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I cannot emphasize enough how much you should not pour abrasives into your engine. Any engine. Ever. Don't do that. The time for machine work is prior to assembly.

Me too!

Got a hood with 784 fewer rust holes (aka none) from Mark at Mark's Offroad, a brand new 22 gallon tank from Aero Tanks and bought some door bows from a Mud member. Also filled the tank on my welder (which of course had to be replaced due to...

FWIW, I think for most vehicles OEM weatherstripping is the best. There are at least a few vendors who sell aftermarket weatherstripping for FJ40s, but the quality can be described as "iffy". For example, despite what their website claims, I've...

Nice rig! I need to replace all of my weather seals on my 72 also. Here's what I'm getting from City Racer. I would include part numbers but your truck is a later model than mine and will need different seals in several places. Obviously, you...

Are they going to offer a 4" kit for those of us with 35" tires?

That’s a smoking deal.

I give up my first dibbies, I thought it was a Downey tank.

Will do.

I'm reminded of one of those car ads from the past - No only do we stand behind our product, we will stand in front of it - car braking hard from like 120 mph to a dead stop just feet from the engineer's. The Aero Tank folks are local to me -...

Mike told me that it's been a while since he sold one of these and he's looking for the file with the instructions in it. If I get them, I'll share them here. Would you do the same? The website is not great. I talked to him, let him know that...

I really appreciate it but I have to pass. I just bought this new tank. But thank you again. That's excatlty what I was looking for before I bought mine. It looks like Jim (Downey) is interested in it though.

So I bought this tank because Jim doesn't have tanks anymore and they never go up for sale. The day I bring it home, a Downey tank comes up for sale. and Jim is going to buy it, thus disproving my theory that they never come up for sale and Jim...

No thanks, I just bought this tank. But I would have been all over it a week ago.

Got my tank from mike at Aero Tanks today. Less than a week since i placed the order. I picked it up in person so I had a chance to chat with mike. Nice guy. First Impressions: This thing is BEEFY! Definetly at least as heavy as my old Con...

I don't think it'll be a problem but I'll let everyone know.

Agreed. That's why I initially passed them up. But once I ran out of choices, I gave them a call.

I really wanted a Downey tank for my 72 but he isn't making them anymore. I thought I had an old Con Fer tank but it's disappeared over the years. Neither tank comes up on the used market very often and Jim (Downey) warned me against the style...

Yes. I recently discovered that they are called "Door Bows" and I'm missing them too. They are 2 piece affair, inner and outer. Looks like you may already have the inners.

Very true. There is a lot of expertise here and all they ask for in return is lots of pictures.

70 PSI is low. It sounds like you've redone the head so my suspicion is that the rings (piston rings) are worn. Pull a spark plug, squirt some engine oil down into the cylinder and repeat the compression test. If the numbers go up...

3000 pounds per axle will work for me.

I like that last one. I had a 1954 Willys wagon with a Studebaker 289. I miss it.