What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week?

[65swb45]

Mark- where did you get the color matched paint?

Jessie, I actually don’t remember the name of the place. It wasn’t well researched. I just googled 1969 dune beige paint and pulled the trigger on a small amount of paint to do some touch ups.
I’ll definitely post a review (and name) once it gets here and I have a chance to try it out.

 

[kenjera]

Jessie, I actually don’t remember the name of the place. It wasn’t well researched. I just googled 1969 dune beige paint and pulled the trigger on a small amount of paint to do some touch ups.
I’ll definitely post the review (and name) once it gets here and I have a chance to try it out.

Here's a question, my local paint shop was going to make me up some 'Beige' when he checked the paint code on the vin it came up as white..although it said Beige on the vin plate... l take you have to 'guess' the nearest match...he didn't have my paint colour on his charts..

 

[Jdc1]

Jessie, I actually don’t remember the name of the place. It wasn’t well researched. I just googled 1969 dune beige paint and pulled the trigger on a small amount of paint to do some touch ups.
I’ll definitely post a review (and name) once it gets here and I have a chance to try it out.

Dune Beige or Coronado- the late 60s early 70s paint ID is definitely difficult, especially with the years of oxidation and abuse.

 

[RevISK]

Dune Beige or Coronado- the late 60s early 70s paint ID is definitely difficult, especially with the years of oxidation and abuse.

I took my fuel door to a Tasco store in Austin. He did an alright match and put it in rattle cans.
Any half not crappy auto paint store should be able to match. Was about $25 a can.

Edit: He matched the inside of the door…

 

[65swb45]

I took my fuel door to a Tasco store in Austin. He did an alright match and put it in rattle cans.
Any half not crappy auto paint store should be able to match. Was about $25 a can.

Edit: He matched the inside of the door…

I SHOULD take the time to do this.
@Land Cruiser Junky did this for me 30 years ago with the lwb, and it worked out well. But that store closed down several years ago. He was their last customer, and they gave him one of their signs. He sent me a pic, but I can’t find it at the moment.

 

[RevISK]

I SHOULD take the time to do this.
@Land Cruiser Junky did this for me 30 years ago with the lwb, and it worked out well. But that store closed down several years ago. He was their last customer, and they gave him one of their signs. He sent me a pic, but I can’t find it at the moment.

Several Napa stores do it too?

 

[65swb45]

Several Napa stores do it too?

Prolly. IIRC, I hit the order button at like 4AM on a Sunday. Proto-typical 21st century impulse buy.

 

[majdomo]

Prolly. IIRC, I hit the order button at like 4AM on a Sunday. Proto-typical 21st century impulse buy.

I love me some Karma Cruiser patina

 

[RedOx]

Soapy water bath, acid bath, wire wheel, acid bath, brake cleaner, and waiting for a bit before primer. Amazing how many bugs these things can hold. Thinking of going with tan color.

 

[65swb45]

Here's a question, my local paint shop was going to make me up some 'Beige' when he checked the paint code on the vin it came up as white..although it said Beige on the vin plate... l take you have to 'guess' the nearest match...he didn't have my paint colour on his charts..

I have read dozens of posts like this over the decades, where even the promised color matches offered by some of the cruiser vendors as ‘exact’ matches are not. I have a can of supposedly 416 dune beige that @Biscuit left with me about 15 years that he bought from one of them. I used it to change the color of my hi lift jack handle from royal blue to something more neutral. It doesn’t look anything like the factory dune beige paint on Mike’s 74, or my ‘69. But it’s good enough for a jack handle.

 

[65swb45]

I love me some Karma Cruiser patina

There’s still going to be plenty of patina John.

 

[sleepycruiser]

Checking on my brake fluid…1964 with front disc and rear drums…is DOT 3 ok???

 

[charliemeyer007]

Who made the front calipers? Isn't all Dot3 and DOT4 compatible (same but higher BP than 3). Dot 5 is silicon based and doesn't mix with the other 2.

 

[sleepycruiser]

Who made the front calipers? Isn't all Dot3 and DOT4 compatible (same but higher BP than 3). Dot 5 is silicon based and doesn't mix with the other 2.

Not sure on the calipers. The lid says DOT 3 only after I checked.

 

[trainbufftony]

Dot 3 or dot4 will work and they can mix without consequence as long as you're not putting dot3 in a 4 system.
4 has a higher boiling point so it resists brake fade better than 3 does.
Use your gears not your brakes and brake fade likely will never be an issue for you either way.

 

[Jdc1]

Got hung up in back order purgatory on the ‘71 build. But took some time to patch a hole before I put more holes in the transmission tunnel @65swb45 had in his stash.

 

[Augustiron]

That's a lot of panel clips

 

[Jdc1]

That's a lot of panel clips

Nothing moves this way, plus it helps me with my spacing.

 

[SC-Cruiser]

Spent the afternoon working on my metal bending skills. Made up some new front corner brackets for my hood to replace the rusted out ones.
Need to do some more work on the hood before I weld them back in

 

[RevISK]

Spent the afternoon working on my metal bending skills. Made up some new front corner brackets for my hood to replace the rusted out ones.
Need to do some more work on the hood before I weld them back in

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Using a bead roller or hammer?
Looks good either way.