HJ47 12HT changed plan to FJ62 12HT (2 Viewers)

[koxfarm]

Finally in the finish line.. and let the HJ61 ground-up LEGO begin

 

[koxfarm]

Axles added, washed thoroughly inside with steam pressure cleaner. cv hub rebuilt, blasted and baked on painted, Marlin Crawler inner seals, new studs, TG dust seal instead of the old felt rings and moly moly moly

 

[koxfarm]

Chassis from another angle

 

[koxfarm]

Here come the body

 

[koxfarm]

After all, I don’t buy in any damper of any young girl, I keep stickin’ to Old Man Emu and Triple 5 when it comes to the front stability..and recommending highly
Ah yeah, and it looked like the first pic this morning. Its afternoon and I can excuse my

 

[Indestructible 47]

Looks really good mate. What brakes did you go? I went all out on my old 40 with high preformance dba rotors and boy did that truck stop. Keep it up.

 

[koxfarm]

I was thinking about those dba’s but with the lack of upgraded rotors available I didn’t see the benefit for spending the extra $ on rotors. The brake mprovement is a complex one, you need a bigger caliper (larger or more pistons) then a bigger or more sophisticated disc and finally a larger main cylinder to pump sufficient amount of fluis matching those pistons. In my humble opinion by only putting in more expensive and sophisticated discs doesn’t make no braking force improvement.
One of my frienfs gave me a pair of genuine nos rotors and so Ijust had to rebuild my original calipers.
There is plenty of stopping force in the original system.
If I was to improve anything I would converted the RR drums, but not at this stage. I do however run genuine brake pads in the front as one thing I hate is a squeaking brake

 

[koxfarm]

Mating the gearbox and the 12HT and lift in as one .. taken me half a day to prep the entire act of two secnds .. done.

 

[koxfarm]

More porn

 

[2fpower]

Just amazing detail to your work.

 

[koxfarm]

The bottom of the floor is treated. First a 4500psi steam cleaner that brought back original clean steel and two coats of the stone guard coating. This is the first time I am using gray instead of black and I guess its still all right.

 

[koxfarm]

Rolling chassis. Exhaust is installed. It is a 3” all the way mandrel bent stainless steel one from Outback Exhaust and fits like a glove. Initially I didn’t like their little welded logo at the tail pipe and thought that will cut that off, but yesterday I said these guys deserve to be showed off so I kept their logo on the exhaust.

 

[koxfarm]

thats what its going to look soon

 

[koxfarm]

Prepping the body for mating the frame. Heatshields, fuel tank, all hoses new, new clips at the front w/seal and the at the sound deadener. Diesel vacuum tank cleaned painted and pipes installed.
P/s reservoir cleaned inside out, and installed. Wiper hoses cleaned inside out and installed. The good thing abot the 60’ is these parts not need to be replaced like at the 40’s. 30years seems like they are in perfect condition. Just a thorough clean and almost everything is good to go back. Same anout the washer and coolant bottles.

 

[ceylonfj40nut]

Can you pls take a close up of where you placed lift points to raise body on lift? I need to do same with frame swap. Much appreciated.

Phenom work as always. Off the charts!!

 

[koxfarm]

Can you pls take a close up of where you placed lift points to raise body on lift? I need to do same with frame swap. Much appreciated.

Phenom work as always. Off the charts!!

With pleasure. I will post the photos asap tomorrow. Thanks,
Your comment is appreciated .

 

[koxfarm]

Lifting point reference for @ceylonfj40nut

 

[koxfarm]

Firewall’s A/C holes cutting in stages..
Large hole 36mm small hole 1in diameter.

 

[koxfarm]

Beautiful Chaos

 

[koxfarm]

New double diaphragm booster from CotyRacer and new Aisin master cylinders (brake and clutch).