Steve's FJ Body Rebuild and Frame Resto

Done in a ONE car garage!

Site last updated: July 5th, 2005

Steve has decided to share his experience de-rusting and fixing the body and frame on his 1971 FJ40. Follow along as he works in his garage to stop the red death from taking his Cruiser!

Fig. 1 Just Hanging around!	Fig. 2	Fig. 3 Rust Bullet on Frame	Fig. 4 Second Coat of RB
Fig. 5 Getten'er Done	Fig. 6 New Camera With Flash!	Fig. 7 Bottom 1	Fig. 8 Bottom 2
Fig. 9 Bottom 3	Fig. 10 Bottom 4	Fig. 11 Bottom 5	Fig. 12 Bottom 6
Fig. 13 Bottom 7	Fig. 14 Bottom 8	Fig. 15 Panel Repair	Fig. 16 Done Scraping 1
Fig. 17 Done Scraping 2	Fig. 18 Done Scraping 3	Fig. 19 Done Scraping 4	Fig. 20 Done Scraping 5
Fig. 21 Primed!	Fig. 22 Covering Bare Metal	Fig. 23 Putting the Body back on	Fig. 24 Hand Fabricated Sill 'Horns'
Fig. 25 Ain't I purty?	Fig. 26 Quarter Panel Repair	Fig 27 Lots-o-parts to paint	Fig. 28 Hard work is paying off!
Fig. 29 Under hood	Fig. 30 Re-tapping hinge bolt threads

Doing the Top

Fig. 1 Knocking out the rivets	Fig. 2 Drip Edge removed	Fig. 3 Hmmm... a few rust holes	Fig. 4 Removing Glue	Fig. 5 1,2,3,4... layers...
Fig. 6 New CCOT liner	Fig. 7 New liner and drip edge	Fig. 8 Painting top and drip edge	Fig. 9 Painting top

It's Done!!! (For Now...)

Fig 1 Before	Fig. 3 Before	Fig. 5 Before
Fig. 2 After	Fig. 4 After	Fig. 6 After

Well check it out folks! It's finally done after many many hours of hard work in a cramped space...