LSUfj
SILVER Star
Well,
The past few weeks have made this project grow into a restoration. I have had this 40 for about 2 years now and have been trying to get it running better ever since. I picked up a carburated 3f for a really good price and planned to drop it in and go. So i got the new-er engine home and began to pull the front end apart. It was all going well until i realized the PO had welded the driver side fender bracket to the frame. At this point, I decided that there were too many half-a$$ repairs to just leave it alone. Along with the welded fender, there is a 5/8 socket being used for a spacer on the alternator bracket, a trailer harness used for the rear lights, heavy gauge wire used to hold various lines/wires to the frame rails, and a thick layer of epoxy resin used to blend a driver floor panel into the tranny hump.
Anyway, here is a shot of when I purchased it. Looks pretty good right? Plenty of work hiding under that shell. It came with a set of factory wheels that i put some 33x10.5 bfgs on right after I got it home.... it looked great. I planned to drive it like this for a few years, then do the restoration. In the meantime, I added some mini truck discs and purchased a bunch of small parts. So here we are two years later and its coming apart....very quickly.
I am not sure what I want to do with the 3f now, but I think the plan is to do very little with it. I will probably get the fj apart and put back together. At that point I think I will use the 3f as a temporary engine while the 2f is being refurbished.
Anyway, Im sure my plans will change again. I will update as I progress.
The past few weeks have made this project grow into a restoration. I have had this 40 for about 2 years now and have been trying to get it running better ever since. I picked up a carburated 3f for a really good price and planned to drop it in and go. So i got the new-er engine home and began to pull the front end apart. It was all going well until i realized the PO had welded the driver side fender bracket to the frame. At this point, I decided that there were too many half-a$$ repairs to just leave it alone. Along with the welded fender, there is a 5/8 socket being used for a spacer on the alternator bracket, a trailer harness used for the rear lights, heavy gauge wire used to hold various lines/wires to the frame rails, and a thick layer of epoxy resin used to blend a driver floor panel into the tranny hump.
Anyway, here is a shot of when I purchased it. Looks pretty good right? Plenty of work hiding under that shell. It came with a set of factory wheels that i put some 33x10.5 bfgs on right after I got it home.... it looked great. I planned to drive it like this for a few years, then do the restoration. In the meantime, I added some mini truck discs and purchased a bunch of small parts. So here we are two years later and its coming apart....very quickly.
I am not sure what I want to do with the 3f now, but I think the plan is to do very little with it. I will probably get the fj apart and put back together. At that point I think I will use the 3f as a temporary engine while the 2f is being refurbished.
Anyway, Im sure my plans will change again. I will update as I progress.