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The roll bar's Raven Texture looked awesome! It has almost like a sand paper texture to it!
My 1973 FJ40 Frame Off Resto Mod
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All the pieces were first blasted then phosphate washed, primed heavily with a zinc-rich primer, and then powder coated.
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Thanks! The PO had put some bondo where the spare tire hits it so we may have to do a little repair there after it get blasted.
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Thanks! I don't see that light sitting around but it might be buried in one of the buckets the PO gave us, I'll look more thoroughly. The VIN doesn't have a V in it. It is 10 digits long.
I hope you find it, they sell for silly money($100). On a non stock truck, you could probably fond a more function replacement aftermarket.
wow, didn't take them long to clean and powder coat the parts ... 
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After a lot of reading on this forum and read different reviews we ended up ordering the EMU Dakar springs for our FJ40, they are the light duty versions CS001R and CS001F with EMU bushings. We recently finished installing it and it looks great!
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I also installed new front brake calipers, new front pads, new rear brake cylinders, new rear drums, and had the rear drums re-turned. I am now working on bending new brake lines and installing them. We decided to go with a Copper/Nickel brake line that is guarantee to never rust. I'll post picture of them when I finish them.
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The rotors were in good shape so I am going to hold off on replacing them until I rebuild the front wheel hubs.
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We got the tub back from the sand blaster. Overall the tub was in great shape. The PO had tried to repair the back corners by riveting sheet metal over the rest spots so we had to have those fixed correctly and fix the back corner of the glove box that had been eaten away by rust. We also had many of the random holes in the floor welded up and all the riot holes on the fenders welded as well.
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Looking great!
That is quite a unique combo! Is that rear end off the Corvette or just the gears? A finned rear diff cover? What?
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The rear end is factory the gears have just been changed to Corvette Posi-Track. It has an aluminum diff cover that PO had installed, we actually removed it tonight to clean up and re-seal it because it was leaking.
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After welding the two rear corner pieces, glove box, and random holes we took it to Indy Line-X to have the inside tub and underside tub coated. They had sanded any surface rust that had appeared and applied an industrial 3-part epoxy primer over the whole tub. The primer was some very heavy stuff that is used mainly for outdoor industrial equipment. We had the Line-X color matched to the body color. We decided on a land rover color called Bonatti Grey Metallic.
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Thanks FJ40zen!
Looks good, but what is Grey? the Line-X? color matched to yellow?
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The whole FJ40 will be grey. The color is called Bonatti Grey Metallic. The Line-X was color matched to what the color grey the whole FJ40 will be. The yellow is just an industrial primer that we used after it was sandblasted.