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Taught my 10yr old to drive for the first time. The vehicle of choice was a no brainer.

And then a bit of a side quest, pedals. Sorted the clutch pedal position and stuff, but decided I wanted to spruce it up a bit. Laser cut 3mm Polished up Then stacked and welded, then welded to the actual pedal arms. A bit of paint and re...

My 61 has more than a few fasteners that were without doubt yellow/gold cad.

She ran! Fuel pump went kaput on me when she was idle....so a new one and she's getting gas to the carb now. Looks like my oil pan gasket must have dried also because I have a new small leak there. Perhaps it will settle down with a little...

Last time she gets rotated like this....an experiment...and going back together... She got one last rotation all around to slosh the fluid film and wool wax into all the crevices. In this picture you can also see an experiment I'm running with...

Re-assembly underway. I really need to be focusing on getting it running, but all these shiny restored and new parts have me distracted. I did manage to mount the brake booster/master cylinder and clutch master to the firewall so there's that...

Thanks for the update!!

Happy to report we are running like a top! Fixed the ground cable from battery to block. Scratched the paint off block and re made the end connection. It was a little loose. It still ran like crap after I did that. I had posted my data on the...

If they’ve seen my 40 they’d not be surprised. After driving down the Washington - Oregon - California coast I was ready to leave LA. On the way out of LA I decided to see if I could keep up with traffic on the freeway. With 31 x 10.50 Michelin...

@OKMike , any updates(lol)?

We were visiting family in Anchorage for a couple weeks so haven’t gotten much done. Not complaining my favorite brewery is there, Midnight Sun. I did get the tailgate on. Also making progress on the hood. Underside of the hood is done and the...

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With the discussions above about driving a 40 series at higher speeds, please understand that for me and most of us, it was simply a test of a few performance modifications that were important to determine the value. The sniper efi, Hyperspark...

Retro sound has a remote head cable that will allow the faceplate to be alot more compact and lighter. Space behind the dash is limited. The stereo “head unit” mounts nicely to the underside of the glovebox...

If I close my eyes, I can get an extra 5mph.

You could convince a rookie trooper that his radar was wrong pretty easily, lol. “80mph in this?”

Have any pics?

For sale: 1978 Landcruiser FJ40 Milage: 77055.2 Color: Mustard Yellow Location: Boise, ID Title: Clean, ID title Asking: $10,500 The Good: -Period correct 70's mods; CB radio antenna, WARN "belleview" Winch, functions, needs solenoid and...

I finally had all seats ready to reinstall into the empty 40. I can't tell you how happy I am with the upgrade- not only the looks but they're so damn comfortable. It took me 3 years to get to it, wish I had done it sooner. I think it took me...

Well, this is without at steering stabilizer…..😂 But, being curious about the potential s of my speed racing box…I took it out this afternoon on the same super highway with the same limited preparation It speaks for itself and I can say, trying...

Some preventive maintenance before it gets put back together.

@knuckle47, that is about tops for me in my 73. The top of the doors start pushing out about there. Kind of scary but will make a great news story when a tire blows and I die in the fiery crash.

Long ones, short ones, diesel ones, gas ones....

There's cruisers up in them there mountains.

Al didn’t mention this was without a steering stabilizer…..