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Welcome to the thread!
Extreme humidity probably.
Share some pics of your 1976 FJ40. The more pics in this thread the better
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Extreme humidity probably.
Share some pics of your 1976 FJ40. The more pics in this thread the better
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So I'm borrowing shop space over the weekends to do my larger painting in. The shop is set up with an industrial 120 gallon NAPA brand air compressor. Very nice and actually surprisingly quiet too.
When I've painted in my garage I've used a combination of smaller compressors. Basically three pancake compressors daisy chained to give me good CFM at 25-30 PSI.
Ended up buying a larger Husky 30 gallon compressor that will work instead of daisy chaining smaller ones, but haven't used it yet since I've gotten access to the shop space.
My gun is a $60 Kobalt gun I bought 2nd hand from a guy locally and you can get them at Lowe's.
Welcome to the thread!
Extreme humidity probably.
Share some pics of your 1976 FJ40. The more pics in this thread the better
Some old pics.
Crossing a creek up in Georgia long ago.
Playing in the mud.
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I repainted it couple of times.
I added the blue paint stripes when I took it to South America.
I added the blue paint stripes when I took it to South America.
For the Trans Amazon Rally.
Dug it out of my shed.....
Now it sits like this.......
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Cleaned all the old over spray from the rear curved glass windows. Also cleaned the seals and used some silicone spray to help soften them and lubricate them. Should be ready fo reinstallation once the rear side panels are painted. Exciting!
Should be painting the side panels next weekend if all goes well.
Question for the group: what color were the rear heat shields painted from the factory? Mine seem to be original and probably have never been removed or repainted and they were in primer only. One of the POs sprayed an asphalt bedliner on the entire underside of the body, but under that it seemed that the underside of the entire body was only in primer.
Anybody have an unmolested FJ40 and can tell me if the underside of the body was painted in color? And are the heat shields also in body color?
Thanks!
Should be painting the side panels next weekend if all goes well.
Question for the group: what color were the rear heat shields painted from the factory? Mine seem to be original and probably have never been removed or repainted and they were in primer only. One of the POs sprayed an asphalt bedliner on the entire underside of the body, but under that it seemed that the underside of the entire body was only in primer.
Anybody have an unmolested FJ40 and can tell me if the underside of the body was painted in color? And are the heat shields also in body color?
Thanks!
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Another question:
My FJ40 came with a 2nd set of rear curved glass, but they are noticeably smaller than what I pulled out of my hard top side panels. Are these smaller curved windows not Toyota? Or do they go on a different year or model of hard top?
Any help is appreciated
My FJ40 came with a 2nd set of rear curved glass, but they are noticeably smaller than what I pulled out of my hard top side panels. Are these smaller curved windows not Toyota? Or do they go on a different year or model of hard top?
Any help is appreciated
