Builds Project Patina-November 1968 FJ-40 (1 Viewer)

[hooter]

It felt like being a first year surgery resident “fixing” something for the world class surgeon.

with full range of motion

With your word selection, I would think you are a physician...

 

[wngrog]

With your word selection, I would think you are a physician...

Haha. 21 years of medical sales.

 

[wngrog]

I picked up a inner Tcase shifter boot from @Racer65 since heat just pours up through the shifter hole.

Pulled the old cover off and I had no backing nuts. It was just sitting there.

I did that before I discovered the wonders that are Rivnuts

 

[FJ40Jim]

I need to get one of those inner boots also. Glad to see CityRacer is making them.

 

[wngrog]

Added back a OEM light switch I bought back to Patina. The original was bad so I had a toggle. His makes me happy.

 

[subzali]

Love the winch controls.

 

[wngrog]

Love the winch controls.

Unless you ever had to actually use them. No power out is a killer on the early Warn upright.

 

[wngrog]

Having an @FJ40Jim carburator adds 40 hoursepower you know.....

 

[wngrog]

Started my end of the electric line lock project @Rainman and I started.

Having no Ebrake for short stops and when working on my truck while running kinda sucks.

Having a split case and a 40 axle does not leave many options.

Rainman made me some sweet 10mm to NPT lines with bends to allow small adjustments with translation from me to him.

So far the worst part by far has been drilling the holes in this thick part of the frame for the nutserts to mount the LL

While I was under there grounding it I found I was missing the speedo cable retainer tab. Holy crap. That was instant disaster if it had backed out.

Luckily the longer one just needed some grinder to make it work.

Spare parts rule.

 

[wngrog]

Time to get this old top in shape.

Gonna add some Noico to the roof and a headliner. I hope the Noico will stick to the fiberglass. I’ll really have to roll out the bumps @JTU style to be sure.

The fiberglass soaked up the boiled linseed oil nicely

 

[wngrog]

I would refuse to pay for the shoddy job I did here but what’s done is done. I’m not sure how many of these I would have to do to get it right with no wrinkles.

Biggest tip.

Don’t get overspray with the 3M adhesive on the headliner or on your hands. You need hands to smooth quick like and you can smear it on your pretty new liner.

I tried some Noico but it did not stick good enough not to worry me it would fall out one hot day.

You do one 1/2 at a time. I got a bit better on the second 1/2. Should have done rear first so my screw ups were not as visible to me while driving

Done. C- job

 

[offr0adlim0]

You can fix that with a heat gun

 

[wngrog]

You can fix that with a heat gun

So just heat it up and stretch out the wrinkles?

 

[offr0adlim0]

So just heat it up and stretch out the wrinkles?

Pretty much. The heat will soften the headliner material as well as the glue. The only issue you may have being that it’s a perforated liner, is the glue may ooze though the perforations. A little glue goes a long way with a headliner. Use too much and you will have a mess that will look like crap that can’t be corrected.

 

[wngrog]

Cool I did not use much glue at all. 3/4 can of yellow 3M spray. It’s worth a try to push some of those crinkles out.

 

[wngrog]

Heat gun could not fix my s***tty install.

Moving on........I just won’t look up.

 

[offr0adlim0]

Sucks. Just smear some dirt over the wrinkles to add to the patina look and call it done.

 

[wngrog]

Sucks. Just smear some dirt over the wrinkles to add to the patina look and call it done.

I need one of those cool trays like the Delta Beast has up there

 

[offr0adlim0]

I need one of those cool trays like the Delta Beast has up there

Easy enough. That was just some c-channel if I remember correctly. Available by the foot.

Speedy Metals 8" x 2.260" x 0.220" A-36 Steel Channel

 

[wngrog]

It was an old Con-Ferr tray for cigs and such.

This picture needs to be in the thread.