Looks pretty slick there Taco,geeze where do you get all the time to do this s&*t

looks good! have you gave the taco some love lately?

Well time is all there is when you're on strike lol. I set myself up pretty good for it though so I can afford to waste time here and there. All the steel is free so all Im wasting are cutting discs and wire.

Gonna get around to picking up some sort of job. A buddy has a landscaping thing and hes been calling.... yay lock stone. Probably be better than nothin though if it pans out.

As far as the taco goes, no, no I haven't loved it in a while. Haven't driven er really. Nothing much more to do really unless I start building the axles and I dont want to deplete the savings just yet. I do have all the parts save chet knuckles and rebuild kits....

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I took Dan's advice and cut out a portion of my skid so air could get to the ps cooler. Makes it look better too.






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Messed around w the hood today. I took it down to bare steel wherever there was a rust bubble then applied a thin coat of bondo, sanded for about 25 hrs, primed, rockerguardeded, and painted.

Turned out half assed. F'ed up in a couple spots but now I know what to do next time. I still have to do the clear but am going to wait till a get a few more panels done.

Circled all the bubbles.


The worst spot.


Bare steel.






Bondo.




Primer.



Rocker guarded the nose and painted it all.







Looks like

up close but stand 5 feet away its decent lol.

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The wifes been away for a week,HMMMMMMM

Well Pete came over and motivated me do dig into the body work again.

We ripped off the bumper, lights, signals, grille and markers so we could get at the sheet metal under the grille. This area was prepped while I welded the flare holes shut. We dealt w all the wheel well rust as well. Primer, rocker guard, paint (under the grille and lights) and another half assed job is off the list.

Cowl work from friday


Couple shots of the bumper while it was off



Hack job in progress












Before

After


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Well i managed to somewhat improve a huge rust blister on the ps rear door. Looks a little less like crap now. Did the bottom of the rear hatch and deleted the toyota emblem but kept the LC badge. There is also a small dent on the tailgate that got some lovin. Same as before, take down to steel, prime, bondo (satan invented that poop!!!), sand, bedline/paint. I kind of gave up on the bondo and it shows lol. No more rust and that was the main goal here.

Mounted the front plate to the bumper and removed one rear jump seat. Lubed ds door window.... I think thats it.

Before/during/after pics.




















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Good show man! looks like it's coming along.

So whens the lift going on?

Gotta love this pic. Flipflops and shorts while welding...

keep atter taco. lookin' good man