My Samurai

[KTaylor660]

Most of you have at least saw a pic of my Zuki, and I'm changing it a little. Here's what it looked like before...http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x19/aquaticwonders/Samurai/Zukiside.jpg I am painting it Hunter Green, and I have removed the snorkel. I also filled all of the holes from the snorkel, the holes that the previous owner had siliconed up, and the holes for the mirrors. The mirrors will be moved to the window pillar to allow me to run doorless and not have the police harass me. I'll post more pics as I continue working on it.

[KTaylor660]

Ok, here's pics of it during the sanding/bondo stage.....
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x19/aquaticwonders/Samurai/Picture009.jpg
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x19/aquaticwonders/Samurai/Picture008.jpg
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x19/aquaticwonders/Samurai/Picture007.jpg
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x19/aquaticwonders/Samurai/Picture006.jpg

[KTaylor660]

And here it sits in primer. I got the first coat of paint on tonight, and will put another coat on tomorrow. I'll hopefully get some pics up tomorrow night to show the color.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x19/aquaticwonders/Samurai/Picture001-1.jpg
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x19/aquaticwonders/Samurai/Picture002-1.jpg
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x19/aquaticwonders/Samurai/Picture003-1.jpg
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x19/aquaticwonders/Samurai/Picture007-1.jpg
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x19/aquaticwonders/Samurai/Picture006-1.jpg

[TiredIronGRB]

Looking good, why wouldn't it start?

[KTaylor660]

Haven't got that far yet. I'm trying to get it painted before it rains again. If I get the 2nd coat on early tomorrow, then I'm going to try and get it started again.

[KTaylor660]

Got the 2nd coat on today and got the black stripe back on the hood. I should have everything back on it tomorrow night, and then will be working on getting it started.....
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x19/aquaticwonders/Samurai/Picture009-1.jpg
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x19/aquaticwonders/Samurai/Picture010.jpg
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x19/aquaticwonders/Samurai/Picture012.jpg
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x19/aquaticwonders/Samurai/Picture014.jpg
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x19/aquaticwonders/Samurai/Picture015.jpg

[BillM]

Looking good.

[SamuraiGuyTN]

dang Ken, looks really good

[Andy's01]

Looks Good, cant wait to see it on the trails. You gonna make it to the Fall Crawl????

[Gordon]

Great progress, Ken. Looks good.

[BroncoMike]

Nice work man!!

[carrjoe]

Hey, Ken I have some 8-1 gears in a case with newer output shaft still. 900 and we'll swap cases, looking better than when I had it compcut it and stretch it or at least cut the fender flare mounts off and make it look like a SJ presamurai. I think I even have an older SJ grill it's really metal no plastic. The money from the samurai went to rebuild my ear glad to see you rebuilding "zuknamedstich" old sammy.

[KTaylor660]

OK, I pulled off the tape, and here's how the hood looks now. I'm taking today off to rest, and will work on it again tomorrow. Joe, I like the t-case that's in it now, as I'll be going to Yota's hopefully soon. I'll be doing some cutting once I figure out how I want to cut it and get some bumpers.

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x19/aquaticwonders/Samurai/Picture017.jpg
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x19/aquaticwonders/Samurai/Picture016.jpg
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x19/aquaticwonders/Samurai/Picture018.jpg

[BroncoMike]

Jolly Green Giant!! :wink: :lol:

[SamuraiGuyTN]

golly I can 't belive thats the same Zuke, I am so used to seeing it with the older ppaint scheme. So how hard was it to paint?

[KTaylor660]

the painting part was actually pretty easy. I wish that I had gotten some strainers, as some "flakes" made it through the gun. I have some runs, but for my first paint job, I'm pretty impressed. The paint actually dried quicker that I thought, and I think it will hold up good. It took around 2 hours to do one coat, but that included mixing paint, etc.

[Want2Wheel]

Good work.

[SamuraiGuyTN]

don't worry about the runs, the rocks and trees will rub them out

[Bluegill]

Looking good! :smokin:

[Marty G]

looking real good :smokin: