welder up in front of a pedestal fan. Burnt more then a third of a box of 3.2mm rods on it. She sure is solid!

Yeah mate that is the hole for the tachometer (RPM gauge). I don't know what year they started sticking them in or if Toyota even put them into the FJ models? Someone on here would know.


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CycloSteve said:
SOOT, man that is looking great. I need to build a tin-shed with a gantry on my upper property just for Land Cruiser work and storage.

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Steve
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Yeah I told my wife that the shed was for Land Cruiser work, ha, yeah like that worked! it's the only under cover car park we have so our car gets parked in there every night unless I am doing heaps to the cruiser and have my crap everywhere then it might stay out.

That gantry has been a great creation, it's plenty wide and high enough to lift out a engine and work in the engine bay without having to work around the columns and if someone's truck has a huge lift I can just put more packing under the columns to jack it higher to do the job.

Cheers Soot

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Love your gantry ,that maker life easy. As for the sheet metal you were looking for, most of the cruiser panels is 1.2 mm. I use 1.2 zink sheet. But if its in a high rust area like the rear 1/4 panels then i use 309 or 316 stainless, A little harder to work and welds great to mildsteel. I have been using it for 10 years and no probs with cracking.
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Aussie 25 said:
Love your gantry ,that maker life easy. As for the sheet metal you were looking for, most of the cruiser panels is 1.2 mm. I use 1.2 zink sheet. But if its in a high rust area like the rear 1/4 panels then i use 309 or 316 stainless, A little harder to work and welds great to mildsteel. I have been using it for 10 years and no probs with cracking.
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Hey there Aussie 25, yeah most here say 1.2mm sheet. I think Toyota must have changed the later models to 1mm as my 1983 47 has 1mm in every panel I have had to cut rust out of, so I chased down a sheet of cold rolled 1mm way down in Melbourne.

Have thought of stainless, good to hear there is not much problems with cracking, I was thinking it would probably crack on the edge of the welds due to it being a potential weak spot and it work hardening from vibrations. Any special way you weld it? Such as stress releaving or using heat? Or just weld and away you go?

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For above, only the diesels came with the tacho, from September - ish 1982 onwards.
 
hey soot,

awesome build man. hows it going? theres been no recent posts and ive just read this whole thing through in about 20min.
i also have an hj47 and this has inspired me to try and sort out the rot in my foot wells as well as you have.

awesome build and hope you post more on it.
 
Vossie said:
hey soot,

awesome build man. hows it going? theres been no recent posts and ive just read this whole thing through in about 20min.
i also have an hj47 and this has inspired me to try and sort out the rot in my foot wells as well as you have.

awesome build and hope you post more on it.
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G'day Vossie,

Thanks for your comments.

My HJ47 project has been pushed to the back of my things to do list at the moment. My wife is having our second baby in November and I'm desperately trying to finish a heap of home renovations before the baby comes. So there has not been to much time for the cruiser lately and I don't have much to report :bang:

In the next few weeks the renovations will be finished and I will hopefully have more time for the old 47. :wrench:

The weather here is starting to warm up and my main focus will be getting the body work done. So keep an eye out, I will update when I start to progress again.

Good luck with your foot well rot repairs.

:cheers: Soot
 
Well congrats on the expected little one.
Remember one thing, riding in a cruiser is the best way for a kid to grow up.
 
Soot you don't muck around when you do a rebuild. When I started reading this thread tonight I thought the hj47 looked very clean sitting in the paddock and after 8 pages I'm glad you went with the 47 build as it looken great.

Congrats on the expected edition to the family.
 
Vossie said:
Well congrats on the expected little one.
Remember one thing, riding in a cruiser is the best way for a kid to grow up.
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Thanks Vossie, exciting times. I am looking forward to taking our little girl who is two years old in January for a drive into the bush to do some camping and fishing once the 47 is finished. Something she will remember forever.

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ozcrusier said:
Soot you don't muck around when you do a rebuild. When I started reading this thread tonight I thought the hj47 looked very clean sitting in the paddock and after 8 pages I'm glad you went with the 47 build as it looken great.

Congrats on the expected edition to the family.
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Thanks ozcruiser, the old 47 had a few rough spots, dents and warped steel that is hard to see in pictures, you know, all those little dents these old truck get over time. Probably could have just done what needed to be done to get it going but where is the fun in that! At least it will last a while longer now. I'm glad I have pulled it down, it's a great experience and will be worth the time in the end.

The new bub is due in 6 short weeks this Friday. Man it's going fast. I best get back into these Reno's, otherwise they will never be finished!

Cheers
Soot

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