PabloCruise
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Red sky at morning - sailors take warning...Floor pans looks factory. Love da Sky sunset. This is Sunrise
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Lake City Limo (2 Viewers)
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PabloCruise
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bobm
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ORNCH
PabloCruise
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Winter wonderland!
bobm
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! Now 2 inches of Rain on Christmas 
! Now 2 inches of Rain on Christmas 
Sounds like us...blah.2
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- #147
Alright. Back on the Limo this Christmas Eve.
I dug into the passenger side. All the metal was heavily treated and the patch panels primed and the strip down the side of the seat got one nice patch.
Then I started digging into the passenger floor mount and found it a bit worse than I thought. Not bad enough for a full floor pan but worse than my Pig where I only needed a bit of plate steel.
I headed back to the graveyard and holy hell. The exact piece I needed was staring right back at me. This parts pig has given so much to so many. Truly remarkable it was there and solid to boot.
I loaded up all my cordless saws and headed back. We have 30* weather with a 15-20 mph wind today and it was freaking cold but I got it
I dug into the passenger side. All the metal was heavily treated and the patch panels primed and the strip down the side of the seat got one nice patch.
Then I started digging into the passenger floor mount and found it a bit worse than I thought. Not bad enough for a full floor pan but worse than my Pig where I only needed a bit of plate steel.
I headed back to the graveyard and holy hell. The exact piece I needed was staring right back at me. This parts pig has given so much to so many. Truly remarkable it was there and solid to boot.
I loaded up all my cordless saws and headed back. We have 30* weather with a 15-20 mph wind today and it was freaking cold but I got it
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- #148
After I was happy with the fit I got it all attached. Holes plugged with JB weld and then I gave it a good cleaning before adding the first coat of POR15. I’ll have to wait till tomorrow for the second coat.
After this stuff cures I’ll add some layers of Lizard Skin and this round of “body work” will be done and I can start on striping and cleaning suspension and axles during the next phase. Pretty pumped how it’s working out.
After this stuff cures I’ll add some layers of Lizard Skin and this round of “body work” will be done and I can start on striping and cleaning suspension and axles during the next phase. Pretty pumped how it’s working out.
gonzopancho
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The front row floors in my 74 are all but pristine. @Cruiser Innovations did a small patch to the driver’s footwell.
74' FJ55 Build...
Finished welding up the rear axle spring perches, and fabricated the rear shock mounts. Threw a few beads on the stock sway bar mounts just to clean them up a bit... Painted and ready to go...
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The second row has some issues.
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My only Christmas gift... 
bobm
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Perfect color 
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- #152
Poked around a bit on the Limo this afternoon. The Fatso kept the temperature in the mid 60s with the continued brutal winds outside
Added a fender badge where one was missing
Dug the old antenna out. It was more stubborn than it should be
Lastly I went to install the $60 OEM wiper blades and they are tiny. Some 40 series model not 55
The shop cat is pissed I took the seat out
Added a fender badge where one was missing
Dug the old antenna out. It was more stubborn than it should be
Lastly I went to install the $60 OEM wiper blades and they are tiny. Some 40 series model not 55
The shop cat is pissed I took the seat out
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- #153
Ah, the salad days of cleaning and removal of 44 year old parts.
Massive hits needed the hot knife
Not sure how long the rear diff has leaked but I removed 15# of caked on love from the body and axle.
Massive hits needed the hot knife
Not sure how long the rear diff has leaked but I removed 15# of caked on love from the body and axle.
RUSH55
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Interesting, field-welded receiver
Cool shop!
You know, I think a lot of us have built stuff back in the day like that. You used what you had and there was no internet telling us how funky we were for doing it that way. It still worked in the end, right.
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Back in the day?
I'm still going, I don't need the internet to tell me I'm doing it wrong that's what my wife is for.
You know, I was thinking the same thing after I posted that. 
I'm still cobbling sheet together.
I'm still cobbling sheet together.
gonzopancho
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Back at Thompson Drilling we fabbed stuff then sent it down hole, or put 100,000 lbs of load on it, sometime both. The running commentary was that it was always “too heavy”.
I built the gates for my mother in 1978. Dad said it was good practice. Skill building, as it were. They’re faced with expanded steel. Lots of tiny welds, all of it done with an acetylene torch.
They’re still there (parents moved out in 1982.)
And I still have dad’s torch set. Someday I’ll get the time and space happening again.
I built the gates for my mother in 1978. Dad said it was good practice. Skill building, as it were. They’re faced with expanded steel. Lots of tiny welds, all of it done with an acetylene torch.
They’re still there (parents moved out in 1982.)
And I still have dad’s torch set. Someday I’ll get the time and space happening again.
bobm
WTF, WTF, WTF!!!!
If you can weld with Acetylene torch you're Old School
