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House in back is our beach home in Shell Beach. Car will be our ride to Hot August Nights next week.

\ Sorry, I meant to say it was remanufactured in Canada. Can't tell what the core was. Bob

Stanger things have happened. Bob

Perhaps rebuilt in Canada? :-)

The number stamped on the block is : F 415351. As near as I can gather, it was built on or about November, 1972. If It is an F2, would it be stamped F2?

The carburetor is an Autoline general purpose carburetor part # C 833. It has a separate black spacer/adapter.

The wiring is a mess, Mark, and I told you I was planning on running steel fuel lines. I don't plan on driving it much until we get this nuances taken care of. I want to find out why the fuel pump doesn't work. I don't mind the electric fuel pump for now. I don't understand your major concern...

Yes, we found that out when we locked the front hubs and still wouldn't go into 4 wheel drive. We saw the "vacuum actuator" on the firewall and traced a cable coming from it that went to the dash and actuated it by either pulling or pushing on the knob (I forget).

Not too confident in giving it a good road test just yet, much less a "field" test, but my buddy drove it to his shop at 45-50mph. I'll look for part number on carb.

I'm back in SoCal to take a closer look at what I bought a 2-3 weeks ago. It's a 1968 Toyota FJ40 for sure, but it seems some liberties have been taken inside the engine compartment. Being a newbie in this forum, and with FJ 40's in general I want to share some pics of my engine bay. One thing...