Recent content by Fezzik

great write up, thanks!

What's this called?

great, mine actually arrived this afternoon. Now trying to locate a good welder/shop to put them in for me

never used the luxury line, but I cant imagine it holding up on a skid plate. that being said, it is insanely easy to retouch after an offroad outing. I use the stuff on my components that don't see a lot of action

Thanks for the link, I am about to purchase and take to a shop. Was your shop happy with the quality of the repair kit?

Looks good, and a Craigslist deal is always the perfect time to upgrade

just an update on the progress, spent a couple of hours on Sunday with a wire wheel and mad some great progress. As noted above the "pumpkin" has some crevasses that are better with a smaller tool. About 75% of my way through the day I unfortunately found some frame rot that I missed when I...

bought it on 5/25, so not even 2 weeks. Got a bad vibe, didn't trust my gut, distracted by all the bells and whistles and overlooked the number 1 thing on my list....the frame

I think I really screwed the pooch on this deal. Flew to PA to look at a one owner 01 4Runner with tons of extras. Checked out the car and found some surface rust in the rear, but for the most part looked good. Spent some time going over it looking for any red flags and I missed one..... a...

Thanks for looking out, I crawled under last night and verified it's just s rust flake. Not a cracked frame

thanks for all the replies, I'll probably get started with the wire wheeling this afternoon. I plan on taking detailed pictures as I go

got it, I was thinking they were both a rust converter, sounds like you could use the POR after using the permatex Thanks for the suggestions gents, I'm excited to get this project going

I wanted to run my rust plan by you all as well as post some pictures to see if anyone had specific concerns/thoughts on any of the areas. Purchased supplies yesterday and plan on making this a weekend project, I'm in no hurry and should point out that I bought the car in the NE and drove it...

Great find, keep up the tooling

Just picked up my 01 SC on Friday, ready to start tinkering and it looks like the 170 pages of this thread are going to be a good start