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I'm guessing that with the ingenuity you've shown so far and some steel channel cut and boxed in the right way, you'll be able to make a really nice substitute. I'll be watching!
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Good skills!
Won't be long now!
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Excellent!
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Update. Finished the left doors and the rear bumper made with a front lj 70 bumper. A huge work. Cut in lenght cause it was too high. Then made it wider with a modelled part welded in the middle, and changed the angle of the side parts. Much cutting, welding, grinding, sanding. It is the most oem like I could do. Quite happy. Some pictures
Man, good job on the bumper. I made my own and tried to get it close to OEM, but not as nice as yours.
I feel like a kid who ditched class on pizza day...what an amazing thread. GOOD WORK!
@tatat thank you for sharing your journey! I have a similar one ahead of me with the roof i fear and your approach, skills and results has given me faith that I'll be able to make something work. After you cut the roof off did you simply replace it with flat sheet and weld it to the formed edges you made at the gutters?
Do you have any recent photos of your adventures with your family?!
Do you have any recent photos of your adventures with your family?!
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Hi brisvaganbj42. For the roof I reused the main part, I just replaced the edges, then put the reusable part on the new parts and welded it. Not a very nice job but I did my best. I am still thinking on building one in fiberglass, but it needs a to builld a model in any material, then a mold, then the roof. Much work and much time.
Tatat,
I used this product...Eastwood Internal Frame Coating 14oz Aerosol
among others, but the spray wand worked well for getting up behind the gutters from the inside.
J Mack made his own spray wand that works with a regular paint gun.
I used this product...Eastwood Internal Frame Coating 14oz Aerosol
among others, but the spray wand worked well for getting up behind the gutters from the inside.
J Mack made his own spray wand that works with a regular paint gun.
Bought the one for my pressure pot spray gun 30+ years ago, can’t remember the manufacture but similar to the flexible tip these guys sell (52-2410) but uses soft copper instead of rubber hose. I used this setup to spray epoxy primer and an undercoating in all the hard to reach areas.
Coating/Painting Equipment » Spray Gun Extensions
I also uses a (RP-100 Gun kit w/2 wands) style gun to spray a waxy/Cosmoline type coating in every nook and cranny after the pig was painted before final assembly.
Lemmer rust proofing spray equipment | corrosion control | corrosion inhibitor | rust inhibitor | undercoating | sound barrier
I just spent a half hour flipping through J Mack's build looking for that. A few pages in I totally forgot what I was looking for, a truly amazing creation.
