Recent content by nelsonto

I want to give an update regarding my FJ. I must give a huge shout out to @matzell as Rob did an outstanding job going through the entire vehicle and of course fixing the frame. Rob was just outstanding and maybe the most impressive thing was his continual follow up with me to keep me informed...

Just dropped the FJ40 off with @matzell. Rob was very helpful and informative. I really enjoyed talking with him and look forward to his working on the truck. Thank you Rob!

I live in Northern VA but the vehicle is at my lakehouse in Clarksville VA.

Jon, I can’t thank you enough for taking a look at the truck. I am going to get it over to Rob and go from there. What a great forum....

Love to do some fishing with you folks on Kerr. My lakehouse is on the north side of Clarksville where the Dan and Staunton rivers meet and enter the lake. Have done well with stripers and cats and my favorite which is lunker size crappies. Growing up in Wisconsin my favorite is to ice fish...

No offense at all. I have no problem with it as I appreciate the help people like yourself are providing and hopefully I can pay it forward with some knowledge that I have in other areas...

Well the $15-17K also includes new brakes on all 4 wheels and a new clutch. I still think it’s too high as well and that is why I am hoping I can get someone local to take a look at it and then I can look around for who to ship it too in order to do the work at a reasonable cost.

I hear you although I am hoping this one can be saved.

NCFJ, as the OP, I agree with you. Yes, I am a Newby at this but everyone is a newby at something. I very well could be missing things and the shop may be accurate for all I know. That’s why I will look to get a second opinion and go from there. I don’t have any ill will towards this shop at...

I have put up a post in the NC Cruiser group to see if I can someone local to go down to the shop to give me a second opinion. For sure over the next few weeks I will get it shipped somewhere else.

Thanks and I understand your point. Maybe however the truck is really in that bad of shape or I maybe am missing something so once I can get a second opinion then I’ll know for sure if it’s a crazy quote.

I’ll send u a pm. I would rather not reference them in the forum as that would be a bit unfair.

Yes, the quote was from an off road shop. I really liked the folks but as some have suggested maybe this is not a project they want to do at this time.

Thank you, I’ll look for someone closer in northern NC but if I don’t find anyone I will definitely look up these folks in SC.

Hello, I was talking with S4Cruiser this evening regarding my FJ40 Frame Issue that I have on my recently purchased 40 (see my post in the 40s technical section). The vehicle is at a shop in Raleigh and I was hoping to find someone that could go look at the vehicle and give me their thoughts...