What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week? (47 Viewers)

[letterman52]

Pulled the tub up and over with my hardtop contraption and sprayed the bottom of the tub with color matched Monstaliner. Coated the gas tank cover and Aquala tailgate pieces

 

[Living in the Past]

Making progress on my resto/build it like I want it/I’ve lost my mind kinda thing…. Installed the Centerforce clutch and flywheel kit. Hopefully will have the motor in and secured for the final time here shortly!

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Have you checked the clearance on the rear motor mount bolts to the tub floor? Have zero experience with that V8 style rear motor mount but looks like it will be very close to the floor.

 

[Godwin]

Coat of Monstaliner in the tub. The tint is Lady in Red and I'll go over it with some Freeborn Red paint to tone it down.

 

[Robs76fj40]

Have you checked the clearance on the rear motor mount bolts to the tub floor? Have zero experience with that V8 style rear motor mount but looks like it will be very close to the floor.

Sure did. I mocked up everything with the tub on the frame, tacked it all up then pulled everything for final weld and paint. Good catch though. It's tight!

 

[Jetlander]

Replace my radiator fan clutch, flushed and refilled the radiator to fix a slight overheating problem. Drove 75 miles in stop and go Houston traffic to test it. All fixed up now.

 

[DangerNoodle]

Got some sliders built today. Now to attach them to the frame....

Got the rear amby doors somewhat aligned. What a PITA by yourself.

New CB antenna mount.

Got my additional backup lights mounted, finally.

Still a lot to do, but looking more complete.

 

[ceylonfj40nut]

Got some sliders built today. Now to attach them to the frame....

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Got the rear amby doors somewhat aligned. What a PITA by yourself.


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New CB antenna mount.

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Got my additional backup lights mounted, finally.

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Still a lot to do, but looking more complete.

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Is your CB antenna secured up top? I of not it will scratch your nice paint job.

 

[1911]

Is your CB antenna secured up top? I of not it will scratch your nice paint job.

Was just about to reply and say the same thing. Those fiberglass antennas are flexy, and especially with that spring mount on the bottom, it's going to be slapping your rear quarter and top hard when you get off-pavement. You could put a tennis ball on the top half somewhere, but it's still going to be a nuisance. It will also work better the higher you can get it.

 

[DangerNoodle]

Is your CB antenna secured up top? I of not it will scratch your nice paint job.

Was just about to reply and say the same thing. Those fiberglass antennas are flexy, and especially with that spring mount on the bottom, it's going to be slapping your rear quarter and top hard when you get off-pavement. You could put a tennis ball on the top half somewhere, but it's still going to be a nuisance. It will also work better the higher you can get it.

It will be, once my top is on.

 

[greenbeast]

Finally got time to plug away at the yellow 40. After rear drums rebuilt and all new brake lines on her I put her rear shoes on.
tackled some of the engine today with installing the desmogged carb from city racer. Attached all the carb linkages. Installed newly powder coated breather.
Big thanks to my good friend @swamp-thing for letting me keep his 40 at the house as a template for what goes where.

 

[AussieHJCruza]

Wrestled with this precarious arrangement - 2H out to fix an oil leak and get the front of the chassis properly cleaned before paint but she may not go back in, got a line on a reasonable 12HT...
Time for some motor mounts too

 

[Trigger6]

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[macdaddy59]

Cleaned up and painted the axles to get them ready to install new knuckle rebuild components and then attach to the frame.

 

[macdaddy59]

Got the frame back from hot dip galvanizing. They did a great job and man did it come out good.

 

[macdaddy59]

Prepped the frame for paint. I ran a tap through all of the bolt holes to clean them up. Used a flap dip to take off some excess galvanized scale and deposits. Sanded and used a wire wheel over the entire frame to scuff it up for the primer.

 

[macdaddy59]

Once the frame was prepped for paint I used a 2 part epoxy primer with several coats to cover the galvanization.

 

[macdaddy59]

More primer pics

 

[macdaddy59]

I painted the frame with 3 coats of satin black 2K urethane to finish it off. It is now ready to move back into the garage and install the axles and suspension to start to put things back together.

 

[Dagha Boy]

The macrame is almost as nice as the frame. But that frame is damned nice.

 

[macdaddy59]

More finished frame pics