{"id":315,"date":"2025-04-06T12:17:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T12:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/?p=315"},"modified":"2025-07-18T20:59:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:59:31","slug":"1976-land-cruiser-fj-55-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/1976-land-cruiser-fj-55-project\/","title":{"rendered":"1976 Land Cruiser FJ-55 project."},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend offered me a truck that he’s had on his TODO list for over 20 years.\u00a0 This truck has been sitting in his car-port, covered in various bits of detritus.\u00a0 After almost an hour of excavation, I was finally able to see the truck.\u00a0 Code-name:\u00a0 Terrible Idea.<\/p>\n

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What are my plans for it?\u00a0 I’ll save that for a later post because I’m not entirely clear yet.\u00a0 First order of business is to deal with rust and missing metal.\u00a0 Its biggest problem is the A-pillars that the front doors are mounted to are completely rotted.<\/p>\n

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The first decision I’ve made is not to do a museum level restoration.\u00a0 I want a truck that looks cool and still looks like an FJ-55 but a purist would immediately know something has been done to it.<\/p>\n

First order of business was to tackle one of the A-pillars to see how doable it is.\u00a0 If those are too difficult, then the project is a no-go for me.\u00a0 Fortunately, they proved doable given the technology I possessed.\u00a0 I built the A-pillar out of some 2x3x.188 rectangular tubing.\u00a0 I mated it to some 1.5x3x.250 rectangular tubing to replace the almost completely missing rocker panels.\u00a0 I did a floor patch while I was in there.\u00a0 Lots of spot welds to drill out.\u00a0 Not sure I’ll go to that extend on the passenger side.<\/p>\n

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The drivers side front door mounts perfectly and lines up nicely and opens\/closes cleanly.\u00a0 \u00a0This project has now passed the ‘doable’ gate.<\/p>\n

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Next order of business was to dismantle the interior and build a rotisserie.<\/p>\n

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A friend offered me a truck that he’s had on his TODO list for over 20 years.\u00a0 This truck has been sitting in his car-port, covered in various bits of detritus.\u00a0 After almost an hour of excavation, I was finally able to see the truck.\u00a0 Code-name:\u00a0 Terrible Idea.   What are my plans for it?\u00a0… Continue reading »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}