franklin40

No progress yet. I have been working on it a little in CAD but haven't had time to do anything. Its on my mind though.

just checking in on this again. any progress of fj62 headlight bezels? i have your grill already but my aftermarket headlight surrounds are broken/flaking. if i know yours are coming i’ll hold off getting another crappy set for now

gotta turn down the smoke a little. the fuel screw is turned too high!!

look who’s home!!! so happy to finally have it back and running. 1hdt rebuilt, h55 rebuilt and rear diff rebuilt! now for a few cosmetics again and maybe it’ll go another 650 000km!!

My dad would call this a “rest cure”

a little more weirdness today. my speedometer stopped working last winter. it bounced for a while and then just gave up. i figured its the tranny gear. well while i was under it fixing the starter i thought id check it out. i pulled the speedo...

beauty. i love my 77. i have to agree with @pb4ugo about the plow. unless you’re actually going to use it as a plow i’d lose it. there a lot going on in the front end there. personally i prefer the look of a clean front. the fj40 grill/bib is so...

Welcome aboard. You have a very nice and solid starting point. It's great that it stays in the family. Love the stripes, but hate the plow attachment. I'd retire that. The 40 should clean up nicely. It looks very complete. Get it running...

went to drive red to work sunday and my starter literally broke in half. heard it just free spinning so climbed under and the body was hanging off the wires and the mounting block was still on the engine. it’s a proform mini starter. the mounting...

Update, shift leaver and derailleur came in today. I’m going to swap out the X0 electric for these mechanical and keep the X0 crank+cassette+chain. Boring part, with fall fully set in and rain/snow in the forecast every day in the 14 day...

Honestly measure your fj40 height now and add 1”. (Height changes per radius not diameter)

Meh, big bumper, bright lights, stay alert. Wait until you come across a herd of elk at night, or a lone moose crossing the road, those stupid swamp donkeys don't give a crap, and are basically invisible, even with lights on them.

You can use any hub (j-bend or straight pull) but the j-bend need hub prep that is detailed on their web site (I did this once and it is easy). The set I just built I used the hooked hubs from Berd which make the build super easy. If you do a...

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now your got my interest!! i’ve never seen these but they look awesome!! do you need a special hub or can they work with standard hubs too? i havent researched at all so i just thought i’d ask instead!! 🤣

you can use a saws all inside too so there no collar damage. once you’ve made the kerf they’ll be loose enough you should be able to hammer them out.

Here she is. It's always been in the Southeast, first in NC then in TN and in GA for the last few years. It was originally blue. Sometime in the 2000's it was painted the current color scheme, the interior was redone, OME suspension was...

awesome bumpers but i’ve had a heck of a time with my spindles. even using 3 in one oil mine seized so bad i had to cut them off. so i have new spindles for bearings im going to install instead of the bushings. i dont know why it happened to me...

pretty flat where i live unless i go into the river valley! and yeah i’m screwing you guys up with all my metric measurements!!

Kommie feet!

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Man.... 98FT. I get that walking out of my door. :lol:

weather is cooling down here a little so had a nice longer ride. funny how when you take away headwinds and going up hill the distance really isn’t that hard!

I've had the same ones for 14(?) years now; still as good as ever:

forgot to update this one. I did a drain and fill of the fluid and also replaced the breather with a new OEM part for a 100 series rear diff. Problem is gone.