Might as well start with the story behind this. I told my wife one evening that I was thinking about getting an fj62, which she told me was fine. And then the next day she calls me at work and says, "Well if you get a 62 I get a 40 but it has to be automatic!" I said I would like into what it would take to make it work. Apparently now there is no 62 for me though dangit.
Spent a few hours on mud and decided it just might be doable in an all Toyota fashion, which is the only way I was gonna do it. I have messed with the cummins and chevy stuff before and it is just not my style. So then for the search, I had to find a 40 and a donor. After looking at a few Cruisers local I decided that I would have to broaden my search, and posted a wanted ad here on mud. Which ended up with me buying a 1974 fj40 from New Mexico sight unseen. This deal took awhile to work out and then had to wait for the shippers to do their thing which ended up with my brother going through a bit of an ordeal. Hopefully he will come on and post the story.
During this time I was also searching for an fj62 or fj80 to use for a donor vehicle for the entire drivetrain. I ended up finding a 1991 fj80 on craigslist with a blown headgasket for 1k obo. Ended up getting it for 700 not sure this was a wonderful deal haha. Again a pretty good story for my brother to tell. He gets to go through these adventures because I am working and he is not and he likes Cruisers too much to tell me no when I ask him to do this stuff.
So while we were waiting for the 40 to come in we tore into the 80 and rebuilt the top end. Everything went smoothly and the engine started up on the first crank. So now it is ready to drop into the 40.
The 40 came in middle of this week and we played around in it for a couple of days. And then tore into this weekend and pulled the drivetrain. Which I found a little hard to do emotionally haha (not the case with the 80 its pretty gross inside). The stock 1.5f engine ran great, was recently rebuilt, started on the first crank and just had that good cruiser character. It also came with an sm420 bolted up to it and I believe the 4sp tcase. This is all for sale though I havent posted it yet. I have video of the engine running and going through all the gears to show how well it all worked. Contact me if interested.
The plan is to swap the entire drivetrain including the axles from the 80 over into the 40. Probably will be putting it on 35s and using as a dd and weekend warrior.
The three main characters working on this are me, my brother (vikingcruiser), and the wannabe murse (indianporfavor)
DISCLAIMER: No one working on this project has any idea what we are doing and have never done anything like this before. Any advice at any point is greatly apprecciated.
Ya ya I know, worthless without pics. But this might be better to start with. (she thinks the 40 is cool)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c0R2A5Ky4I
Spent a few hours on mud and decided it just might be doable in an all Toyota fashion, which is the only way I was gonna do it. I have messed with the cummins and chevy stuff before and it is just not my style. So then for the search, I had to find a 40 and a donor. After looking at a few Cruisers local I decided that I would have to broaden my search, and posted a wanted ad here on mud. Which ended up with me buying a 1974 fj40 from New Mexico sight unseen. This deal took awhile to work out and then had to wait for the shippers to do their thing which ended up with my brother going through a bit of an ordeal. Hopefully he will come on and post the story.
During this time I was also searching for an fj62 or fj80 to use for a donor vehicle for the entire drivetrain. I ended up finding a 1991 fj80 on craigslist with a blown headgasket for 1k obo. Ended up getting it for 700 not sure this was a wonderful deal haha. Again a pretty good story for my brother to tell. He gets to go through these adventures because I am working and he is not and he likes Cruisers too much to tell me no when I ask him to do this stuff.
So while we were waiting for the 40 to come in we tore into the 80 and rebuilt the top end. Everything went smoothly and the engine started up on the first crank. So now it is ready to drop into the 40.
The 40 came in middle of this week and we played around in it for a couple of days. And then tore into this weekend and pulled the drivetrain. Which I found a little hard to do emotionally haha (not the case with the 80 its pretty gross inside). The stock 1.5f engine ran great, was recently rebuilt, started on the first crank and just had that good cruiser character. It also came with an sm420 bolted up to it and I believe the 4sp tcase. This is all for sale though I havent posted it yet. I have video of the engine running and going through all the gears to show how well it all worked. Contact me if interested.
The plan is to swap the entire drivetrain including the axles from the 80 over into the 40. Probably will be putting it on 35s and using as a dd and weekend warrior.
The three main characters working on this are me, my brother (vikingcruiser), and the wannabe murse (indianporfavor)
DISCLAIMER: No one working on this project has any idea what we are doing and have never done anything like this before. Any advice at any point is greatly apprecciated.
Ya ya I know, worthless without pics. But this might be better to start with. (she thinks the 40 is cool)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c0R2A5Ky4I
After this ordeal we get it all off he has the nerve to ask me if he can drive my truck 5 miles to the parts store to get what he thinks will fix the f550 so he can get it back on without getting a wrecker to come out. I could not believe the nerve he acted like we were best friends or something. Anyway he gave me 30 bucks for my troubles which I guess is something. So I finally got the 40 to the house at 250 in the afternoon and when I went to the gym at 530 they were winching the truck back on.
be driving it more then you. My wife is the same way. At first see was like you bought that piece of sh!#$. Now see loves to drive it.
