Recent content by psychobilly7

I feel like I won the lottery. Found a cracked headlight and and AC is R-12 but blows cold.

Took a bunch of pictures , bought a manual , stared patching door rust. going to remove trailer hitch it has more rust than rest of truck. I love the sparkplug wires.

You might be right all the adds are showing a big old wallet and a little new one.

I guess I can follow the format 1. 1993 FZJ80 2. Lafe 3. Has not been christened yet. 4. 116000 miles 5. broken fog lights and antique viper security system. 6. was a kid and dog hauler soon to become escape from reality vehicle and material hauler. 7. I hate the red but love everything else...

I feel so lame i'm getting back into working on the cruiser after about 17 years and don't want to screw things up. I let the engine machinist put the engine together and now question everything. flushed the tank , now moving to heaters.

when I put the cam back in the marks on the timing gears matched up. with #1 at TDC. Can that be done in 2 different orientations? When I started taking it apart I had dizzy set pointing to about #4 plug valves 1 an 2 closed at TDC , but cam timing mark was out 180.

I did a 360 turn of the crank and valve appear to be where they need to be to allow adjusting . Thanks

I went out and pulled side cover to see if the lifter were stuck, but with crank at TDC 7 and 9 are up.

To make a long story shorter about 17 years ago my 76 fj40 snapped the crank . I found a local shop that had removed a 2F out of a 82 fj60, so I thought have that machined instead. I bought a DUI distributor, and Downey cam and valve springs. It went to the machine shop, we started having kids...