After selling my 80 series to start my business two years ago I'm really happy to be back in a cruiser.
It's a '67, I picked it up from Winnemucca, NV. Hasn't ran in a few (5?) years and needs a lot of work. Plans are to sort out the mechanicals...
leaving tomorrow in the 40 on a 70 day, 5,000 mile journey up into the pacific northwest.... will report back in a few weeks with some details and on the road fixes for the noise....
thus far, dynamat, carpet pad, carpet, clear rtv, truckers...
I drove it for the first time ever! I bought her in 2013 in need of everything and here we are today. Still have many things on the list but now we can go places.
My boys @Cowboy45 (16) and @SipLife (19) built a fan shroud for Hades (green 1972 FST). It had an electric fan set up that was just not suited for Texas. We busted butt in the barn at 110F to knock it out. New to SBCs, as are the boys. Initial...
The comments that shadylane guy is posting make me uncomfortable as a land cruiser enthusiast. I hope you get the fortune you deserve for that build - it’s an incredible truck, but I hope that guy doesn’t win it! 😉
Trying to get the kids interested in old cars. Right now she’s mostly into air-cooled beetles but I’m hoping she comes around on the 40.
She did ask me the other night if I could buy a “rusty beetle car so she could fix it with me” so I think...
Daycare was closed for an extra day after the 4th so I took the day off to watch the kids. My oldest wanted to wash a car, so the 40 got volunteered while the youngest was napping.
Changed out the radiator on my '82 FJ43 this weekend. A previous owner must’ve stripped out the radiator bolt and covered it in caulk or something because it was nowhere to be found when I began the flushing process:
Got an OEM unit installed...
Collector car plate in Minnesota, just can not use it to go to work, and must have another car registered in Minnesota. I’m retired so the work thing dose not matter.
I regularly do the same with my 21’ long ambulance. A standard space is only 21’ long so I’ve got very good at parallel parking. I’ve had people yell at me saying I hit their car… when I called them on it, they acknowledged I was close… very close.
Finished my onboard air install.
Everything starts with ARB twin cylinder air compressor. I built a shelf to mount it on and it turns out I've bolted a lot to this shelf including the fuse for the switch pros, breaker for the stereo amps, relay...
Changed fuel filter, adjusted the throttle cable, and parallel parking in NYC - both drivers had space behind them, so I wasn’t blocking them in!
Tourists were filming the park, so I had to make it!
I have a troll hole worked great for years until it sucked up a bunch of crap from an aux rear gas tank I installed, purchased a City Racer carb, works great. Just received rebuilt by Jim Chenoweth. I like having backup parts 😀
I'm no longer selling carbs many because I just don't have the time to support them and the ability to get them from my original manufacture. Sold over 3000 carbs and of those maybe 2-3% may have been something wrong with the carb. As I'm sure...
Made another beach trip with the 40.
Also, my son's girlfriend sent some awesome 40 artwork.
And in the spirit of MUD, our kids and friends ended up in the marsh.
I got my '78 40 just before memorial day, it was a 20th wedding anniversary gift for my wife and it's been a marathon of work. My spreadsheet shows 104 repairs/adjustments made since getting it home. From hooking up the oil pressure sender and...
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