Builds Fj40+hj60 = hj46

[paulwolf350]

I would wrap around the front and tie it back to the chassis with pipe, lot of stress on that flat steel when your winching

 

[serenity]

I would wrap around the front and tie it back to the chassis with pipe, lot of stress on that flat steel when your winching

Yeah I'll definitely be tubing it. Dads an engineer and he is pretty happy with the design, he just wants a narrow piece of plate welded onto the top of the leading edge to give it support. I'll finish it all off minus tubing this weekend. The body and a few other things are getting sandblasted right now.

Next time I'm in rocky Paul I'll grab that winch off you, I wanna put one in the 80 as well.

 

[serenity]

Well its been too hot to do much work over summer, but I have been getting stuck into it in the last 2 weeks.

Body is getting pulled apart, and I will be sending the floor panels off to a local sheet metal fabricator to get copied. Any other rusty spots I will just patch. Also finished rebuilding the brake calipers and I finally got the engine out so it can be cleaned up, that sucker is heavy!

 

[serenity]

Made some more progress on the body work in between modding my new FJ and building a firewall for a mates old Landrover. I ended up replacing almost every piece of sheet metal in the tub except for the the outer body panels which where too hard to replicate.

 

[cult45]

Wicked build mate. Where in QLD are you?

 

[serenity]

Wicked build mate. Where in QLD are you?

Up in Gladstone and wishing this rain would piss off so I could get some more work done.

 

[cult45]

Yeah I reckon. I was in Mackay last thursday due to fly back that night when the effing rain shut the airport down - had to drive through the night to get back to Bris. I've noticed if you drive the Bruce regularly you just about need a LandCruiser to get through.