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In tonight's episode we bore you with boxes and doors


primer


wait for it to dry

paint some more


cut down some perfectly terrible doors




chop chop


tomorrow weld weld, drill drill

and yes, I know it'd be a lot easier to simply make a couple panels out of a bit of sheet steel. thanks for noticing
 
FIRST AID CONTENTS

- Stopwatch

- Knife

- Light

- Dressing scissors

- Hemorrhage control bandage (2)

- Self-adhering gauze (2 rolls)

- Plastic bags, gallon

- Medium gauze pads (6)

- Clothe tape

- Exam gloves

- Face shield

- Lip balm

- Insecticide

- Sun screen

- Water pills

- Aspirin

- Tylenol

- Benadryl

- Neosporin

- Antiseptic toilette

- Burn gel

- Benzoin tincture

- Triangle bandage

- Bandaids

- Butterfly bandage

- Thermometer and sleeves

- Triangle bandage, large (2)

- SAM splint

- Emergency blanket

- Ace bandage

- Small Leatherman’s tool

- Moleskin

- Large compress pads

- Hot pads

- Rescue form

- Pen

- Felt tip pen





VITALS TIME taken

Breathing

__________BPM ________:__________

Pulse

__________BPM _________:___________

Cap refill?________________

Temperature?_______________

Pupils?

Take every 15 minutes

INJURIES











Time found? ____/________/_______

Who are you?

Where do you hurt? How did it happen?

What day is it? Time?

When did you get hurt?

Are you married?

Who are you with?

Are you allergic to anything?

RECORD GPS LOCATION OF SUBJECT



CALL 911 GET HELP COMING


Now that help is on its way, record vitals here every 15 minutes for the next link of rescue chain

Your name, phone number





Assisted by







Witnesses





VITALS (and on back)

MAKE PLAN UNTIL ETA OF RESCUE, Is the patient safe? Protected?
 
locks:
adjustment required



lots of crap to store

getting there


extra box


I could use it here, but I won't


and there we go, everything in its place and nothing loose to kill me
 
I like what you've done! I've been following along from the first, and enjoying your work. I don't do a lot of posting/comments, but I appreciate what you went through. And, to get featured like you did is a real complement.

Don
 
So I think after spending yet another day working on the hardtop, that I'm going to go with a soft top. I don't have a set of good doors (that's another $500), the rubber seals for the doors and windows ($600), or coatings/glue ($200). There is another top locally to me, but that's $600 and really doesn't save me any money because it doesn't come with doors. I can get a best top with doors for about $1,200... I want a hardtop, but at this point the need v. want along with "done now" vs. "done after several more days of work" is starting to weigh in favor of a soft top then, should I fix the doors or find new doors and spend time rebuilding the roof rail.... I'll have both. And I would like a trollhole top, but that's $2500 with the top and the hoops.

pictures in awhile
 
Not much to report tonight.... took Buick out for a spin, not happy except that he's with me so on balance, it's 'ok'


I cheated loading him - getting him out took help in the form of Kinsey.


clutch is too stiff, gas pedal is, again, sticky so some things to resolve... still deciding what's next. I think what's next short term is I'll take some very good advice to enjoy the build and go wheeling :)
 
selling parts - if anyone needs sheet metal from the areas prone to rust around the wheel wells - now would be an awesome time to suggest I find them for you.... otherwise they might end up as a Hyundai.
 
so I put an ad up on Craigslist to sell the parts - wow, granted I'm selling them for 50% of ebaytail; but still, I'm amazed at the response. So far I have one person that bought the parts while in France (but lives in Seattle), and all the rest are going large distances.... coolness, I get the FJ40 I always wanted and others are getting theirs on the road - recycling works!
 
So today I had trouble, I flipped someone off but they didn't notice... so I fixed the horn


so that pretty much makes this done - I'll continue with the occasional updates, but I have 3 other projects (actually 5 if the trailers are included) that are not related to a 4x4 site.

This is my long-long-long term project

that has the nuts to carry this tire


with a twin turbo 455 Buick.... anyway - point is thanks for watching.
 
finishing up
clamps for the steering shafts




at 6 or 8 mpg, a fuel gauge would be nice


for those of you doing your own stunts - the FJ40 sender is not compatible with the Dakota digital dash
 
nuts n bolts
outside of going to a car show, I didn't do much today... but
Clutch, I'm still not there, but I'm closer I replaced the 1" master cylinder with a 3/4" long travel then moved the slave cylinder closer to the pivot point. It's a bit easier to push, but more importantly it fully disengages - but it's still not perfect and I want perfect so I'll keep working on this


under this seat is the fuel sender

and there it is


new one

installed, and for the record those are fuel tank zip screws


and the gauge works - which is a nice feature.
 
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