Hi from Dublin

[Derekm]

Hi all,

After a 3 year search I've finally been matched with a 1984 landcruiser BJ40 and that has serious potential for a project.
I took delivery yesterday off the back of a trailer due to it been laid up for over ten years in some farmers barn in the south of Ireland. So I don't need to tell you if you know what these beasts are made of but literally after fitting a pair of batteries and dart of easy start I was driving my new ride before the dismantling starts.
Anyway I've been surfing the net looking for spare parts and finding alot of American,Austrailian websites, can anyone recommend good websites for all spare's required for a full restoration or any other helpful info?
I'm looking forward to been part of this club and getting your feedback, I will post pictures later this week and on an ongoing basis so you watch progress on this project.

Derek

[TONKA]

GDay Derek

welcome to LCOC.ie.

customs and tax can be a downer when importing stuff from outside EU. Not unless you have a contact out there that can reship it marked gift or personal items . I once bought stuff from Australia. As it was for export Australian VAT didnt apply. After a long wait -i had asked for airmail- i gets a note from Royal Mail . that they were holding on to the package on the customs behalf until i paid the import tax and Royalmails handling fee. Not a happy chappy i was after that. I also learnt theres 2 types of airmail out of Australia. One fast and one slow.

Check out the thread in the 40series forum. its something like "the ever elusive quest for body panels" .

Don't be put off by language difficulties, most europeans have watched enough yanky films to understand english :-)
also enabling Googletranslate can help a right treat.

and dont believe everythign you see on the internet. if it ainton their website, doesnt mean they dont have it.

If you get a list made up of all you need, whilst and after you dismantle everything. then you could post that to the suppliers. most good ones will try to source the stuff you need even if it ahs to come from japan.

Tonka

[Derekm]

Thank you Tonka,

After posting the thread and searching around the site I did discover the thread on the elusive fj parts, anyway thanks for the help and look forward to lots more feed back from your club, fortunately I have experience with importing goods and have a company that’s VAT registered . I suppose the big risk is you order something that isn’t quite right or slightly different from what your looking for which is were I think this club will help during the project.
What’s your view on chassis preparation? Have you any experience with sandblasting, powder coating or other forms of chassis finish?

Derek

[TONKA]

from memory most of the chassis frame is a C-section within a C-section . and is mostly open as opposed to landrover fully boxed in. usually the chassis are in good nick.

but sometimes salt/water/rust can develope in the bits were the C-sections over lap. the front and rear x-members are also good hangouts for rust. The weakest point on the chasis is around the front spring hangers rear mounts the goose neck bit. these can snap. but apparently toyota have included very precise instructions in one of their manuals how to fix this. just welding plate ignorantly all over can impact on the inherent flex of the chassis, and lead to problems else were on the frame.

i havent got to the nitty gritty of my own chassis yet. But do know they can be galvanised. if you hear scare stories of chassis twisting during galvaising thatll be landrovers cause for the temperture differences in the boxed chaissis rails. Not such a problem for 40series.

i think sand cant be used as a blasting medium dure to health reasons. But the term "sandblasting" seems to have stuck. nowadays you can blast with anything ranging from coconut shell, glass beads to slag from steel mills. prices range too. im not sure your average backyard blaster will have access to all the mediums or would want to switch from what hes used to. but remember even with its open chassis rails there will be places the blaster cant get to.

something i like the idea of and dont know if the technology exisits in ireland is what this mob in england are doing...http://www.surfaceprocessing.co.uk/technical-process.html
it may be a bit rich to use on a chassis though.

Right i think thats me waffling done for the day..

One wee pointer to yourself and others. Theres a heap of info hidden away in peoples "intros". Sometimes its hard to refind. It is handier to find in the future if we start up dedicatedly titled threads under their appropiate forums.

[ADAM J]

welcome to the site

[jmcg]

Welcome along Derek,
If you get a chance throw up a few photos.
Regarding chassis protection, I'm just plastering on some waxoyl as I go, but I'm lucky as the chassis on mine was coated with some kind of bitumen based product and hasn't rusted at all really. It's about the cheapest form of protection but seems to have worked so far.
Best of luck with your rebuild.
JM

[Derekm]

i started a new thread under early days