Greetings everyone!
Some of you may have seen my other post over in the 40- / 55-Series Tech forum; I failed to realize there was a distinguished group of awesome individuals already here in the FJ55 Iron Pig Preservation Society! My name is JM, or John, and I recently became the proud owner of a 1974 FJ55 that is pretty close to original. It has the original late-model F engine (1.5) and the 3-speed, but has a couple of mods such as a 3” lift kit, pertronix ignition with flamethrower coil, and some mean sounding headers… she’s actually in great mechanical and physical shape, but is missing a bunch of trim and needs some body work to repair some rust + paint job. Im still learning!!!.. but when I get into a hobby I tend to geek out and dig myself into a rabbit hole real quick. So forgive me if I start talking in tongues and your eyes start to glaze over (kind of used to it anyways…).
I’ve decided to start my own build thread to document my progress with my FJ55 who I’ll be naming Hen’s tooth, shouldn’t have to explain that name…
If you’re interested in reading a little story about me and how I came to acquire the pig you can check out my other thread here: New FJ55 Owner.
I’m a normal dude that works a crappy desk job with pretty much a minimal set of skills when it comes to working on old cars. But its always been a dream of mine to own a pig, so here I am today. I know I’ve got a decent head start, just call it a handicap, considering the pig is in pretty good condition and isn’t missing much, but I know I still have plenty of work cut out for me knowing how much of a perfectionist I am… maybe not as big of a perfectionist as some other folks on here though (some of the build threads I have seen are amazing).
For now though Ill kick off this thread with photos of the body and some of the rust that was spotted as I did a walk around, one of my initial goals is to start going at the rust and trying to see how bad it truly is then go from there.
My current backlog:
I ordered a ton of parts , including new headliner and seals. So I’ll update the thread with some pictures of the parts and the inevitable gear acquisition syndrome haul as I get them. But for now here’s a photo dump of the rusty bits…
Rust
Some of you may have seen my other post over in the 40- / 55-Series Tech forum; I failed to realize there was a distinguished group of awesome individuals already here in the FJ55 Iron Pig Preservation Society! My name is JM, or John, and I recently became the proud owner of a 1974 FJ55 that is pretty close to original. It has the original late-model F engine (1.5) and the 3-speed, but has a couple of mods such as a 3” lift kit, pertronix ignition with flamethrower coil, and some mean sounding headers… she’s actually in great mechanical and physical shape, but is missing a bunch of trim and needs some body work to repair some rust + paint job. Im still learning!!!.. but when I get into a hobby I tend to geek out and dig myself into a rabbit hole real quick. So forgive me if I start talking in tongues and your eyes start to glaze over (kind of used to it anyways…).
I’ve decided to start my own build thread to document my progress with my FJ55 who I’ll be naming Hen’s tooth, shouldn’t have to explain that name…
If you’re interested in reading a little story about me and how I came to acquire the pig you can check out my other thread here: New FJ55 Owner.
I’m a normal dude that works a crappy desk job with pretty much a minimal set of skills when it comes to working on old cars. But its always been a dream of mine to own a pig, so here I am today. I know I’ve got a decent head start, just call it a handicap, considering the pig is in pretty good condition and isn’t missing much, but I know I still have plenty of work cut out for me knowing how much of a perfectionist I am… maybe not as big of a perfectionist as some other folks on here though (some of the build threads I have seen are amazing).
For now though Ill kick off this thread with photos of the body and some of the rust that was spotted as I did a walk around, one of my initial goals is to start going at the rust and trying to see how bad it truly is then go from there.
My current backlog:
- Registration ←
- 60mi (96.5km) drive to home base
- Stripping her down
- Rust repair
I ordered a ton of parts , including new headliner and seals. So I’ll update the thread with some pictures of the parts and the inevitable gear acquisition syndrome haul as I get them. But for now here’s a photo dump of the rusty bits…
Rust
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. We are a Bunch of 
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