Hi folks! Anyone doing any interesting projects? Here's a hardtop i've been restoring bit by bit
Paddy.
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Hi folks! Anyone doing any interesting projects? Here's a hardtop i've been restoring bit by bit
Paddy.
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Great craic watching these lads
In other news, i had a stab at faux chrome the other day. Got the stuff from stardust colours in france. The idea is you put down a gloss black 2k lacquer first and leave it to cure fully. After about a week, without degreasing etc, you heat the surface gently with a gas torch and straight after apply the chrome in light coats leaving about 1min between coats for solvent evaporation. The result is decent and i've since learned to get better results. See photo attached. Not bad for a salvage operation to get by for a while while one builds the courage to shell out forIMG-20240512-WA0008.jpeg stainless bumpers!🤑
This one is quite mundane but nevertheless we need to keep the support vehicles going too don't we! This is a 04 Landcruiser used at home as a work vehicle, we've had it for 20 years, from new, they aren't a brilliant vehicle this generation of Landcruiser they've many stupid design issues which when you have them for 20 years and 300k miles of hard work tend to all appear at one time or another. The chassis rot very badly on them, sometimes quite new ones, this one was recently condemned with a rotten chassis section. It's near the end of its life now but maybe a couple of years left in it and it's useful so I repaired the rear xmember and a couple of brackets for the bump stops. Mostly the rear xmember was rotten but there was some rot in the chassis legs as well so I made up pieces of box section the same dimensions as the internal dimensions of the chassis legs and drifted them 150mm up into the chassis and then plug welded them in place along their length and fully welded at the cut back ends of the chassis. Was able to buy a Xmember so that saved a lot of effort, I cut out the bump stop mounts and made new ones out of some scrap box section cut offs and welded them in, all worked out OK, it's a workhorse not a show pony so just hand painted and finished.😀 Ready to tow classic car if needed!
You are very modest re your restos/repairs/new chassis mfg so I won't praise you otherwise you will get a swell head.....sufficient to mention your ability to assess, plan, chop/cut/weld etc a project And do same quickly and precisely is worthy of a Gold Star ⭐️.
In same boat re work vehicles, 04Hilux one careful owner since new, only a toddler @ 179,000miles, orig clutch speaks volumes about the Toyota build quality back then, and no mech issues at all. Rusty chassis the weak link, which rust from within. Both chassis legs over the rear axle plated and welded last few years, handier as the rear tub lifts off but still a bugger. But like ones right arm, pulls transporter, takes 1 1/2 tonnes sand, gravel, RSJs, lumber, sheets etc - invaluable and irreplaceable, and does 32mpg. Me thinks these old girls are actually rising in value!
What else would ya be up to on a BH monday! Nice tony!
Rust mining
Few touchups on the the 7V8. Getting ready for TRINTERNATIONAL. And no rattle cans were used . Too expensive for me 😀😀
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