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Thank you. You all know when this will get really good!? When this truck and it’s owner are on an around the world drive! :cool: Cheers

Troopy body fresh out of the blasting booth. Cheers

Chassis parts back from paint. Now the fun begins. :) Cheers

Rebuilt the Panhard mount on the Troopy’s rear axle. Cheers

Troopy body is in the blasting booth. :) Cheers

End of a long hard few days when I posted the above pics, hence no description. Frame fresh from the blaster, not pictured is front axle housing and associated parts. Rear housing we had a spindle damaged beyond repair so a replacement housing was sourced. That along with the body on the...

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Gutters all stripped of factory seam sealer. Few areas need some attention but overall they are good. Old school trick here to clean out hollow areas real well. Another old school trick to quickly remove the factory seam sealer in the wheel wells. Chassis is done at blaster, swapping...

You are not ready for an international trip if you are asking people for horror stories. Forget these kind of thoughts or an international trip in your own truck is not for you. Now that is not to say you shouldn’t be vigilant and plan for safe travel. I opened your thread though and in my...

Bump Coming up fast on ten years since I did this trip. It was glorious, memories to last a lifetime! :) Cheers

With that all done it was time for the next step. Strip down the chassis in prep for sand blasting. Axle parts cleaned up, hadn't pulled studs yet in this picture. Frame ready to go. I hired Adam Churnside, formally of Tor Fab recently. We got the frame and axles off to the sand...

New shop new tools. I got the Troopy body on the rotisserie. I got the last of the things pulled from it like rear cargo windows. I will be doing all the rust repairs on this truck. We have a lot of new OEM Toyota body parts but there will be some fab as well. These areas all need to be...

A couple of the other Cruisers I had to deal with before I could get back on the Troopy. And move into a new shop! It took me about three weeks to get all moved, setup and back to working on Cruisers full time. TBC Cheers

I have built a few of these Cruisers on 80-series chassis. This time I decided to build the body mounts from scratch and weld them up. They begin to take shape. Getting them fitted under the Cruiser. Here is where the Troopy landed on the 80 frame, this was as low as I could get it...

Coil springs, oh ya! :) I spend a lot of time on setup when I do these builds, as long as it takes. It is important to get everything squared up, centered and level. Everything has to be test fitted. Even our 2007+ wide nose conversion. ;) Before body mounts can be built the engine...

Welding frame back together. To cover the splice. Welded up and first round of clean up with the grinder. Strip the chassis out from under the body. Body setup to roll the new stretched 80 chassis under it and start building body mounts. Rolling the new 80 chassis under it...

Work began on stripping the 80 chassis. Once the chassis was stripped, move it in the shop. At this time I just had a little one bay shop. Cut all the 80-series body mounts off the 80 chassis. Troopy is 5" longer for wheel base than an 80. So we extended the chassis 5". To do this we...

Here is the Troopy in Latin America after we had acquired it and got it out of it's hiding place. TBC Cheers

Got a pretty cool project going in the shop. Little back story, I found this 1993 HZJ75 Troopy in Latin America back in 2017. It had been left for dead mostly but couldn't be imported at that time for over a year. So I kind of just forgot about it and put it back burner. Fast forward about...

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