Soon to be restored

[Rotamendi]

Hello guys,

I'm new here, soon i'll be restoring my fj45 from 1980.
this pick up was on my dad's farm since 20 years lol, so she was a little bit rusty, but anyhow... It has some work now:

1) New 2F motor.
2) Chassis restauration.

Right now she's on a work shop waiting for the new parts to arrive, I'm thinking on the color, and the accesories I'll put on it, another issue that was on my mind is, the isolation of the cabin.

If any of you want to help with any idea, will be great!!

PD: Sory for the bad english, I'm from Venezuela!

Here, some pictures!

 

[D'Animal]

Welcome to IH8MUD.

Looking forward to the restoration process and the finished rig.

 

[Hogan]

Can't wait to see the restoration progress. We'll need lots of pictures.

 

[Rotamendi]

Hello Guys...

Does anyone here have a list of what to do when you're doing a restoration?

Because, I have to do it all... and honestly I have no clue where to start, the chassis and motor is ready, i'm still searching for the body parts, who are very hard to find here, and expensive!

So, any help will be great!

 

[Hogan]

Hello Guys...

Does anyone here have a list of what to do when you're doing a restoration?

Because, I have to do it all... and honestly I have no clue where to start, the chassis and motor is ready, i'm still searching for the body parts, who are very hard to find here, and expensive!

So, any help will be great!

I would spend some time and read this thread and any other build threads you find on this site.

https://forum.ih8mud.com/fj45-owners-club/104821-3-days-3300-miles-later.html

 

[subzali]

Most people strip the body off the chassis and rebuild from the frame and axles up to the drivetrain (engine, tranny) and finally the body. Seems to me though that the body stuff can be the toughest part, and if you're not making big/any changes to the drivetrain or chassis it would be good to start with body repairs. That way you have the most enthusiasm, money, and time to devote to getting the body fixed. So many builds stall during the body repair stage, because work has been progressing slowly and time, funds, enthusiasm or life circumstances result in a loss of interest, and some of these builds end up on craigslist as buckets of parts

Everything besides the body is pretty easy, comparatively. And if you blast, clean, and paint the frame, the rest of it can be done with the body on the frame, which could have its advantages.

 

[fjwagon]

Welcome to mud. There are many approaches you can take. If it were me, I would make a list of all the things it needs with the goal of getting it road worthy first. May have to get a donor vehicle in the process to offset your cost and at the end sell off what you don't need. After you get it running you will start getting ideas on what else it needs or maybe give yourself time to digest what would work best for you. In the meantime you can drive it around. Your project has just increased in price because it's now road worthy. And the surprising part is once you get everything working you now know the status prior to taking it apart....and hopefully you learned new things along the way that will make it easier later down the road.

The next phases in my opinion is get a camera, marker and plastic bags and take pics and label everything that is coming apart. My Dad's mechanic would take everything apart and put everything in a bucket. It worked for him. Separating and labeling is time consuming but much easier and faster to figure out where which hardware goes where. Good Luck.

 

[cult45]

The first question you need to know the answer to:

What do you want?