Engineer8000
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What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week?
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Big morning.
Got it down on its own four wheels.
Pushed out and turned around while giving kid an introduction to driving lesson.
And now for the last of the body work, and the only rust repair needed.
Got it down on its own four wheels.
Pushed out and turned around while giving kid an introduction to driving lesson.
And now for the last of the body work, and the only rust repair needed.
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The openings on the inside of the door are mostly for access to the internal door handle mechanism and the latch. However, I do sometimes use them as storage, they are a pretty good place to store small things like some suntanning oil or dry bikinis to change into after a swim.
Well, surfboards and Land Cruisers happen to be the two most abundant things that seem to be always multiplying at my house!
Sadly, I only own/use one of those surfboards (a 9ft longboard)… the rest are families, visiting friends or just happen to find their way to my garage (much like the Land Cruisers!).
The tailgate we put in was a home made one we fabbed up. Since this Dune beige 40 was always going to go topless here in Hawaii, we made a bolt on tailgate (bolted to the factory hinge areas and to the bottom door latch area). It’s very strong and was made to bolt a fuel can carrier as well as the stock license plate holder.
Then painted it to match the body color and then rhino lined the inside to match the interior bed. Very happy with how it turned out, and, it was basically free because we used scrap pieces of metal and some extra stock door hinges to make it.
MAR FJ40
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Today's fun. Had boat repair shop do the glass work to repair major holes. Now time to sand, skim coat of filler in some places, sand again and ready for primer then top coat.
Talk about "Super Handy"
I counted 4 beautiful LandCruisers ...and possibly 20 boards!
SPECTACULAR
Moved a hole
I started my door repairs. The cutting out of the old wasn't hard, even getting the panels trimmed. Didn't seem that difficult, but damn welding sheet metal is difficult. I was trying to do stick welding but think I'm going to invest in a MIG tomorrow.
I was told to look for small wire ,025 and use gas for best results.
035 works just fine.
RevISK
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If you are seasoned, sure.
Smaller wire really helps to learn to weld thin metal.
You don't want to weld it....you want to tack it....here, there, somewhere else but not here again for a bit.
For Body sheet metal a 110v welder, .023 solid wire and c25 gas.
I would hate to use anything else. ( Thicker solid wire or flux core)
My last project I tacked them with the MIG with that setup and TIG welded them solid for fun.
I would hate to use anything else. ( Thicker solid wire or flux core)
My last project I tacked them with the MIG with that setup and TIG welded them solid for fun.
You should be able to use a 110 unit. .023 with gas at a minimum. I tried 023 but my machine didn't want to feed it. It runs 030 just fine. I would never have considered 035. I use that when I'm working on heavy plate.
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RevISK
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there are a lot of expensive commercial-grade models out there…. but this one works great for me at a much lower price point (and even cheaper when its on one of their coupon sales)
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Lifted the top beam in the back into place.
It was a nightmare today. I'd do one good weld and then blow 3 holes in it.