What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week?

[Augustiron]

Ah, thank you!!

Just follow the angle down to meet the horizontal bottom of the rocker. Easy peasey.

Interesting there is a gap between the vertical bottom section of the fender and the body by design, but I guess the step covers it.

 

[pb4ugo]

The fender bolts the frt of the step, the step then bolts along the bottom vertical part of the rocker and frame extentions.

 

[letterman52]

Only spent a few hours today working on it. Welded in the new rear bed end, cut out more of the drivers side pan, outside and inside kick panel, and made a rear sill cover from the sheet steel.

Build: 1973 FJ40 Major Payne

We have very similar bodywork projects underway. Looking good 👍

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[igotta40]

Never a bad idea.
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Is that one of Julie’s tops? I have one just like it.

 

[JVZii]

My idea of a super bowl cookout.

Baked land cruiser parts straight from the oven.

Delicious

 

[psmbfuer]

@psmbfuer

Hey Malleus, its been a while and thanks for the call out. I check this thread fairly often, but not recently enough to have seen post #39,496.

@Augustiron, regarding your question "I also have to extend the tub where it meets the fender", I have inserted two pics below, but there are more photos of repairs that I made to the lower cowl corner on post #24 of my 1977-fj40-rebuild-focus-on-custom-stainless-tub thread. I also believe I have a drawing of this patch panel and will post dimensions if I can find it.

 

[Grayscale]

Wheeling. Window down, kick vent open.

 

[psmbfuer]

Hey Malleus, its been a while and thanks for the call out. I check this thread fairly often, but not recently enough to have seen post #39,496.

@Augustiron, regarding your question "I also have to extend the tub where it meets the fender", I have inserted two pics below, but there are more photos of repairs that I made to the lower cowl corner on post #24 of my 1977-fj40-rebuild-focus-on-custom-stainless-tub thread. I also believe I have a drawing of this patch panel and will post dimensions if I can find it.
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I have found the drawing and added some dimensions to it. Pretty simple, but hopefully this helps. I should have also drawn a dimension line in the lower right corner to make it more clear the the side to side length of 13.25 includes a 1" lip that should be bent. All of the other bends are also 1". [Edit] - I have updated the drawing...

 

[psmbfuer]

Wheeling. Window down, kick vent open.

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Love this pic @Greyscale

 

[Catching Neutral]

@igotta40 ….Troa

 

[40Wanted]

Not nearly as much done lately as I would like, but figured I’d at least post my Aug 1976 on page 1976

 

[Buffchief]

Grandson approves of Pops new seats !

 

[aaron9252]

Grandson approves of Pops new seats !

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Where’d you source the seats?

 

[Buffchief]

Where’d you source the seats?

Sorry, actually seat covers. They are from Cruiser Corps. I had newish foam already .

 

[ASO544]

Got my top back on for winter… although I may have drug my feet and waited too late.

 

[Buffchief]

Got my top back on for winter… although I may have drug my feet and waited too late.

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Now that you know how to install, time to uninstall

 

[ASO544]

Now that you know how to install, time to uninstall

It was more sweat than I thought !!!

 

[nabbasi]

I picked up a well loved horse farm truck whose PO started a “restoration” before passing away. They’d owned it since 1985. It had been sitting in the lean to I (and a few good friends/ bad influences) pulled it out from under for who knows how long. Along with mice droppings and nest material, the ashtray was still full of his salems (even found a few still in the pack on the floor), and a bunch of the parts I had noticed were missing when I went to look at it last weekend.

Even though my 1967 has a 2F and 4 speed, the 1978 seems very, very different. While I originally wanted parts off of it, it’s so complete that it deserves to be revived and live on. So that’s the plan now.

Before/ after the hotsy bath.

 

[letterman52]

Test fit the rear sill cover I made. Waiting on the rear sill itself to show up. Discovered another glorious hole that needed to be filled on the tub corner. Cut a new drivers side floorboard and started stitching it in. I’ll finish the drivers side panels tomorrow. Inside kick panel will be fitted and bent and then I’ll put the outside kick panel onto that piece.

Build: 1973 FJ40 Major Payne

We have very similar bodywork projects underway. Looking good 👍

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[45Dougal]

I stripped off some paint, and welded a few more cracks in my fenders, but didn't take any photos..
Then I stumbled across this 43 for sale in Nairobi... is this 3 way fuel changeover oem?