Residual Boulders 79 Pig Build - Picture Overload.

[residualboulders]

Newer cruisers are getting a little heavy in the hips.

 

[residualboulders]

The pig, keeping an eye on the smoked pork we had on for lunch at work.

 

[residualboulders]

This old, twisted, dented bumper took hours of work to get to this point.

 

[residualboulders]

This is why the rear window stays up most of the time.

 

[cruiserdan]

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Looks like a match.

 

[residualboulders]

Its a good color combo.

 

[residualboulders]

 

[bobm]

Newer cruisers are getting a little heavy in the hips.

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Kardashian

 

[greenbeast]

Kardashian

Not that heavy....

 

[residualboulders]

@bobm @greenbeast ill never understand their popularity, by they’re more G Wagon or Cadillac Escalade than landcruiser for sure.

 

[greenbeast]

I'll refrain from what I really call them as there may be kids reading some of this

 

[PabloCruise]

Love the look of the tall skinnies, but I've kinda always wanted to have the stock wheels widened for a stock but beefier look. So I robbed the wheels off my 40 so I could keep driving my 55 around. Then sent the wheels off to Stockton to have them widened and powder coated.

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I am sure the 40 had a few choice words about those events!
I will keep reading to see how the widening process worked out.
Did the original owners say anything about the color scheme? Did they get it repainted at some point?
Beautiful Pig...

 

[PabloCruise]

My son and I took several trips to the Landcruiser Heritage Museum and asked @cruiserdan a bunch of random model year specific questions all of which he knew the answer too. They have a very nice 78 FJ55 with something like 11k miles on it. I wanted to see it in person and take pics so I'd have them to reference to. I planned to do stock reproduction upholtery and whatnot, but went off the rails a little bit with that when it came down to it. More on that later. It was helpful to see where the stock factory paint transitions were. Dan let me crawl around underneath and take pics of the sway bar and such as mine was manufacturered just a few weeks after they quit making the sway bar standard.
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Some of my boys fav rigs there:
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I had no idea Toyota dropped the rear sway bar in '78 or '79!

 

[PabloCruise]

Great Story

x2! I am enjoying reading this!

And it looks like you got your ducks in a row and then sat down and started posting away - cool!

 

[PabloCruise]

Doors and hood were painted in the shop at work.
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Pretty cool you were able to knock that out at work!

 

[PabloCruise]

Installed the tailgate which was no fun at all with that tensioner rod. I didn't love it.

but it looks good now that it's done. Bought all my weatherstrip from @SLOCRUISER and window felts through Rockauto.

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That tailgate is a special kind of joy, isn't it?

 

[PabloCruise]

The bracket should have 2 bands and the lines do not use hose clamps.

True, you don't see many factory AC systems using hose clamps.
I think early on in the thread he said it was factory AC and dealer add-on air?

 

[PabloCruise]

First drive up the road a mile or two after installing the seats and putting the doors on.

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Beautiful!
Where are you in Wyo?
It would be cool to meet up sometime!

 

[PabloCruise]

Got my door panels from SMS headliners. Unfortunately he made a mistake and put the speaker hole on the wrong side, ha ha. He sent me some correct ones, no complaints, asap. Bummer. He did a great job on the replacements.

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Wow, he made the panels for you w/ speaker holes?!? Fancy!
Nice work @a1500ram

 

[PabloCruise]

Sometimes I do things twice.

Why do it once when you can do it twice? I do a lot of projects like that...