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[dogfishlake]

The plan is to go white with the 80. I've looked at a ton of options, and keep coming back to white. It really is the best color for a flare-less 80. This build will be my ultimate 80. A white Poverty Pack-esq build with a big LS and fresh seals.

The sunroof fill is well so far. I cut a sheet of flat 16ga steel to the exact shape of the cutout. It fit with less than 1mm on all sides. I got the whole plate tacked down with ~2" spacing. The flat plate curved really well to match the contours of the roof. Then I started filling in the tacks every 4", doing one half of the roof at a time. After a couple hours of that I took the grinder to it, and ran another tack over any pinhole I found. I may run another bead from the inside, and cap it off with some seam sealer. The roof will need a little body work, but it's hiding under a Bowfin rack, so it probably doesn't have to be perfect.

I left the sunroof sheet metal structure in-place to support / reinforce the roof for now, and to be a heat spreader for welding. I have the two OEM front non-sunroof support crossmembers on order. Once they arrive, I plan to cut out the sunroof bezel and panel bond the stock supports as factory would have. I also have a set of factory non-sunroof headliner bows, and a new headliner on order.

I can't find anyone that's done it the "right" way. I'm hoping everything fits as I'd like it to.

-Rob

Very nice. I didn't realize the headliner was still available.
Couldn't agree more on the white. Best color
Those trucks were all single stage white. Base/clear on all other colors but must be because of the simplicity in it for the rest of the world. I did my 60 "Chunk" in single stage to keep it the way Toyota did it

 

[dogfishlake]

Plenty of shine regardless

 

[RivMan]

Very nice. I didn't realize the headliner was still available.
Couldn't agree more on the white. Best color
Those trucks were all single stage white. Base/clear on all other colors but must be because of the simplicity in it for the rest of the world. I did my 60 "Chunk" in single stage to keep it the way Toyota did it

The headliner isn’t available OEM, but there’s an aftermarket headliner supplier with the pattern. I plan to add zippers to it like my fire truck, so I can still access the ceiling.

-Rob

 

[TCEd]

Small project but done and pleased. Escape Gear 100 seat covers installed. They fit well and I'll tighten them later after the material relaxes. Two banana job.

 

[dogfishlake]

Small project but done and pleased. Escape Gear 100 seat covers installed. They fit well and I'll tighten them later after the material relaxes. Two banana job.

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Those look great!

 

[69LC]

Long drill week at Selfridge and I brought some 17x9 steel wheels and some 6-spoke steel wheels to cut apart and mash together for my 40.

 

[RivMan]

Off to the paint shop she goes, but not before test fitting a little bling.

-Rob

 

[dogfishlake]

Off to the paint shop she goes, but not before test fitting a little bling.

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-Rob

Those look great. Nomad wheels, right?

 

[RivMan]

Those look great. Nomad wheels, right?

Yeah, 17x8.5 et0 Nomad Arvos, custom paint (they don’t sell them in silver).

-Rob

 

[69LC]

I was able to borrow the plasma booth at work yesterday and knocked the remaining Isuzu wheels apart.

I have one hoop cleaned up and all four centers prepped and waiting for me to find a shop to precision turn them.

The centers will sit just about 1/2”-1” inside the recess.

 

[69LC]

No pics because it’s boring, but I just unloaded what was 600 lbs of wet tube sand out of my taco to finally have an open truck bed. I’d guess that all 12 bags were 75 lbs each... The sand will go into the next raised garden beds.

 

[69LC]

Last night when my son was waiting to start work (United tech Denver), he started texting me about keeping our 72 and doing a quick revival/restomod thing with it. So I'm digging in with the LC community to get some feelers out for what we may be considering and asking his mother's "blessing" to do. @cheezypoof found me a connection to potentially get a 2f for it. I'm reaching out to some of the tornado Alley cruiser people for other parts.

We originally bought it to be a father/daughter project when my daughter was in HS, but she lost interest and the truck has sat in various places of storage since. It needs some tin work and likely a frame swap, but I have a spare. I already swapped fj60 front knuckles and brakes on it years ago and have a prototype pair of HD stainless knuckle wiper retainers on it.

I'll update with pics later.

Who knows? Maybe this will go and we move it to CO to live at the kid's place so we have something to drive and wheel out there.

Edit: Found the old thread Father-Daughter 1972 fj40 revival - https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/father-daughter-1972-fj40-revival.775391/#post-8868061

 

[kbahus]

Been busy working on friend’s stuff. Got the square body transmission installed but it didn’t run that great. Ended up rebuilding the carb and a tune up while it was here. Also been rebuilding some Mercruy carbs for a outboard.

 

[69LC]

Cleaning out the 96 to prep for sale and found this.

 

[69LC]

Took my partially fabbed front bumper off and installed an ugly stock unit. Yeucch…

 

[Sandroad]

Took my partially fabbed front bumper off and installed an ugly stock unit. Yeucch…

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My favorite part of those photos is the 10 lb sledge hammer.

 

[69LC]

I only had to tap the sides of the frame boxes a bit each time with tension on the strap from my taco.

 

[whitec13]

A true Michigander, a bottle of blaster and a torch. I had mine out today for a power steering job on my 100… not a fun one.

 

[69LC]

Yeah I heated up the weld nuts in the frame before hitting them with PB Blaster. I didn’t break any of the fragile bolts.

 

[whitec13]

Yeah I heated up the weld nuts in the frame before hitting them with PB Blaster. I didn’t break any of the fragile bolts.

Not how my tale goes. Broke two skid plate bolts and had to concede that without a way more in-depth operation and potentially a new steering rack, I was not getting out one of the hard lines. So I played it safe and replaced the soft half of it and the high pressure line. Now to bleed it all and put it back on the ground.