Wilma's Buildup thread - FJ45LV

[rapovt]

Looking real good Jason

 

[fogblanket]

thanks
when I stated this I thought I needed a bunch of electic sanders. and you turned me on to the various sized hand flexible block sanders and I haven't looked back since
thanks it has made a huge difference
jason
ps. I am in Niagra Falls tonight cruiser signficance being this is the area Fox first bought Wilma

 

[foxfab]

yep. thats where she crossed back into the usa again.

I still remember the border guard saying.. so, you were just driving along on vacation and you happened upon this truck, RIGHT?

thanks
when I stated this I thought I needed a bunch of electic sanders. and you turned me on to the various sized hand flexible block sanders and I haven't looked back since
thanks it has made a huge difference
jason
ps. I am in Niagra Falls tonight cruiser signficance being this is the area Fox first bought Wilma

 

[fogblanket]

I had 6 hours off and on in the garge on Monday was able to get the passenger side door sill replaced and nearly smooth. I ofcourse did not take pics until it is in its current state. but I basically cut out half of the sill and replace it in sections. took longer than I thought it would and prolly that it should have and has taken a bit of time to get it all leveled out but it is slolid and I am happy with it.

 

[Cruiser_Nerd]

Looks great Jason! By the time you get efficient with the metal work and are happy with the amount of time you spend on it, you'll be done. Keep the Armor-All away from anything you expect to be painting.

 

[fogblanket]

i was wondering if anone would comment on the armour all. that was where i tossed it after I cleaned my wife's car. you can tell where my heart was while cleaning her dash.
it is crazy what collects in wilma there is so much flat space and my garage is not huge i have to clean it out every other eek and put everything away. last week i found my sare keys a fly reel and some fly's 3 pair of welding glooves 6 pair of rubber glooves and 4 empty water bottles. I will be so disappointed when I don't have the storage space anymore

 

[fogblanket]

its been a week since I posted but i have been busy. the floors are in and I have spent 3-4 hours almost every night finishing the sills then sanding and priming and sanding and getting them reall smoth and even. I am hapy with how they came out in the pics you can see I need to put my last coat of primer on but everything is in and solid I spent today doing some last sanding, you can never do enough, and then I seam sealed the bottom seams and got everything cleaned up and now just need to shoot some bedliner on the exposed areas and the body work is done
well it is until. . .
I also put on my widened OEM wheels and 285 mt's they are going to work great and i will have plenty of room to articulate

 

[fogblanket]

oh and anyone still on the fence about getting a set of these floors they are worth every penny. the fit is perfect and welding this steel is like butta its really nice
Jason

 

[fogblanket]

made a bunch of progress last night. I shot the rest of the underside with the SEM truck bedliner. boy am I glad I sprayed the floors before I installed them I just had to spray the seems instead of having it drip on me while I sprayed the whole floor section.
then I figured what the hell and layed a couple coats of the color on the inside of the truck. and a couple shots o clear on top. it came out nice. i know I have a lot of inside work to do but I wanted to get the floors all sealed up and on a somewhat sad note I am really never going to see the floors after the phatmat and carpet kit goes down so I am not terribly worried about messin up the paint job. I think like spraying the bedliner on the bottom before the floors went in it will be far easier to touch up areas on the inside than it would be to shoot the whole thing. we that is my story and I am sticking too it.
i got the gas tank up out of the basement and that will be the next project getting it installed and running the gas lines any tips??

 

[apeterson]

is that color yellow... or just bad lighting... looking good!!! why not SEM the inside also??

 

[fogblanket]

looks yellow doesn't it?? well its a combination bad lighting bad camera and bad picture taker, and it being a bit cream in color. it according to Treeroot is the stock color used. I have ordered it a couple different times now and and it keeps coming the same way so. . I am happy with it and it looks good with the river blue. but the lily white in person is much more of a cream color with a tint of yellow. makes you wonder if this truely is the stock color it sure did bleech out and is everyone duplicating a bleeched out color when they paint there trucks. food for thought.
I am not SEM bedling the inside because I plan on phat matting it and then putting a carpet kit on top. didn't see the need to use bedliner as well.
jason

 

[treerootCO]

I am still researching the stock color. We were pretty sure Lilly White was used on the LVs but the more I look, I think it was the white used on the FJ55s.

Those floors look great jason. Keep up the good work.

 

[fogblanket]

thanks Mike I keep making progress. I went home at lunch today and was looking at the color and it is alot more tan thn the yellow in the picture. it does have a yellow ish cast to it but much more washed yellow than what my pictures show. I will drag my hood out of the basement this week sometime and shot a pic of it in the sun. but by no means is it close to cygnus white. regardless I like the color combo and they are toyota colors form that era so I am fine with it. I did an illustartor drawing of what Wilma will look like when done I have it next to my computer at work to keep me sane. the color below is a much closer interpretation of it. I guess you could call it a tan-ny pale yellow.
If anyone wants a copy of the .ai or .cdr file just let me know all I would want for payment is a copy of what ever you make with it

 

[Leaping Deer]

Jason, Looking good. That should be your new avitar.

 

[foxfab]

now that the floors are in, when ya dropping it back off to its rightful owner?

 

[Mikesta]

now that the floors are in, when ya dropping it back off to its rightful owner?

That was funny.

 

[treerootCO]

now that the floors are in, when ya dropping it back off to its rightful owner?

Call me when you are ready for another LV. You have to come get it though;p

 

[fogblanket]

wow action on my thread. . .

Jason Great idea made it so.

Mike I highly doubt Mr. Fox will take you up on that anytime soon he has been meaning to get his 25 back for 9 months now and that is only 10 miles away.

Mike come and get it.

seriously thanks guys its been alot of work but it is coming together
jason

 

[Sporin]

You need to make me one of those drawings of my piggie.

I really like the cream & river blue you've used. Nice choice.

I didn't even go in the garage last night... after busting ass the last few days straight I took a night off. Back at it tonight.

 

[fogblanket]

ok it has been awhile since I last updated my thread. alot going on and not as much time on the lv for awhile. I went to the Fall Gatheirng in my fj62 and rooftop tent on SOA-ed 1/4 trailer and had a blast. anyway I promised my girls I would build a tree house as soon as daddy got back from camping. so that took like 3 week ends and my nights were spent getting our rental unit ready for the next tenant the previous tenents left it a mess and broke a bunch of stuff. how do you brake a 1 year old toilet bowl??
anyway the tree fort is just about done and I have been starting to sneak back into the garage. I have gotten the body mounted onto the frame. all new body mounts it sits higher than I thought it would but that is ok I like it. and i started gathering the parts for rebuilding my front axle. I went with the Marlin package with there new seals. and I went with the sky widening kit so I can widen the front axle to the same width of a fj62 rear axle (future project) I just need to pick up some mini truck ifs rotors and get everything in and start the rebuild. my front axle has disk brakes on it so it already is not stock but I am wondering what I will find when I tear it open. ie. if I will need to update the knuckles as well. like everything else on theis project won't know until I tear it open
yesterday I I pulled off the old oil pan and installed a new (used) clean and unbent oilpan and new cork gasket. surpisingly that job went alot easier than I expected. I taped off some more areas to be jammed will hopefully be able to get the jamming done this week will take some pics later in the week when there is actually something of interest.
Jason