Thanks guys.
Time for an update............
Car Port.
I built the carport and the Hilux proved invaluable.
I bought a fancy new saw.
Dyna-bolted a joist to the house wall giving a nice fall.
Then came out from that with level joists/rafters.
I fixed galvanised shoes to the concrete to support the bottom of the posts.
Top of the posts needed notching to support the rafters.
More timber.
I extended the fence up to enclose the side of the carport up to the roof.
I had to add a gutter along the house wall.
I needed to remove this section of concrete that the previous owner had obviously poured to allow normal cars to get down the ramp.
I needed to remove it so the 78 will fit underneath with its roof rack on.
I looked into hiring a big breaker/jack hammer but the hire cost was as much as buying one, so I just bought one.
I cut out a section of concrete for the gutter to drain into.
I did the rear down pipe and gutter and discovered I'd put the storm water pipe in the wrong place.
I got the roof sheets delivered and the front ones in particular were a bit of a struggle to carry and lift, being 8.5 meters long. The rear ones were a bit easier at 6.5 meters long.
I worked through the rain to get the sheets on.
I decorated the walls with some signs I'd collected over the years.
I decided to get a bit artistic with some spare 70 series panels I'm keeping.
Next I enclosed this side of the car port.
This is only temporary as when I build the extension on the back of the house with the 3 car garage underneath I will probably open this wall up again.
Through out the project this nibbler has proven invaluable. Such a great tool for cutting tin sheets.
I put some pallet racking up for the rest of my spare LandCruiser parts to be stored on.
I built a new pedestrian door for the back of the garage, as I had removed the old full size tilting metal garage door.
And I built a studwall up to the new door frame.
I built a pedestrian door for the carport.
Unfortunately I discovered there still wasnt quite enough height for the 78, despite me removing 200mm of concrete from the bottom of the ramp.
So I used a length of timber on the trolley jack and jacked this front rafter up 60mm and spaced it up with blocks of timber.
Its put a slight kink in the roof but its not very noticeable.
I will replace the timber spacers with steel shortly.
I will have to redo some of the tinted corrugated plastic I had used around the curve around the front.
But at least the 78 now fits in.
I still need to get rid of all this rubble but that will have to wait until I'm stronger.
I picked up a roller shutter for the rear of the carport off Facebook Market place for $50 from a house that was being demolished.
I never realised how heavy they are and in hindsight I should have used the Hilux to pick it up.
I still need to get one for the front of the carport and that one will have to be motorised and have a remote.
Garage/Workshop.
With LJ out of the garage and in the back of the carport, I've been able to setup my workshop just how I want it.
I picked up a sheet of 10mm thick steel plate for my new welding bench as it only had a 3mm steel top and thats not thick enough for welding on as it would distort.
It weighed 180kg so I had to use the crane to get it into position.
I ordered a piece of steel with a nice 80mm overhang to make clamping things down to the bench top nice and easy.
I would need to clean all the mill scale off the bench top, weld it into position, paint the bench frame and I had ordered an expensive new vice for it.
Up until a few weeks ago I underwent 6 weeks of chemo once a week with a constant high dose of steroids. The steroids were worse than the chemo and resulted in me only getting 2 hours sleep a night. It was horrific, but I made the most of it and I was out in the garage every morning at 2am pottering away, sorting bolts out, putting up lights and power sockets.
I did jobs I would never have got around to in a million years as I would never have been able to justify spending all the time sorting boxes of bolts out etc.
This is how the workshop turned out.
I was pleased to clear out underneath this bench so that I can sit at it again with my legs underneath it. Theres times when you're working on something and its a lot more comfortable to be able to sit at a bench with your legs underneath.
I'm really pleased with how the bench has come out with the new top, blue paint and new vice.
I looked for a while for a second hand off set Australian Dawn vice. They were nearly all the much more common red ones and many of them had been broken and welded back together.
So I looked into new ones and discovered the Dawn green vices which are guaranteed unbreakable for life and are made out of different steel to the red ones.
Its the biggest off set vice Dawn make and its 100% Australian made and will last a life time, I imagine I will pass it on to my grandchild and I see no reason why it shouldnt last hundreds of years.
At $900 it wasnt cheap, but I've always had a thing for vices, particularly English made Record vices (I brought 4 out with me when I emigrated) but sadly Irwin completely F'd Record, like all the other tool companies they bought up, for the name only as they instantly shifted production to China and the quality went through the floor sadly.
Cars.
I finally sourced a rear boot carpet section from a KZJ771 in the UK. This was the last section of carpet I needed to complete my LJ70 and was the hardest to source as usually the boot carpet gets dirty and damaged first.
The Hilux was struggling to start on the cold mornings, so I bought some new glow plugs for it.
The old ones were really badly worn.
The non turbo 3L snail in all its glory.
I had been looking for a suitable 1KZ engine donor for most of the year for my Hilux (as the 3Lis painful to drive at times, hills in particular are horrible, its so gutless) and I was really struggling to find a Toyota Surf with a manual transmission, all the ones imported were nearly all auto's.
Then I spotted this accident damaged Hilux.
The car was in Geelong which meant I couldnt go and look at it without breaking the law as we are in lock down and non essential travel is banned.
So I bank transferred a stranger $4.5k and then paid a tow truck driver $450 cash to pick it up and deliver it to me.
It all worked out well and 24 hours after spotting it it was in my garage!
The next morning I winched it out of the garage to try and pull some of the dent out of the bullbar, before I remove the bullbar completely.
It wasnt very succesful so I will try and hammer it out once its off the vehicle.
I stripped lots more parts off it and then got it outside to remove the tray.
Brand new wheel and tyre, meaning the car came with 3 brand new tyres and 2 part worns.
The original front drivers wheel took a hell of a hit.
I disconnected everything to allow me to remove the cab.
The pile of bits was slowly growing.
I winched the Hilux back outside.
And began jacking the cab up ready to wheel the chassis out from underneath.
It was dodgy as F and you can see how much the back end moved across after escaping twice!
After my heavily pregnant wife helped me for half an hour placing blocks of timber under it looked like this, which was probably the safest it had been.
The original plan had been to pull the chassis back into the garage but realising I'd have to go much higher still I decided to pull the chassis forwards and out the side.
Next I needed to lower the cab down onto a trolley.
my plan is to try and sell the cab complete with interior, doors, dash etc. as that will cut down on the amount of car parts hanging around and needing selling.
The cab is also in good condition so it seems the best course of action.
The cab got winched up the hill.
The cab got parked out of the way and then the chassis could be lowered down the hill way to go in the garage.
I had the wonderful idea of winching the back end around and in using the winch on the front of the 78.
Only I discovered for the first time ever the Warn 8274 winch wasnt working.
The blame is very much being pointed at the albright style solenoid mounted to the winch motor as its getting power and a good earth.
So I had to resort to using the trolley jack and high lift jack to shunt the chassis around. It was bloody hard work, especially for someone who is extremely weak from months of intensive chemo and I was also infeced with Rino virus.
Eventually it was in though.
I massively overdid it though those 2 days working on the Hilux as I then spent the next 7 days on the sofa battling flu.
Eventually I managed to do a bit more on it...........
I drained the power steering fluid and I've honestly never seen fluid this dirty before, I suspect its never been changed!
Pulled the engine out.
I'm hoping to make about $4k profit and end up with the 1KZ engine for my conversion, R151 transmission, aircon setup, airbox, exhaust, radiator, prop shafts.
I've already sold the side steps/scub bars for $200, owners manual for $50, bonnet protector for $50 and towbar for $200.
I was hoping to pull out the 3L and get that sold last weekend, but unfortunately as Melbourne i in stage 4 lockdown, no on can legally come to the house to collect/buy anything.
But I've been doing some more work stripping the remains of the Hilux and working on the new engine.
He learned to dig pretty quick. 
