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By the time I got it all back home, I was straight back to work and didn’t get any garage time up until this weekend! I made sure the old man and Heath were ready to get some good garage time in and off we went! First job back was to get back to the firewall and get rid of the tar like mess...

Wow, it’s nearly been a month since I gave you all an update. Just before leaving to go to New Zealand, I found an ad online for someone selling a 2F that looks in great shape for a price I couldn’t say no to! I contacted him and told him I would drive the 5 hours round trip to pick it up from...

You always need something to fuel the build ;)

I have always loved old 4X4s. Modern 4X4s like the new land cruisers, patrols etc are fantastic long distance vehicles... but there is a special feeling you have when driving old irons. You have a much closer connection to the vehicle and without power steering and air conditioning, the...

We start this next update on a bit of a tangent. A few months ago, Heath and I drove well over 1000km’s in a single day to pick up a project for him, a 1942 Ford GP ‘Jeep’ that previously belonged to the US Ordnance Division during the Vietnam war and somehow ended up on a little property in the...

Im not going to take the tub off in order to do the rebuild. Now that the motor and box are out, accessibility is pretty amazing for under body work.

Thanks mate, its great to have a community you can rely on for even the most obscure question about these little beasts. I hope you enjoy watching the build come together!

I had a look at some 2F's ranging from $250 through to about $1500, which would be cheaper and easier... until of course something starts going wrong soon after the install. :bang:

Thanks for that. Great thing about something like this as a father son project is that once we are done, we can throw in some gear in the back and enjoy the fruits of our labour out bush

Thanks mate. Its nice to know she wont become another FJ40 statistic :D but its still a long road ahead. We are looking at going for a Dune beige-ish colour, but with slight gloss to bring her into the modern world

I had no intentions on doing a ‘back to chassis’ restoration. I appreciate people who have the dedication, but I just don’t have appetite to pull the tub off. Obviously with a bottom end knocking, it was only sensible that the motor should get a full rebuild (the old man and I agreed that we...

The 2f had been sitting for a while, so we next gave that a good pressure clean. You would be amazed at what came out of that engine bay… Before After the pressure clean (and different battery) This car had become what I would call ‘spider city’. There were dozens of Red Back spider...

I was excited about undertaking this challenge, but I was most excited about being able to complete this as a Father/Son project. I knew this would mean something special to the old man, and getting the opportunity to spend countless hours working on a joint project was something I knew we would...

I bought my first project car soon after that, a 1978 Jeep CJ7 with a Ford V8 power plan. This was my first project/build and loved spending all the free time I could drinking beers in his garage as we pulled it down and fixed it all up (to be fair, although it wasn’t running, it wasn’t in bad...

I remember my old man, an Air Force engineer and skilled outdoors man, telling me fond stories of his FJ40, his first car from way back when. He grew up in the Australian desert where the sand is mostly blood red and life is sparse. Toyota, although Japanese, is seen as an Australian automotive...