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Your battery is in a high impact zone and can catch fire in a crash. Most Warn winches have 2 or more solenoids for that reason(stuck solenoid). You do need to inspect for stuck solenoids in your maintenance routine so you don't have the fire hazard. If you are running a single solenoid you...

Use more than one solenoid if you are worried about a failed solenoid.

It's hard to condense 16 years of working on the FJ40 into two or three paragraphs and keep it in line. Mark thanks for the responce on the head. Degonal thanks! I just happen to have a complete 1976 FJ40 that I can copy. Will the 76 valve cover go on the F motor?

Basically the valves could never be adjusted to spec. If you did, the engine would run like it had a race cam in it. It would idle with a bad shake. If you put your hand over the exhaust it would be popping out instead of a smooth flow. It still had pretty good power on top. Since I had...

Hello, First question posted here so bear with me. I have a 1974 FJ40 that has a stock F head on it. I just picked up a 1976 2F head for the valve cover alone. I have been searching for info on the valve cover and found I may be able to put the entire 2F head on my block. Has anybody done this...

Do you let it sit for long periods? My 74 get mad at me for letting it sit for long periods. If I drive it to work every day, those things don't happen as much or at all. Cold winters seem to be rough on the brake system especially if it gets no use. No tech here but just what I've found...

I believe that, but is this the only place you operate from? I called to have a carb done and buy some other items but could never get you on the phone. Do you still have the roof racks? I think you took them off the website. Curt

I have this same setup(1974) and did the 2.31($200) transfer with the Non-USA 4 speed($500) and am running 33x10.50x15 tires with 4.11 diffs. It's an OK trail setup at 48 to 1. I still need the park brake (about 2 clicks after contact) on super steep downhills. Uphill is fine, actually close...

I think that's how you learn(also learn from those dreaded mistakes) about your vehicle and what makes it tick. It's nice knowing most of how the vehicle is put together so when you decide to take it apart with a bang! you can fix it on trail. You may even get to "learn" about those...

Is the power valve port plugged with a cap? I think that needs vacume off the intake manifold. I thought that the carb would be rich in that situation(power valve open). I may be 180 off without checking book.

Did the carb ever run good, and when did it go south? Did it just start running rich? Could you have mis-fueled it with a can of diesel?(I've done that). Is the fuel OK? When you say the carb had jets reversed how did you figure that out? Maybe they were correct in the first place.

Before you do anything find some Mcguires #2 in the tan bottle. It is really a great cleaner polisher with a slow circular wheel and hand application, works on glass too! You won't believe the results on chrome as well. If I'm not worn out from the job I will seal with mothers carnuba wax.