1981 L200 'ClubSport'

[geezer101]

Is this still recognised as a genuine L200? Geez dude, there's hardly any original metal left in it! Anyone else would've driven this for years and not known there was something seriously wrong until it was beyond salvaging.

[tortron]

I can knock those out quite easily now. A few tweaks to my setup and I will be sorted to produce them for sale, I'm sure there's still some rusty mitsis out there.

The next stage is to reproduce the cab mount section quickly and accurately. The driver's side I made some anvils and ball head punches and spent a lot of time eyeballing and hammering it into shape. This time I would like to use my press.
So I started on some tooling
But in order to make the tooling, I had to make some tooling
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So far I have made a male buck for the side that faces the floor. Again I'm low on steel stock but I might be able to scrape up enough to make one for the side that faces the sill. This section is offset depending on being on the left or right side of the truck, so I would like to make it reversible, although a symmetric one would not effect the mount in any way.
My plan is to make the mount in two pieces and weld together before fitment to the truck (as I did with the driver's side)
I'm going to use a block of urethane rubber and a strong steel box and my press to rubber hydroform the panels. This mount is thicker steel than the previous two panels, so the box will need to be quite robust.
I could probably make the mount in one piece using this method, but large rubber blocks and plate steel are quite expensive so I think this is the best option.

Hoping to be able to pump a few out to keep more of these trucks out of the scrap yard