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@TWILLY , your trip "photo essays" are inspiring. Always bringing the stoke. Chapeau, sir!
Certainly not a monumental “thing I’ve done to my Land Cruiser” this weekend. But, I replaced the broken rear nameplate on my ‘96 FZJ80. The most challenging part was the removal of 23 year old adhesive residue. Used Goof Off initially, but the effort was not worth the result. Instead, I used a drill attachment I’d found on Amazon and my 12V cordless drill. Worked pretty well!
The only issue was that I’d polished about a US quarter-sized bit of paint clean off the metal. This was due to my leaning too hard on this section with a plastic scraper...
Otherwise, the drill method worked pretty great. Especially for a noob with little (zero) experience on body work.
The second issue was lining up the new nameplate. I eyeballed the placement and didn’t measure. Though, if you consider measuring by touch and feel; I guess I did.
I think it turned out well, all things considered. Figure that the arid southwest won’t have much negative effect on bare metal underneath industrial adhesive; not worried about corrosion.
AES Industries 51823 Smart Eraser Pad (Made in the USA) with Drill Adapter Arbor Made for Efficiently Removing Decals, Vinyl Graphic, Pinstripes, Adhesive and Double Faced Trim Tape
Amazon product ASIN B00488DDB8
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Where did you get the emblem? Noticed my grandson's 94 is missing half the tailgate emblem.
I ordered from cruiserparts . com
I shopped most of the sites that I know of and they had the most reasonable price.
I was up there with my quad last Sunday a week ago before all the rain started and noticed same. strange though as there was so little traffic on the trail that day. We saw 3 vehicles in about 4 hours.Spontaneously ran Table Mesa to Seven Springs this past Sunday. I haven't been on that trail in about 3 years and it was a mess. A lot of rock has been washed down the hills after the fires and now is covering the road in a few sections. If not having caught up to a built Tacoma also running solo I probably would've doubled back and called it a day, but we went for it. New River wash was flowing and up to the bottom of the doors and there were two other very rocky water crossings. Unfortunately I bashed my passenger rocker panel getting through a pile of huge slippery rocks covering the trail (that's what I get for putting off buying sliders). It was conveniently located just after a tire soaking mud bog Still a beautiful day out and the dogs had fun but I wouldn't recommend doing this trail solo after a rain. It was pretty sketchy and took about 5 hours.
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Typical the gas gauge is almost empty