What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week?
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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.
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.
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.
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Build: 1973 FJ40 Major Payne
We have very similar bodywork projects underway. Looking good 👍
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Is that one of Julie’s tops? I have one just like it.
My idea of a super bowl cookout.
Baked land cruiser parts straight from the oven.
Delicious
Baked land cruiser parts straight from the oven.
Delicious
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.
Wheeling. Window down, kick vent open.
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...
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Love this pic @Greyscale
@igotta40 ….Troa
Not nearly as much done lately as I would like, but figured I’d at least post my Aug 1976 on page 1976 
Grandson approves of Pops new seats !
Where’d you source the seats?
Sorry, actually seat covers. They are from Cruiser Corps. I had newish foam already .
Now that you know how to install, time to uninstallGot my top back on for winter… although I may have drug my feet and waited too late.
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It was more sweat than I thought !!!Now that you know how to install, time to uninstall
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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.
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.