Toyota FJ45 Bed tubs and sides

Quality custom & restoration sheet metal work & repair

Lots of weld grinding plus the usual hammer dolly and some shrink disc work. Not bad looking for a bunch of pieces put together. Now do this again to make the other side then the customer can build his tow behind trailer.

New bed front ends had to be made to fit the bed side shapes.

Now for the bed sides 2 to repair then 2 custom built for the tow behind trailer but only 6 ft long.

First lots of holes to fill weld and grind clean and panel damage, hammer dolly and shrink disk time.

This one of the 4 was in the best condition so I used it for a base.

First I worked out the dents then removed the rusted flanges.

Inside look

Making flange sections with tub sitting level on my table.

The accent line ran all the way to the end so that needed to be changed.

Welds not ground yet.

With all the pieces clamped together I started slowly tig welding it together. I did the end caps first.

Cleaned up real nice

First I cut to length the upper accent pieces then aligned them for tig welding together.

Short welds at a time but its starting to take shape.

Ground the welds clean.

I cut the wheel arch opening out an the excess off of the bottom for the flange lip, then turned the bottom flange after that I stated putting the puzzle pieces together.

Double checking for level on my table.

The upper belt line end caps were replaced.

The owner sent me these pictures after the main bed was put together with the repaired sides.

I received a phone call from California and the potential customer said they had 4 Toyota FJ45 wheel tubs that need rebuild and 2 bed sides repaired and 2 that needed to be built for a matching trailer from pieces. A few days later he showed up with the tubs and damaged sides and pieces to build a 6-foot matching trailer.

There was no difference in the Left side or the Right, so I made up a simple jig fixture to use when welding custom made pieces to main body..

Other accent line end being installed

Just like the repaired bed sides I had to patch the upper pocket sections.

Additional welding and touch up from the will be inside of the trailer.

I also had to make new back flange where it will be welded to the sides.

Thats it for this project and if you have a Toyota FJ series PU yes I will also rebuild your fenders tubs or bed sides if needed. All put together or in pieces like these were. Hope you enjoyed the build.

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The owner did supply me with some pieces to start with, 4 upper accent line sections 2 wheel arches and 2 over sized pieces of 16 gage steel.

Inside welds were ground clean on bed end pieces.