You've clearly flogged it on this project! haha
HJ75 Complete body restoration (1 Viewer)
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You've clearly flogged it on this project! haha
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37,566 spot welds later……
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I forgot about this gas door housing and cut the old one off to reuse it. All sand blasted and ready to go. Probably all the diesel slightly dripping in here during fill ups is why this part isn’t completely trashed also. Some oily preservation!
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Ready to go. Sean sealer on all the welds and everything is painted/primed. Gas door housing is on.
Man if I knew you needed a new gas door sheet metal, I had a spare new OEM here at the shop. I would’ve sent it to you.
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The second quarter is tacked on. Working on the front and rear to pieces now.
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I was just about to ask you but this original one looked good, so I used it. Thanks!
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Not a bad sight.
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Rear top section prep.
Great thread, thank you, but pretty scary. I hope I never have to do body work on my rusty troopy. Where would you stop?
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Thanks! To answer your question: You don’t stop.
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All the panels are on now. I hung the doors just to make sure something wasn’t wacky. All looks good. I need to test fit the rear doors soon but the rotisserie is in my way right now.
Super amazing restoration like I said to @ofer bruhis this is not for the faint heart 
Before I forget on the top of the quarter panels there some rivnut for the Alucab to sit but since everything is open now you can definitely weld some solide ancrage to the roof braket to bolt to instead of rivnut ? I hate rivnut lol
Before I forget on the top of the quarter panels there some rivnut for the Alucab to sit but since everything is open now you can definitely weld some solide ancrage to the roof braket to bolt to instead of rivnut ? I hate rivnut lol
Looks great Kelly. Can’t wait to put it on the frame that is anxiously waiting for it.
so what you are saying that during these 2 years Toyota build 320000 cars…. Kelly!!!
Thanks Onur!!!
Seriously Kelly!
I couldn't be more impressed with your work.
So when it comes time to do mine it will be like nothing....LOL
I couldn't be more impressed with your work.
So when it comes time to do mine it will be like nothing....LOL
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Still here tonight at 8:30. Been chipping the double coating off the floor with an air hammer. Everything else I tried doesn’t work. Took a few hours sitting with headphones on. I’m going to try and wheel some of this final coating off before I leave.
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That’s all I can get done today. I’m just going to sand blast the whole floor tomorrow instead. These wheels aren’t working very well. Oh, and there is more rust too. Haha! Woohoo
Would dry ice be appropriate for assisting in removal?
In the rally car world when we are building a new shell, we buy some dry ice and apply it directly to the sound deadener...it weakens the coating, then you can just bang it with a hammer and clean up all the pieces with a shop vac.
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That’s good advice and thank you. This coating was a combo of some gummy orange stuff and then tan (color matched) liner rolled on top of the orange stuff. The dry ice technique might have worked, but it was the entire floor. Any wheel I used, just heated up the orange coating and turned it into a goo that just spread around. The liner was hard on top though, so when I chip at it, both coatings pop off. Now that it’s all off, I’m removing the rust pits and factory coating that’s on the metal. It was just too time consuming so I will sand blast in the morning. Thanks!
