Joe’s '77 FJ40 Dream Build

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They come with sliders. As you can see I fabbed brackets. If you have a 79+ i am told they will bolt to factory sliders fairly easily with just a drill. I did not have any seats, so i bought the adapters from procar.

The seats with no headrest are another model which is slightly cheaper (apprx. 230 each). Buy from Summit.
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Progress:

I did not know how i was going to hang parts. Then i saw this scaffold i forgot we had.
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My future father in law came down Sat and Sun to help out. He stripped the roll bar for me and I primered/sprayed them.


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Today we stripped is and sanded the fiberglass. Then we monstaliner ed the inside white.


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Now my dog and I are headed home from a long weekend of working on the truck.


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Wow great job gettin the whole family involved

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Yes she does. She and her mom ran the SG Komen 5K today and that gave me time to paint. She ran a smokin fast 21 minute time btw.

I had a few hiccups of course. I was spraying sealer and the steel beam fell off the scaffold and hit me in the neck. It stunned me for a second and I laid down a nasty run on the back corner. I had to strip it down and sand it all out to start over. Thats not easy when using an epoxy as a sealer!

Im happy with the paint job. At this point, i am just happy to see color and i can live with a few imperfections because the color is beautiful. As usual, i finish up late at night and give y'all terrible pictures. Also featured are my new quick hinges. I almost forgot to install these before i painted. This would have been quite difficult with fresh paint.
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That looks great! 21 minutes is smoking. A steel beam hits me in the head and something is getting broken much less a little run. I'm glad you fixed it. I think something like that would have made me mad every time I looked at it.
 
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I went down to check out a few things including how the paint was curing up. I was amazed at how it turned out. I am not even going to need to sand or polish.

I just placed an order for a few hundred stainless bolts from CCOT and a few odds and ends. when all this comes in Friday, I will start putting the truck together allong with my new fuel pump.

I am so excited about how it turned out. That reflection in the fender is what really got me.
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Last night I painted the rest of the truck. It is currently in about twenty five pieces drying.

Today we ran all the brake and clutch lines as well as installed the wiring harness and the entire pedal assembly. It was getting dark as we wrapped up. This time change is a problem, but the fiancé and I were pretty exhausted. You can probably tell from the photo all the progress that was made.

My bolts are not here yet from CCoT so I cant put the front clip together yet.
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I have the monstaliner, but lack the neccessary rollers to do finish the interior. The storm that hit new york is affecting the shipping of what I need. I feel for those guys as they are trying to get power back in their homes let alone try to meet a back log of orders. I did talk to them and they stated that they should ship out everything today.

I do have a couple of Shutz guns and with the rollers I can get every nook and cranny that I want. Nothing else is going into the interior until then. The bracket and pedals have to go on in order to install the Brake and clutch master cylinder. I can easily mask those off as I shoot liner with the Shutz gun. the interior will be lined like the underside of the tub. Any spots that dont get hit with liner have Three separate applications of Epoxy primer.

I did test fit all of the seats, however I pulled them out to install the steering wheel and will put them in after the liner.
 
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