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Did a little more work on my temporary rust repairs today. Fiberglass filled the holes around the tail light. Never used this stuff before, tricky cause its so sticky but came out alright. Also filled the holes in the boot sill so at least my boot should get less water in it. Do people usually make up their own new taillight rubber seal thingos?? Fiberglass in bottom of rear guard. I should take bets on how long this will last. I give it 3 months ;) Another layer of bog and a few coats of primer on the repairs under the fuel flap. There's a bit of metal missing here, was hard to get the bit under the flap straight. It's not great but its way better than it was. Thanks dpb, might have to take you up on that sometime. Do people usually drill a hole in the bottom of the rear guard so water can get out if it happens to get in there? Thanks again to everyone for the comments, Sam

Ok cool, thanks guys. I won't worry about it too much then. Fuel filter looks fine too.

Any info on the rust in the fuel filler neck? Can this piece just be swapped over? I'm guessing it's pretty bad to have rust getting into the fuel tank..

Hi guys, thanks for the welcomes. Ripped out the old dash pad and chucked in the new one I got off a rollaclub member today. Wasn't half as annoying as changing dash pads usually is. Old dash pad, all cracked and warped. New pad in, it's the lighter blue but it looks alright. Yep, Ben-89 I'm in Brunswick. If there's anyone nearby be good to meet some rolla buddies. I'm new to doing body work n mechanical stuff by myself. Trial and error is my approach at the moment. At the moment I'm just going to "fix" the rust with fibreglass filler and try and get it rego'd. It'll be kept outside, it's obviously got quite a bit of bog in the rear from crappy previous repairs. Goal for now is to get the boot watertight and hopefully get 6 months or so out of it before I look at repairing it properly. I'll like to give it a shot at repairing myself when I've got more time up my sleeve. Like I said unfortunately I'm pretty poor at the moment so gotta count the pennies n do as much of it that I can do myself. After I fill the rust next thing on the list is to hopefully get some second hand strut inserts and put some urethane bushes through the front end. Never done this myself before so should be interesting :) be awesome if anyone wanted to give me a hand, happy to pass on some cash or booze or what not. Cheers, S

So I picked up a 1983 KE70 last week. I had been thinking about getting a car again, never had a Toyota, had quite a few old Mazdas and a couple of Datsuns. This was fairly cheap so I thought I might as well snap it up and see how much it needs to get it back on the road. It had been a courtesy car for a local mechanic. Not 100% if I'm going to keep it yet, I'm a poor uni student so might move it along if I find it needs too much. It's got a stock 4k-c which seems to run great and a 4 speed. Here are some teaser pics: Dodgy repairs under fuel flap. Rust is bottom of rear guard, pretty bad but seen worse, I sanded this back and painted with rust converter. Plan is to just fibreglass filler this up and get through road worthy. Probably look at it in the future when it starts bubbling through again. Old repairs under fuel flap after grinding it back. Just gonna bog over this too for now. Rust in fuel filler, have to do something about this, can you just swap the filler neck? Example of some of the rust in boot sills after grinding back a bit. If I keep the car I'm going to keep it pretty much stock while it's going ok. Plans are: - Get some generic chrome door mirrors - New shocks and lowered springs in front - Prob chopped EA falcon springs in back - Urethane bushes all through front. - Basic stereo - Fit Sports Steering Wheel I've already got - Maybe extractors and 2" exhaust at some point. - Keep the steelies on it until I can afford either some MA61's or some other awesome oldskool rims. Thanks for looking, Sam