so i thought i would give this thing its own thread. i picked it up from Jim with the original intention of stripping the lift and reselling the rest.... but its proved to be pretty solid truck, so I've convinced my friend chris he needs to buy it.
we've spent the last two weekend working on it, last weekend we patched up all the small rust spots on the roof and on the back pillars. and then gave the truck an aerosol job. used krylon camouflage series, its the same paint i used on my brown toyota pickup. it sprays nice and dries in 30 seconds, plus it remains completely workable after the fact for additional body work. its pretty limited on the colours though, just black brown green and tan. so we went with tan as its closest to sort f a cruiser colour.
today was cab mount day, the 2/4 ratchet strap combo wasn't holding out too great so i figured it needed some more steel. the right side was the better of the 2, i basically made a U-channel that picked up on the front and back of the cab mount structure.
the left side was a little worse, i had to bring the cab mount patch all the way up to the floor to find new metal. i also patched a good section of floor in the same area.
i figure it will make it easier for rust repair to shorten the rear quarters to just below the body line, that part was probably the hardest part on my black 70. ill just cap the bottom of it and then build the bumper to wrap around to fill the gap.
heres evidence of chris actually working for once. makes it easier when you can task someone else with the welding prep.
heres the trucks doing the land cruiser salute
thats all for now, tomorrow will be floor patch day.
we've spent the last two weekend working on it, last weekend we patched up all the small rust spots on the roof and on the back pillars. and then gave the truck an aerosol job. used krylon camouflage series, its the same paint i used on my brown toyota pickup. it sprays nice and dries in 30 seconds, plus it remains completely workable after the fact for additional body work. its pretty limited on the colours though, just black brown green and tan. so we went with tan as its closest to sort f a cruiser colour.
today was cab mount day, the 2/4 ratchet strap combo wasn't holding out too great so i figured it needed some more steel. the right side was the better of the 2, i basically made a U-channel that picked up on the front and back of the cab mount structure.
the left side was a little worse, i had to bring the cab mount patch all the way up to the floor to find new metal. i also patched a good section of floor in the same area.
i figure it will make it easier for rust repair to shorten the rear quarters to just below the body line, that part was probably the hardest part on my black 70. ill just cap the bottom of it and then build the bumper to wrap around to fill the gap.
heres evidence of chris actually working for once. makes it easier when you can task someone else with the welding prep.
heres the trucks doing the land cruiser salute
thats all for now, tomorrow will be floor patch day.
