What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week?

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The drawback to doing this on the ground (as opposed to chest height) was that the tube took on a wind as I drew it around the radius of the drum, so I had to ‘unwind’ it in my handy-dandy trail-ready bench vice.
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Voila, the second tubetop is bent, ready for welding.
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For reference, this is the first tube, the one I made and installed 15 years ago. You’ll have to take my word for it, but it looks exactly the same now as it did then. It’s SoCal, so there hasn’t even been much surface oxidation.
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