Build Rebuilding a 40 but no longer in a 1 car garage.

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if you keep this up... your going to fab your own cruiser from scratch!!!

Copying it bit by bit.

 

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Started with cutting and Folding some steel.

The basic shape of the body mount support.

 

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Drilled out the original support.

Old VS new

And a test fit
Not done yet but the basic shape is there.

 

[mrboatman]

Very Talented. I enjoy watching what you have done. Great work.
JP

 

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Very Talented. I enjoy watching what you have done. Great work.
JP

Thanks for the compliment.

 

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The beam cleaned up very nice

Cut out the bad part of the floor

Positioned the beam

 

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Making the new bracket fit.

Floor patch.

 

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One of the brackets in the beam was to far gone so making a new one.

 

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Second support, this one has the captive nuts for the gas filler.

Used Cardboard to get the shape right.

And bended. Next to it you can see the two reinforcement brackets for the Seat belt nuts.

 

[White Stripe]

I think that's one of the mistakes Toyota made when designing the 40 series bodies. By installing support c channel under the floor with the c facing up their is no way to access and seam seal the inside of the c and install seam sealer to prevent rusting.

 

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Reinforcements are rusted pretty bad, sides are good but the bottom is gone.

Making a new bottom for the supports.

 

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Test fit

Perfect fit.

 

[Honger]

Beautiful work man...

 

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Beautiful work man...

Thanks

 

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Small steps.

 

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New brace for inside the center beam

Old and new.

Its future position.

 

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One more of the new bracket.

All other brackets removed for derusting.

 

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Today I started with cleaning and sand blasting the beam and brackets.
Treated them with Brunox and let them curve for a few days.

Next fase wil probably be etch primer and or epoxy.

 

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Next I finished the bead roller dyes for the bib.
Rolled the beads, cut the patch to size and fit it to the bib.

Next I started welding .

The profile is a lot better now.