Been getting some work done, although not a lot of good pics to show for it. Just one of those things where you get in the zone and don't really think of breaking out the camera.
First pic was taken last Tuesday, pic of the truck the crate and body I had just loaded it into...it's off! So, nothing real special.
Next few pics were taken today, took the day to get some work done. The one pic is of an 81 FJ40 I had bought about the same time I bought the troopy with the intention of parting out. Along with several other parts I intended on using one of them was the front cowl. My initial plan was to cut the troopy and the 40 at the factory welds at the A pillar and across the floor. Swap the entire fron cowl section for a LHD conversion. Some things have changes, so obviously that is not going to happen. My neighbor wants to buy it also so I am will be using some parts off the 81 and some off the 79 lv parts rig. The parts I am using off the 79 are used to keep the 81 running and functional. One of the parts I am swapping out from the 81 FJ40 is the front troopy axle and the rear 3rd member.
So that was mostly todays job. I started the day by swapping out the entire front axle. Reason for this is that essentially the axles are the same, except for the vented backing plate on the troopy. It seemed easier to swap the axles vs disassembling the 3rd member and having to take apart the brakes, spindels and birfields. The 81 FJ40 axle had never been out, so it took a fair amount of massaging to make that happen. I had a buddy of mine helping me today, he was a huge help when it came to massaging some of these parts out. After a couple hours, we got that front troopy axle in the 81 and the 81 axle out. Then it was on to rear axle.
I've never taken apart a 3rd member before, but I had spoke to Poser prior to doing this and he assured me that it was within my skill set. It took a couple hours, and I couple phone calls to Poser while it was happening, but it went pretty good. Thanks Steve, sorry to bother you several times today!!
So, I still have the orginal troopy rear axle, with the 81 FJ40 3rd member.
Had about an extra hour this evening and I wanted to get that 2H motor off the pallet and onto some sort of stand. I have no intention of tearing it apart, but would like to give it the jiffy tune up, so it needed to be some what mobile so I could move it easly and take a few parts off. You can see a few pics I took of the stand I made, took about an hour to cut and weld up. I had a few used lawn mower tires laying around, so used those, rolls extremely well. This will allow me to take the tranny isolation mount off to blast and paint. Pressure wash and hose down with laquer thinner easily. Pull a few parts off to blast or polish, also give the whole thing the basic PPG overhaul.
Matt
good start already... took me a year to get that far 
