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Wits' End
For those of you who have followed my exploits concerning this White She-Devil, welcome back. This time its not all bad news.
Read the review here.
I have been driving the 60 around ever since I got the truck back from Georg at Valley Hybrids. He admitted to me right then and there that he isn't a carb guy but he got it close with what's there. I guess he's some kind of EFI guru, who knows
During my travels and normal everyday driving I noticed a few quirks:
• Strong gas smell on start up
• Very low idle ~500RPM
• Initial start up truck would run ok. Every other start up after warm would be rough.
• There was always a flat spot at hi speeds (45-60)
• The truck would frequently stall
• The truck was averaging 11MPG
• The carb would cut out when excelerating
• The truck would often lurch
• etc etc
Now I've been reading up on where to get the carb rebuilt and how to do it. When it came to carb rebuilds there were only two choices, JIMC and Mark's Off Road. Both are carb gods for whatever reason. I contacted JIMC, he gave me instructions and gave me a price, $295. He said lead time could be around 4 weeks. Long time. I finally asked Mark and his lead time was about 4 days...and he's local to me.
So I posted on some threads concerning carb rebuilds and I got about a dozen or so PMs about why I should or should not use JIMC and then same for Mark. Well great, why no consensus!??!?!
I decided to go with Mark. Mainly because he is just so close to me and I knew if there was an issue I could drag the truck right to him if need be. Now prior to this I had no allegiance either way. I just wanted it done right and the thought of waiting a few weeks didn't play well into my immediate gratification issues.
I had obtained a core carb from Georg so I decided to shoot that over to Mark to have him rebuild it instead of waiting for mine to be rebuilt. That way my total downtime was only a few hours.
I dropped it off, 4 days later I had the rebuilt carb. Mark went into a lot of detail about the carb and the install and I should have paid better attention
It sat for a few days until I was ready. Today was the day.
Now I couldn't find a tutorial about removing and replacing the carb, just some random bits of info spread out. So I figured i would write one for the new 60 owners out there.
The removal process:
• Take note of the vacuum hoses. Most of these follow sets of 4 or 3. Instead of marking individually which would take too long, I instead wrapped up the sets together in their order. For an 84 FJ60 there are only 3 sets of 4 vacuum tubes.
• Disconnect the electrical connector, disconnect the throttle linkage by removing the cotter pin, disconnect the choke linkage by open the throttle all the way open then pulling out the cable and pin.
• Remove the top air filter housing
• Notice how dirty our air filter is and how much oil has collected and make a "note to self" to replace the air filter and PCV valve.
Read the review here.
I have been driving the 60 around ever since I got the truck back from Georg at Valley Hybrids. He admitted to me right then and there that he isn't a carb guy but he got it close with what's there. I guess he's some kind of EFI guru, who knows
During my travels and normal everyday driving I noticed a few quirks:
• Strong gas smell on start up
• Very low idle ~500RPM
• Initial start up truck would run ok. Every other start up after warm would be rough.
• There was always a flat spot at hi speeds (45-60)
• The truck would frequently stall
• The truck was averaging 11MPG
• The carb would cut out when excelerating
• The truck would often lurch
• etc etc
Now I've been reading up on where to get the carb rebuilt and how to do it. When it came to carb rebuilds there were only two choices, JIMC and Mark's Off Road. Both are carb gods for whatever reason. I contacted JIMC, he gave me instructions and gave me a price, $295. He said lead time could be around 4 weeks. Long time. I finally asked Mark and his lead time was about 4 days...and he's local to me.
So I posted on some threads concerning carb rebuilds and I got about a dozen or so PMs about why I should or should not use JIMC and then same for Mark. Well great, why no consensus!??!?!
I decided to go with Mark. Mainly because he is just so close to me and I knew if there was an issue I could drag the truck right to him if need be. Now prior to this I had no allegiance either way. I just wanted it done right and the thought of waiting a few weeks didn't play well into my immediate gratification issues.
I had obtained a core carb from Georg so I decided to shoot that over to Mark to have him rebuild it instead of waiting for mine to be rebuilt. That way my total downtime was only a few hours.
I dropped it off, 4 days later I had the rebuilt carb. Mark went into a lot of detail about the carb and the install and I should have paid better attention
It sat for a few days until I was ready. Today was the day.
Now I couldn't find a tutorial about removing and replacing the carb, just some random bits of info spread out. So I figured i would write one for the new 60 owners out there.
The removal process:
• Take note of the vacuum hoses. Most of these follow sets of 4 or 3. Instead of marking individually which would take too long, I instead wrapped up the sets together in their order. For an 84 FJ60 there are only 3 sets of 4 vacuum tubes.
• Disconnect the electrical connector, disconnect the throttle linkage by removing the cotter pin, disconnect the choke linkage by open the throttle all the way open then pulling out the cable and pin.
• Remove the top air filter housing
• Notice how dirty our air filter is and how much oil has collected and make a "note to self" to replace the air filter and PCV valve.
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