Light restoration on a 40

[Radd Cruisers]

Few more for fun....

 

[yooper]

Looking good! The top looks beautiful.

I'm impressed with everything.

Bummer on the silicone and gooey mess. "Lots of hours"!

I'm getting more and more excited!

 

[Radd Cruisers]

Thanks Sean, it should be real clean.

Sanded out the orange peel on original paint and made it smooth like a show car.

New guys I am working with are pretty good at this stuff and have impressed me with the paint they put out. I spray a little, but leave the good stuff up to the painter as he has many years of expierence.

Im just the grunt labour who does the welding, sand blasting and some finishing.

Rob

Looking good! The top looks beautiful.

I'm impressed with everything.

Bummer on the silicone and gooey mess. "Lots of hours"!

I'm getting more and more excited!

 

[honk]

Good thread.

Goes to show how insidious rust is and ought to be a caution to anyone being assured that that ebay $$ treasure is "totally 100% rust free".

 

[Landpimp]

looking great

the top to me looked really really good(it was very shinny) when I had it, just painted it becuase everything else is getting painted?

the PO was not me who did the silicone, same with the WS on the doors.....not sure why he did that.

Couple more shots.

Once of the top painted base clear.

Another of a bit more rust to blast, also it gives you some idea how much silicone the PO had put on this rig, all over in a effort to keep the water out I guess. What a PITA, chemical does not touch it, has to be peeled and sanded off.

PO also put some cheesey weather stripping on the roof side and many other various places in a effort to keep it quiet????

Lots of hours removing the gummy residue left behind after its peeled.

Rob

 

[UNO_RACING]

I feel your pain in regard to silicone. The previous owner of my truck also used silicone everywhere....even made weatherstrip out of silicone. It was a real PITA to remove, but it did preserve the interior of the truck.

I used a stright edge razor to remove and what stuck, I used a wire wheel.

 

[yooper]

Good thread.

Goes to show how insidious rust is and ought to be a caution to anyone being assured that that ebay $$ treasure is "totally 100% rust free".

It's especially impressive to those of us who saw the truck before Rob started working on it. It was really nice already, with a few spots of rust that looked kinda bad. I'm very rust sensitive and I was really pleased with it already. The majority of the rust that he found was totally hidden.

 

[honk]

It's especially impressive to those of us who saw the truck before Rob started working on it. It was really nice already, with a few spots of rust that looked kinda bad. I'm very rust sensitive and I was really pleased with it already. The majority of the rust that he found was totally hidden.

Right, that's what I was getting at, yooper, pretty neat that you decided to send it to be repaired - or is it mostly up there to be dieselized?.


On that weatherstrip adhesive....Toyota was often pretty sloppy with what looks to be 3M yellow weatherstrip adhesive. Think that stuff shown might be OEM? I'm saying this because my BJ40 had it in excess on both doors - lots more was put on than was needed to hold the door seals. It didn't get on the door frames at all but came close on one side. Bitch to clean off.

 

[Landpimp]

I know what your saying my JD green 82 is just like your saying(and its original, like yours), but in the case of Yoopers Mustard......it did have some other PO applied gunga on it

On that weatherstrip adhesive....Toyota was often pretty sloppy with what looks to be 3M yellow weatherstrip adhesive. Think that stuff shown might be OEM? I'm saying this because my BJ40 had it in excess on both doors - lots more was put on than was needed to hold the door seals. It didn't get on the door frames at all but came close on one side. Bitch to clean off.

 

[Radd Cruisers]

I know it was no handy work of Landpimps, PO before him might have done it.


Otherwise its great,funny how you start sanding back a tinny rust spot that opens up to a a quarter size. Also there was some time spent to hide some of the rust carefully that opened up to a can of worms.

Still I want it so Sean pulls the roof and edges are as shinny and tidy as the rest of the rig.

Rob

 

[yooper]

...is it mostly up there to be dieselized?.

No diesel at this time. If there was anything wrong with this 2F I would have considered that strongly, but it's one of the best running and strongest 2F's I've encountered.

I wanted all possible rust repaired before bringing it here to the land of salt. That rust would have exploded over a year or two here, like it did on my FJ62, which I just sold for primarily that reason.

I'll never drive this 40 in the winter and it will be garaged every night of its life.

 

[yooper]

Still I want it so Sean pulls the roof and edges are as shinny and tidy as the rest of the rig.

Me too!

 

[Radd Cruisers]

Wow, really been bouncing around, near finished.

Sprayed the inside and the roof with with PPG Concept, this stuff looks great, shiny shiny shin and flat as glass.

Chasing the threads with this snap on kit, really nice stuff.

Rob

 

[yooper]

looking sweet!

more!




I've got about a month of driveable weather left....

 

[Hugh Heifer]

I noticed the texture in the bed. Is that colored lining or did you spray in black or something else and then paint it? If it is colored lining what brand are you using?

 

[Radd Cruisers]

Tintable liner, then topcoated for perfect match.

I noticed the texture in the bed. Is that colored lining or did you spray in black or something else and then paint it? If it is colored lining what brand are you using?

 

[Radd Cruisers]

New pictures

 

[Radd Cruisers]

Nother

 

[Radd Cruisers]

Lastly

 

[Radd Cruisers]

Gotta say, best paint I have ever put out, cannot take the credit as a 20 year vetran painter splashed it.

Over 2.5 hours to mask this baby off.

Spraying was done in three steps, white parts first, inside of tub plus roof next then body and doors third.

Rob