middlecalf

Mid-life, eh? 😛

Retrieved the 1980 Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser from my mechanics garage yesterday evening. It’s been in storage for ~4 years. I limped it to a gas station, put in fresh gas and it woke up ready for adventure. I took it to a welder that I’ve met...

Finally dawned on me wrt reason for issue with clearance between brake arm and accelerator - different accelerator pedal.

Lot’s of hub knowledge in Longmont CO in those days. Maybe there needs to be hub museum 😉.

going from memory, when I had the rig. original engine had the head off for many years before I got it and was a solid block of metal sourced 1F from roma in Alabama? and dropped it in the frame as a complete unit.

Reinstalled.

Bold move! 👍👏👏 Welding a broken TNK wiper arm (🐓🦷🦷)

Plain ol' cardboard works too...

Truck came with one.

Piece of 🍰 wrt repairing that rust given what you’ve already been through with the bed. Wiring, well that’s a different ballgame 😳. Looking closer at your engine bay pics. Looks like you still have the voltage regulator that has the switching...

Our ‘63s are very close cousins. Previous owner(s) did the same thing with mine and swapped in a later motor at some point. Block casting is stamped 040201 (Feb ‘64) and number is 193342, so I’d guess your F is mid- to late ‘64. I would have...

Original engine #

Is that the original motor (#’s match those on the vin tag)? If you don’t mind, what are the numbers? Keeping the tin cups? Are they sound? I’m lazy, been following this build, but don’t remember (and I’m lazy 😛), what’s going back in motor-wise?

D'oh!! Wish I knew that this morning cause now it's too late :( tried to get it out and this happened. anyone know how to weld cast?

Why not, once I clean everything up its going to look cool.

That looks about the same distance as from the retaining clip groove to the top of the seal/bearing? For what that’s worth 😂.

Generator, idiot lights?

Just accidentally found something else the parts 64 is going to donate to the 61. The brake pedal location has been annoying.

Scroll back up a few posts and admire my seized solid water pump and then praise crc for creating evaporust. And thanks to Jeremiah Proffitt for talking about it at cruiserfest this year. I avoid all the snake.oils so it's awesome when someone...

You're going back in time with Bud Lillys fly shop! That's not the one though.

Big Sky (Bud Lilly’s)?

Madison River?

@Pighead agree it will probably sit on the shelf a while longer as the old style is still cranking

Maybe don't be in such a hurry to swap in the GR starter. I tried one, it failed after only 10 years. I went back to the old-fashioned big starter, it does everything I want and I like it's sound better. I carry a GR as a trail spare, haven't...

Nope