If your gonna do that why not just cut the top right behind the B pillar and weld some sheet metal to the top side of the sides and do the same to the top you cut off. That way you could have a removable top.
Techster’s 1973 FJ55 buildup...
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If your gonna do that why not just cut the top right behind the B pillar and weld some sheet metal to the top side of the sides and do the same to the top you cut off. That way you could have a removable top.
That's a cool idea. I'm gonna have to exo it, but I could make the exo unbolt in the back.
It's tough to wheel hard in the mid west without rain gutter protection.
It's tough to wheel hard in the mid west without rain gutter protection.
Oh I was talking the who top including the side windows. Like the old blazers or 4 runners.
You could leave the rear tailgate window in it and roll it down when the top was off.
I'd still use the rear doors, cut down, reversing the swing & making them open like suicide doorsGreat
Like the FJ Cruiser.
ANother cool idea, but really hard to engineer and I HATE those doors on our FJC.
I'm forever trying to access the rear while in a parking spot and shuffling back and forth trapped between the doors and the cars. The rear passenger can't really close their own door and can't get out while the driver has his seat belt on. It's also still a reach to set something on the back seat, the main reason I want a four door DD.
That's what I was thinking too, but if you exo cage the top it would have to be able to come at least partially off to remove the top in the back.
zuluzeugma
SILVER Star
Mine turned out just like the one trollhole posted up. I really need to put up a pic of the finished product. Bobed 12.5 inches and choped the rear roof.
I saw that.
I broke out the plasma today. I drilled out the spot welds on the roof and started cutting.
We'll see how it goes.
I'm going with the little door window after polling the students who are helping with the project.
edit - it's cut. no pics only because you really don't want to see how the sausage is made. Just enjoy the tasty goodness at the end. 21 inches bobbed. pretty much the rear most floor panel from the sill to the seam in the floor.
I broke out the plasma today. I drilled out the spot welds on the roof and started cutting.
We'll see how it goes.
I'm going with the little door window after polling the students who are helping with the project.
edit - it's cut. no pics only because you really don't want to see how the sausage is made. Just enjoy the tasty goodness at the end. 21 inches bobbed. pretty much the rear most floor panel from the sill to the seam in the floor.
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Yeah, I wasn't really suggesting it, just making an observation. I am with you on the doors too. They make me nuts. Try shoving a 7 month old squirmy kid through about a 10X10 opening into a car seat that is jammed into the back seat, and then trying to buckle her squirmy ass into the seat, all within that tiny space you have in a parking space while you are trying not to bang into the next guy's car.
Sorry, but all that was to say that I think that what you decided to do was good.
Got it all mounted on the spare frame today. Got everything lined up and started welding it together. I hope to have it in primer by the end of the weekend.
One of the kids suggested welding panels over the window openings. It does look pretty cool as a panel van, but I would hate wheeling it. It would be just like an FJC in the back. No rearward view at all.
One of the kids suggested welding panels over the window openings. It does look pretty cool as a panel van, but I would hate wheeling it. It would be just like an FJC in the back. No rearward view at all.
zuluzeugma
SILVER Star
HAHA, be nice! MY FJC rocks for camping/snowboarding trips... But you're 100% right. You can't see a GD thing out the back. Don't close the back in, that would be a bad idea.
You kinda gotta squint to get past the Frankenstein scars and imagine it in proper pig colors. It's getting there.
That rocks. I like it.
Right on!!!
It's not really going to be proper pig colors. I picked up some of Dupli-Color's new Paint Shop laquer system. They don't have a whole lot of colors. It's supposed to be really easy to put on. No mixing and it dries so fast you really don't need a booth. The Fj50 (new model designation for the two door pig) is going to be blue and white like the pic I stole and chopped.
I almost got one side done today. I had to put some time in on the 45LV. I wanted to get them both in primer today, but it didn't happen. Gotta wheel next weekend, but the family is going to visit relatives without me on Turkey day weekend so I'm pretty sure I can have it in paint by December.
The War Pig wheels it's last time for Toys For Tots on Dec 3-5, then the body comes off and the Fj-50 body goes on.
I almost got one side done today. I had to put some time in on the 45LV. I wanted to get them both in primer today, but it didn't happen. Gotta wheel next weekend, but the family is going to visit relatives without me on Turkey day weekend so I'm pretty sure I can have it in paint by December.
The War Pig wheels it's last time for Toys For Tots on Dec 3-5, then the body comes off and the Fj-50 body goes on.
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Holy crap that was fast! I like it a lot.
LC_Hamma
The Anti-Leafer
No sh_t! How many lil helpers you got workin on that
? Since the rear doors won't be active, I would have enlarged the rear wheel wells. You're gonna hafta body lift or spring lift to use *decent sized tires & that raises your COG. How 'bout an interior shot where you grafted it together? Lookin 
so far!
I'd like to not have to cut off much of the fender lip since they're actually good on this body, but I doubt I'll have a lot of choice. We'll see once the body is on the other frame.
The inside is a mess. Nothing lines up for more than a few inches. It'll be plenty to weld to and I can cover it with a inside panel.
lil helpers are handy sometimes.
other times, not so much
The inside is a mess. Nothing lines up for more than a few inches. It'll be plenty to weld to and I can cover it with a inside panel.
lil helpers are handy sometimes.
other times, not so much
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that was fast
looks great
my piglet turned into woodpig
looks great
my piglet turned into woodpig
