Recent content by JramFJ

Awesome. I have a white 1988 FJ62. Looking for a hood due to tree damage from a tornado.

Is the hood still available and if so, price? Depending on where in VA, I could pick up. Thanks!

I'm looking for a good body shop to help repair our beast. We had a tornado rip through our place on Thursday and destroy 3 cars. Our LC suffered the least amount of damage mainly because it's made of steel! From the initial look, it's going to be a windshield, hood repair, and A Pillar. The...

I installed the long spline "McNamara" gear when I was installing a "newer" transmission and still had the clunk. I also developed a hard shift into second gear after a while as well as the reverse clunk. After about 6 months of living with it, I decided to set the throttle cable and kick down...

8 years later and this post was clutch. Replaced the kickdown cable on my FJ62 and now this baby shifts like a new car. It even cured my reverse clunk (yes, I even have the McNamara gear upgrade). Thank you so much for this tech write-up. It gave me the confidence to tackle it myself. Only...

Great looking truck. I have a white 88 myself with the original 3FE. Would absolutely love a 5.3 in mine. After I saw this listing, I immediately starting doing some bar napkin math after a few - if I sell mine for "x" how can I buy this one ASAP... or maybe I just buy this one and swap all my...

Godwin, Tackled this fix yesterday and it all worked out thankfully. Drilling and tapping into a 36 year old block was a little scary. Thanks again for the quick diagnosis. Much appreciated!

@Eporter I just finished the job. Thank you for the great write-up. Only issue I ran into was the right angle drive attachment I ordered from Dewalt only takes hex bits. For the life of me I couldn't find an F drill bit with a hex. Ended up just buying a right angle drill. Drilling and tapping...

Good deal. I'm ordering all the parts now. Hoping to tackle it soon. Thanks again

I hear you on nerve racking. I'm not looking forward to the tapping, but it has to get done. Last time I tapped something this critical was on aircraft stuff in the Air Force long ago. Thanks again for the tips. Going to tackle it this weekend.

This is a great thread. I was lucky and had my plug blow at a grocery store that's 2 miles from my house. Made it home and contemplating going this threaded plug route. Seems like a no brainer to do it, but I'm a little nervous about the tapping after disconnecting everything to a point that I...

Looking and reading about it more closely. There's likely no threads on mine now and the plug just popped out. Folks go back and add a threaded plug to prevent this from happening again. Hey, I'm learning!

Sure enough, I went out and looked. I wonder how it would have backed out. Looks like the threads are in good shape. Maybe I'll get lucky and will just be able to thread a new one back in. I'm not that lucky so expecting a job. Thanks again!

Thanks for the quick reply. I'm digging into posts now on how to replace it. From the initial take, it looks like I'll have to be real careful and may have to do some drilling and tapping if it's original. Thanks again.

Does anyone ever seen this type of leak on a 3FE off a FJ62? Valve cover gasket? Haven't started to dig in, but wanted to post this for some initial thoughts before I tear into it. Thanks