Builds Olive the 71 FJ40 build

[frankenyota]

Cleaned up the tool box lid, body hinges,
sprayed with Epotec.
Rollbar will be sprayed in black raptor
Can anyone tell me if the tool box lid is body colour? Mine was painted black but was green underneath, it seems they were body colour from factory from looking at pictures on Ih8mud.

 

[frankenyota]

Attacked the rear sill and quarters, glad i did. Found the sill underneath was saveable so sandblasted and welded any holes. Had a new outer sill bent up at the local sheet metal shop for $45. Made up some patch pieces for the quarters and tried my best not to heat warp the sheet metal. Happy with how it turned out.
Need to sandblast in behind the rear sill and paint. Looking at filling the gaps underneath the guards with some seam sealer before it gets raptor. Not 100% sure if this is overkill or going to cause rust down the road. Any recommendations?

 

[frankenyota]

All welds ground down and rear sill installed. Last picture shows the gap under the guard which I'm still deciding whether or not to seam seal.
Looking at using this for my seam sealing
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[frankenyota]

Here are some pictures from the last two weeks of work. Panels and body all sanded and prep for Raptor Liner.
Was recommended to go a few shades of green darker as the tintable raptor makes the colour lighter.
Think i should have stuck with the colour i wanted and not going darker as you can see a difference with the original colour on the dash.
Still happy with the way it turned out. Used the vari-raptor gun.

 

[frankenyota]

Some black Raptor under the guards , rollbar fuel tank and trans tunnel

 

[frankenyota]

Rear doors and tool box lid.
One rear door i went bait too heavy on the lower section trying to cover a repair.
A little bit of filler should sort that out before painting, Live and learn i guess as raptor won't hide all the sins.

 

[frankenyota]

Wanted to assemble the gearbox cover but couldn't find a new gasket so decided to make one from some rubber.
Made a template from cardboard then transferred to rubber. Cut out the rubber and attached it with 3M Weather strip adhesive.
Seems to do the job.

 

[frankenyota]

Fitted the gearbox cover

 

[frankenyota]

Made some rubber strips for the fuel tank to mount on and fitted the tank.
It's nice to start putting things back together instead of stripping them apart.

 

[frankenyota]

Moved onto the fibreglass half doors as i got sick of panel beating the steel doors that needed too much work.
I left the paint stripper on one of the fibreglass doors a bit too long and it ate into the gel coat. No big deal just use some poly filler to build them back up, nothing like some extra work.
The PO had drilled straight through the door inner panel to mount the hinges so also patched that up and fibreglassed some captured stainless nuts in.

 

[frankenyota]

 

[frankenyota]

Cleaned up the dash brackets, brake and clutch pedals, tank brackets, roller mounts and epoxy primed ready for black paint

 

[frankenyota]

Then moved onto the windscreen surround which had some extra holes drilled for the bikini top.
Found both hinges folded down but had broken bolts. Early hinges don't have the bushes like the later ones i found out.
Good times drilling these little bastards.
Then drilled them to suit some brass bushes i had

 

[frankenyota]

Removed some other broken hinges from my spare windscreen. Impact driver couldn't get these ones so welding a nut to the screw technique solved that problem.

 

[plink01]

Hey mate loving your work. The panel work is coming up great. Where abouts in Aus you from??

 

[frankenyota]

Thanks mate, happy with the way the panel work is turning out, it is time consuming but enjoyable. Certainly have an appreciation for old school panel beaters.
I live on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.

 

[frankenyota]

Here are the extra holes drilled in the top of the windscreen frame where the soft top channel was fitted.
Cleaned and welded the holes up and used the original threaded holes to mount the channel

Can anyone tell me if this hole is factory for the upper door sections or is it the two captured nuts where the eyelet is fitted?

Here is the cut down channel which was too long, now with an overlap in the centre and using captured nuts. Looks much better than screws

 

[frankenyota]

Started to strip the tub, repair the rust pitting and holes under the windscreen rubber.
Wasn't going to go back to bear metal but after finding body filler l'm glad i did.
Last picture shows the body filler thickness.

 

[frankenyota]

Picture after some body massaging of the cowl panel which was filled with body filler.
Cleaned up the side section of filler and thought that sometime in its history possibly had an accident and repair.
Was glad to see no more rust in the panels

 

[frankenyota]

During all that work i found sometime during the last few months to fit up my Just Race Parts multi gauge in my 80 series and wire in the sensors.
Very happy with how it turned out, might change the position of the gauge to the dash as its blocks the high beam indicator light.
Have now added the fuel pressure sensor to the fuel rail. Was waiting on an adapter to come in.
This has alarms set points which can be set and different displays.
Hoping to add a turbo to the 1FZ once the Shorty is finished.
Considering adding one to the Shorty, maybe.

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