Tortrons's 1981 Mitsi L200 Clubsport

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All thriller no filler

 

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Other side

Looks pretty good

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Hmmm

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Oh, yea that seems about right

 

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The roof line is at least pretty good on this side. Big step where the roof is attached to the a pillar, same as the other side, I assumed standard Todd motors fitment, but now I'm wondering if it's had the roof replaced, and it's warped to hell, maybe a roll over is why it was dereg in the 90s

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Wish it would have come off in slabs for easy clean up

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I can get the whole roof to oil can in. I can also get about 4 seperate areas to do it, so a bit of shrinking is necessary. Some old pitting and a small area that's resulted in pin holes. There's a bit of surface rust on the interior roof, Il need to strip it down. Potentially it's a big patch as the other area of pitting is about hand size. Possibly sat for a while with a caved in roof.

Note the dark patches, looks to me like some attempts at shrinking it with a torch.

Currently painted satin black, and it's about 20degrees hotter inside. After sitting in the sun one of the canning areas stiffened up, so Il stretch that one

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Cleaned the LSD up with new paint, spring hardware, cylinders, and oil. It can go in when the paint hardens off.

 

Had a bald front tyre so got a couple of desert duelers put on, only 15*215s available today. Swapped the best one to use as the spare. Forgot how crusty the spare rim was, should have grabbed a good one from the shed. Came home and polished it up abit. Will remember for next time.

So far so good, they might be a little less balloony so haven't rubbed yet, and no squeeling like the old baldies

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Metal got a bit thin on the passenger side roof. How come every truck I get has a drip from the roof. Keeps you awake I guess. Have brushed down some of the more suspect spots across the inner roof and they look passable.

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Mrs doesn't let me do this

 

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Let that be our little secret

 

 

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Ok, into that patch

 

how do these cabs rust out here idk, still have a feeling this thing has been either on its roof or had a new roof, theres some weird seams and double brackets

 

at least it wasn't bog over rust this time eh

not much left of this bracket. cant see this one on any of the body diagrams, fortunately the one on the otherside was complete so I had a rough idea of how it should look. It was spot welded in crooked at the factory. Nice.

 

cad it up

if you don't have one of these, get one. so handy for around door frames and inside panels

lucky the back of the cab needs repatching because I needed to make some more access for the welder because this section had rusted out where it joins the drip rail area

 

two brackets to go in

 

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Continuing work making some patches

getting the cab lines measured out before cutting the rest of the old patch out, then cutting more out to get rid off the old brass work

this side had a poorly shaped door frame in the corner, so that came out too. I'm not 100% on that swage line under the drip rail, but the other side has one roughly in line with the top of the door frame and to the end of the drip rail. So put one in where I guessed it should go

 

a little more fine shaping to go before welding them in, but pretty close. I will also need to make up about an inch of drip rail as this side is missing some

 

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Am I doing it right? I don't know if i will need 5L of bog doing it this way.

 

Masked off the inner roof and sprayed some zinc inside the remaining hole, will eventually spray a bunch of cavity wax inside too