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[Firemedic831]

Thats about where my rig is at, fully modern drivetrain, 37"s, and more wheel travel than most people ever use. Its a good wheeling / driver combo for the most part.


It always seems like they get driven on the street more than you would think.

If this was the only 40 i would for sure say 37 and be done. But again this is more of a dedicated wheeler even though i want to make it nice I have tried to keep my black one very Toyota even though its really a dedicated wheeler , Body wise its all Toyota No crappy hardware store 13 mm junk . If we can cruise these things into town run around Lake Tahoe or whatever then its a win the Primary goal is to wheel anywhere and everywhere and not break and just have some super cool old Trucks . I am sure we would be money ahead if we just went and bought 100k jeeps but what fun is that .

 

[Firemedic831]

Pulled the old hood hinges ( had to drill every bolt out ). Then I sand blasted them . I painted a bunch of little parts also.

 

[FloridaPhillip]

Pulled the old hood hinges ( had to drill every bolt out ). Then I sand blasted them . I painted a bunch of little parts also.

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That looks good. I need a sand blaster.

 

[EWheeler]

Pulled the old hood hinges ( had to drill every bolt out ). Then I sand blasted them . I painted a bunch of little parts also.

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What kind of media do you use in your Skat Blast cabinet? We just picked up an 8’ wide Skat Blast unit for work from a business liquidation sale. Was looking at the skat blast media options, but the cost is pretty outrageous when they add the freight charges.

 

[Firemedic831]

What kind of media do you use in your Skat Blast cabinet? We just picked up an 8’ wide Skat Blast unit for work from a business liquidation sale. Was looking at the skat blast media options, but the cost is pretty outrageous when they add the freight charges.

100 grit aluminum oxide

 

[Firemedic831]

Few more parts

 

[Firemedic831]

I had a rear tire carrier. Thinking maybe make it into
A gas can holder . While we think about that I have other things to do like make some room

 

[Firemedic831]

Utt ohh that’s too big. Better fill it in with something

 

[Firemedic831]

Cut 2 inches off the rockers.

 

[Firemedic831]

I set a slider up For reference

 

[74fj40]

You might need to do some more cutting!!

 

[Firemedic831]

Decided to take another 1 3/4 out of the rear. This will work better with the 43s

 

[Firemedic831]

This is at 23 inch frame height I think 24 will be the target and probably tube fenders as much as I don’t want to do that. We will see

 

[Firemedic831]

Playing around with some ideas

 

[Firemedic831]

Started taking the body mount bolts out . I got one out . Will keep at em . And I decided to pull the hinges. The top hinges are certainly fun . But if I am framing this might as well go all in and make it as nice as I can . I am certain it will get rolled the first time out and end up buried in mud. . But I will know the day it rolls out of my garage it will be the best it’s been since the day it was built 50 something years ago

 

[Firemedic831]

And just like that i woke up and knew what i was going to do .

 

[peesalot]

pee, let dog out, coffee, dog in, poop, work on cruiser, duh.

 

[Firemedic831]

Guess this won’t be a patina build

 

[Firemedic831]

I harvested some more parts that I can use . I will build the sliders like on mine.

 

[Firemedic831]

Cutting the frame at the white line and building a tube front