ja1lb8s ms51 crown

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all out of order bit found  more photos of rust repairs to boot floor , inner and outer rear guards, just everywhere really

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Sandblasted the fuel tank and was rusted from the outside in. Ended up brazing up the holes and putting gas tank sealer stuff in it.Was nice and clean inside bit wanted to seal up where id been welding. Seems to have worked a treat.
 

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Blasted and painted anything I could. Pretty tedious work bit real happy with the result. Think from memory I replaced the bottoms of those inner guard things because they were all rust fucked too

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Finally got the car back from the upolsterers.

Looks decent, got the boot done as well. Had a crack at covering the dash in vinyl which came out ok.  Want to get a proper moulded  remanufactured dashpad  but the dashboard place needs the steel frame to make a mould off which is a bit hard because its welded in so have to cut the bulkhead out of a car and take it to them for that to happen.  Otherwise  continue on with putting it back together

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Test fit screens

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Couldnt get rubber for a coupe so brought multiple sets for a sedan and cut and joined to suite.

Had to laugh when i saw the bag the rubber came in( toyota general parts)

Spent hours polishing the rear screen with autosol as the copper strips in the demister wire thing had all corroded and gone green and come out of the glass ,  Come up good but can still make out faint lines where they where. I talked to the old guru  at the local glass place I use and he said they  used to lay them on as the glass was still curing and thats  why it looks like its in the glass and not just stuck on top.

Fitted stainless looks lovely

 

 

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And because nobody ever has just one got it a friend

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Jump forward a couple of months and almost finished.

A few small things to do and iron out some of the  electrical gremlims, not much of anything works to be honest.

Have a ciggy lighter and am radio so thats the essentials covered.  Other things like lights , electric windows, gauges,  horn, wipers basically everything electircal needs some work.

Ill round up a few more photos of the interior and bits and pieces and chuck up here at some stage

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Hadn't really done much with this.  Mostly because it was just rubbish to drive. Bit the bullet and got stuck into doing an engine transplant.   Brought a well used ms123 crown for the running  gear.   Gave the engine a  paint job rebuild and proceeded to fit it into the coupe.  For the most part it bolted in.   Had to modify the crossmember and make a new driveshaft as the transmissions are a different length.  Lots of small things need modifying  as the coupes engine  bay is about 100mm narrower and a 100mm shorter then the doner crown.  Biggest battle was getting the wiring loom intergrated into the existing car loom, definitely not one of my strong points but muddled my way through. Replaced the steering box with a new one I got off yahoo,so stoked, made all the difference to the feel of how it drives.

  Happy days