Builds 1964 FJ45 Short Bed Fixed Top Pickup Restoration (1 Viewer)

[wngrog]

Lots of stuff going on in the background but not a lot to update.

But soon we will have some cool.

In the meantime Cowboy is standing guard

 

[wngrog]

@tucker74 sent me some proper chains for the SWB. I had them powdered all pretty

 

[Clutchee]

Great work, but a cat I hate and on fresh paint, if he/she has claws..... I would loose my sh#t!

 

[wngrog]

Great work, but a cat I hate and on fresh paint, if he/she has claws..... I would loose my sh#t!

I mean .... I’m WAY more of a menace to this paint than anything Cowboy could every possibly do to it

Thanks Clutchee. It’s been fun. Looking forward to a few more cool parts inbound.

 

[middlecalf]

Anything to put over those chains?

 

[wngrog]

Anything to put over those chains?

I have covers on my 45 but I thing they are kinda silly. If they clank around, sure.

 

[wngrog]

Worked on some odds and ends today.

Filled the diffs

Took some parts to the local fab shop to have built on the laser table

Discussed turbo options.

Closing up early today. Youngest child turned 16 so we are going out. Sorry to y’all that live in communist places that are still locked down.

 

[FJ60Cam]

Freedom and Turbos, Hell Yeah!

 

[tucker74]

Those cleaned up nice

 

[wngrog]

Those cleaned up nice

Thanks for contributing some good OEM to this one. The ACE hardware chains were killing me

 

[pjohnson]

Street Outlaws - Tilda Bogue

 

[jomelo]

Pouring some concrete today in the new cruiser pad. Rotunda needs a cool and quiet place to rest. Hopefully going to get the additional roof work going next week and then it will truly start taking shape.

 

[wngrog]

So, plan A on the winch setup did not end up working. When I had the Scout Saginaw I was going to add this refurbished PTO to the front as jewelry. Wasn’t going to work but it was going to look damn good.

That’s out now so Lockwood sent me another one of his used 8274’s that he finds on the bottom of the ocean.

I hated. Hated to remove the beautiful pewter OEM bumper but in its place I had my powder coater finish out this awesome, sturdy, simple 4Plus bumper to take its place

 

[wngrog]

I worked hard on this crappy 8274 and I transformed it nicely into something worthy of the front of this rare Cruiser

 

[wngrog]

These are solid gold.

 

[OGBeno]

Whoah.

 

[Tank5]

These are solid gold.

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Very cool!

 

[hooter]

These are solid gold.

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Source?!?

 

[wngrog]

Source?!?

A hoarder. Last set. Sorry.

 

[FJ60Cam]

Nothing new to report motor-wise. We are up next in the machine shop, though.

Just for the sake of posting pictures, we are building a stock-ish-spec “1F” as a practice run for the big boi...