After 6 months it's finally starting to look like a cruiser again, feels great!

Test fitting the new parts before i start welding in the rear sheet metal.

Christof

another pic

its looking pretty good:D

:flipoff2: Wish it was that easy, what tyres are those i guess 35's, like how they look!

And now get back to work instead of shopping my pics :D

Christof

Congrats!

Morgan

Originally posted by Diesel_Cruiser
:flipoff2: Wish it was that easy, what tyres are those i guess 35's, like how they look!

And now get back to work instead of shopping my pics :D

Christof


:flipoff2: I kept trying to get the color right:mad: then I gave up....I think the tyres are 38's I chopped them off a J**p

Still have a long way to go, but it feels great to have gotten this far. Before i started this i knew nothing about Land Cruiser's, but with the help of PBB and LCML it was "easy".

Stuff I already did; homemade rear bumper, homemade rear X member, shackle reversal, 3" longer shackles.
I'm on a very tight budget and try to fabricate everything myself to keep the cost of this frame off as low as possible. Next thing i want to fab up myself is homemade motor mounts, i tought of using polyutherane bushings as in my leaf springs, but these will probably let through too much vibes (have the 2B diesel engine) and since it's my daily driver i wan't to have at least a little bit of comfort, anyone got any other ideas?? Let me know.

I'm now restoring the tub wich was rusted badly, since i have zero bodywork experience this is another big challenge for me.

Christof

way to be self sufficent, I dream of filling a garage with air tools and working on Cruisers;) maybe in 20 years when I retire:D

thanks for saving that 40 from the rust demons:beer: here's to ya...

I don't have a big garage full of tools, only expensive tool i have is a 180 amp Mig welder, I am doing the whole frame off with an axle grinder, jig saw and a bunch of old hand tools and offcourse a BFH.

Hurted myself more than i want to remember, but you have to make sacrifices to make your cruiser look good and wheel well!

Christof

[i]Next thing i want to fab up myself is homemade motor mounts, i tought of using polyutherane bushings as in my leaf springs, but these will probably let through too much vibes (have the 2B diesel engine) and since it's my daily driver i wan't to have at least a little bit of comfort, anyone got any other ideas?? Let me know.
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check out mercedes benz motor mounts from an early 80's 300 series motor. their shape and size lend well to custom applications, they are plentiful and cheap at junkyards and are designed by retentive germans. we are using them for our mercedes diesel swaps and they are key in reducing the vibrations caused by the diesel.
if you get the whole engine mount out of a donor benz you can use the little factory shocks that come attached to the mounts. overkill but super trick and very effective.

later
-luke@4x4labs

Nice work there Diesel_Cruiser.. Really looking cool.... And fj junkie .. That sounds cool.. I have already started looking for the pair of shocks you are talking about here in Pakistan.. Would love to reduce the vibes from the 2B in my cherokee...:D

Bending the rear quarter panel the cheap way :D , works fine. Used 2.5mm steel.

What do you guys think of my awesome wheels, even got the split rims!! :flipoff2:

Fawked up something but don't really know what, the rear of the fenderwell is 4cm higher than the front, don't think this is stock:D ?

The plus side to this is that any water in my rear tub will flow right out :) .

Christof

Please don't paint your hardtop all black like that "doctored" photo!

Hi Christof,

I think you forgot to make the little bent upwards to the "old" part of the tub.

Take a look at Sealand safari's web site, for a picture

click here (http://www.sealandsafari.com/pages/acc_spec_inox_caisse_arr.html)

Hope this helps


Mark

can you give me a step by steep of how you made the rear qurter paniles? They look really good and i would like to do somthing simmiler to mine. thanks alot :jeep3:

Ok, glad to help somebody out, instead of me being helped out by all of the other members :D

Step 1: I made a cardboard jig for the rocker panels.

Step 2: Used that jig and then cut the complete panel in one piece, from the firewall all the way back to the rear door. Used and angle grinder for that.

Step 3: Put the panel in place and then spotwelded the panel until just before the bend in the rear hardtop rails.

Step 4: Then put a ratchet around it and tightened it until i had my bend, was very easy.

Step 5: weld, cool, weld, cool, weld, cool, weld, cool, weld, cool, weld, cool, grind, grind, grind...:D

The ratchet method worked good for me, but since i first put my quarterpanels in and only then my inner fenders, the turn in the quarter panel wasn't perfect, it bended inward towards the bottom of the panel, I have a hydraulic body work repair kit and I was able to push it back out and get it straigth.

Afterwards i realized that i worked backwards, first put your bed in then put the rear fenders in and then put the rearquarterpanels in, that way the quarterpanel will bend around the hard top rail AND bend around the fender, that will give you a straight quarter panel.

Hope you understand what i am saying 'caus technical English isn't easy for me.

Christof