Build The '93 Troopy Hodgepodge

[SNLC]

So here are some things we have been working on the last few days.

Trans hump is a combo of the original H55 one and the new H152 one.

Firewall pass through on the steering column just needed a little work, old parts combined with new again.

The lower column is a 75-series and an 80-series combined.

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[SNLC]

Doing a lot on the inside right now. Tapping holes, drilled out one busted bolt still in the body, welding here and there (minor), body filler, some grinding and clean up of welds, scuffing everything that doesn’t get sanded.

Between both front doors are about sixty small holes from when the door cards got screwed on with sheet metal screws over the years. Welding them all up.

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[SNLC]

A lot going on that doesn’t show much in pics.

Gutter rail all the way around top & bottom stripped of OG seam sealer, light corrosion and paint.

Found another busted bolt in the firewall, remedied that. Stripped crappy paint that came on floor pan patches. Scuffing firewall and surrounding areas.

Inside quarters and even way up into all pillars cleaned up and scuffed. Top, bottom, inside, out and all around prepped for sealing up with 2K primer for the final time.

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[SNLC]

Inside top edge of the Troopy.

Door after welding up pin holes and scuffing.

Another of the firewall, the Troopy never had a heater just A/C so we cut heater core holes in the firewall too.

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[JMasi]

@SNLC any chance you have the part numbers for the Black steering wheel and horn button? thanks

 

[jomelo]

Glad to see you are going to get to finish this Troopy. It’s going to be super nice when complete.

 

[SNLC]

@SNLC any chance you have the part numbers for the Black steering wheel and horn button? thanks

It’s not black, it’s grey. If you are referring to the one in some pics, thats just for mock up.

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[SNLC]

Sure is A LOT of surface area on these big Toyota buses!

We have been going over the inside with a fine toothed comb. Nearly there. Still got to prep the engine bay and underside for final primer but that should be easy compared to the inside.

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[SNLC]

The Troopy outside today.

We did some spot sand blasting, blew it out and cleaned it outside as well. Tomorrow we separate the body from the chassis. Today I bought four gallons of 2K epoxying primer!


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[SNLC]

More Troopy progress pics!

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[SNLC]

Working the underside now before primer.

These pics highlight the original metal, the inner rear rockers, body mounts and related underbody structure here was never replaced. As seen earlier in the thread, floor crossmembers were all cut apart and rebuilt before being reinstalled and attached to the new rear floor.

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[SNLC]

So if a panel or body part is black it is a new OEM body piece. They all come in Toyota e-coat primer in black. We are leaving that primer for the most part. If you see gold or silver, it is weld through primer, most of that is being removed. Various other spot primers were used during all the metal + body work to seal things up at that time.

When the Troopy got sand blasted they were instructed to go "easy" on it which they did. That left some original paint and primer here and there. We have been removing that as we work through the prep process as well. The underside was never primed like the exterior and interior, probably found back on page 20ish of the build thread. So the underside is a bit dirty and so forth, again going the extra mile to clean and prep for the final round of primer.

Any ways it has been an extremely LONG road getting this body back to rust free and rebuilt, 76 pages at this point! We are taking a bit of extra care now in the way of prep to insure it is sealed up and good to go for many years. It is always in the prep when it comes to paint and body work for your final finished product.

Really excited to see this Cruiser finally done with 85-90% of the body work soon. Like I say it has been one long arse journey to get here and as I also say we are making 110% sure it is ready for this stage. I sure am going to crack a beer when it is done though and say, holy sh*t, look at that!!

I bought a GoPro not long ago to improve my video qualities. Will do some videos with it as we move forward through this whole body resto' process. We won't be painting it but we have done most of the prep for paint. It will need a final block out sanding wise on the exterior before paint but that is about it.

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[SNLC]

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[SNLC]

Our mess from prep, this is mostly just from the underside.

Wiping it down now before primer.

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[lacalvette]

I just removed the original undercoating (white thick stuff) and a coat of bed liner applied by previous owner. (What a PITA to remove and there is so much surface and corners)
I applied two coats of epoxy primer and a coat of urethane paint everywhere (under body and chassis). Do you think it would be enough in wheel well or I should lay something over there?

 

[SNLC]

Well, we got all the wanding done with the 2k epoxy primer today. We had bought six cans of grey but we ended up using ten cans. So it got four cans of black we had here in the shop too. Can’t really get good pictures of it but here are some.

The black seen is this picture is POR15 from when we did to top of the roof structure seen earlier in the thread. We flooded it up there with the POR15 so it ran down in a number of places. The POR15 we did scuff is really well adhered too.

We used a four foot wand with a 360* nozzle. It did a good job on all hollow areas, pillars, rockers, floor crossmembers, everywhere you can’t get with a gun.

Tomorrow is inside and underside and I think Friday we will be doing seam sealer. Next week the exterior and this monumental task and part of the project is done.

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[SNLC]

I just removed the original undercoating (white thick stuff) and a coat of bed liner applied by previous owner. (What a PITA to remove and there is so much surface and corners)
I applied two coats of epoxy primer and a coat of urethane paint everywhere (under body and chassis). Do you think it would be enough in wheel well or I should lay something over there?

Toyota used a heavy application of seam sealer in the wheel wells. It stays more rubbery than bed liner. They went easy on 70-series with seam sealer but if you look at an 80/100/200-series they also sprayed it all over the underside of the Cruiser, mostly sticking to the seams. You can spray seam sealer, we will be, but the application gun is not cheap. Ours was $500. Perhaps you could rent one from a local auto body paint supply shop. You can also top coat seam sealer. It comes in tan, white, grey and black.

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[SNLC]

Still in the shop after 8pm. I am getting ready to build this 1HDFT for my own Cruiser. So after hours and weekends for that.

Been a long road on this FT but I am soon to load in these pistons with 400+hp (40+psi) conrods!

It’s for this 80-series UTE I am building for myself.

Anyways, enough about my stuff. I thought this was a cool picture.

If you have been following the build, especially from early on, it is a HUGE deal and very monumental to be putting this body in final primer! Man we are ready in this shop to move on with final mock up and get this Troopy into to the “final phase” of the build and on the road!

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[Crtroopy]

When i win the LOTTO my Troopy is coming to you!!! Amazing work!!

 

[SNLC]

Underside is primed, moving on to the inside now.

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