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Location: OKC, OK Price: $12,000 I purchased this FJ40 in Central America 2 years ago and have gone through a very thorough restoration project. I have detailed the rebuild project in the following thread on Ih8mud and suggest that you read through it if you are interested in this...

Responses..... Sorry for the length of time to resond to the questions, have been traveling. Hugh -- It took ~9 mos. This was with working on it pretty much every day - either wrenching or looking for parts. And yes, I drive it all over the place in El Sal. It is my daily driver...

"Finished Product Not sure if this 40 will ever truly be "finished", but it is going to be like this for awhile... All new badging all the way around the 40 Nice shot from the front. Hope I can keep the El Salvador plates when I take it back to the States. Front 3/4 shot...

Finishing Touches I went with unpainted stainless fastners for all exposed bolts. Not stock, but I like the look. This shot is from the driver door. There was no headliner when I got the 40, so I bought one from CCOT and hauled it down here. It went in easy and looks great. The 40...

Wishful Thinking My son joined me one day at the shop and thought that we were ready to drive out (reasonable thought given that we were 5 months into the project .... :D ) Had to break the news that there were no seats, and the drivetrain was not in place. Good shot of the refinished...

The Bumpers The bumpers were dented and cracked, and painted a strange shade of baby blue...not much to start with We went with a color that was not quite as pewter as original, but they still truned out well. This shot shows the driver read with the new lights, gaskets and rock guards...

Missing a few switches Not sure why there are so many holes in this dash. There was only one switch with the FJ40 when I bought it (headlights) and it did not work. Best I can tell based on my research, the South American 40s did not come with a heater, so there should be no "Warm Pull"...

Painting and wrenching The top had to be refinishing twice due to cracks in the rain gutter, but in the end it looked good. The reverse bezel issue is not just a US phenomena...this is how they installed it first. Getting the tranny in

The speedo on the instrument panel worked, but the odo, and all other gauges were non-functional. We were able to find the parts to fix each of the guages, but I could not find the gas sending unit and had to get one from the states. The painter did a nice job prepping and finishing the...

The engine The engine block was solid, but the rest was in rough shape. We replaced the Master Brake cylinder, water and oil pumps, distributer, condensor, points, spark plugs and wires, fuel filter, added a rebuilt 4 core radiator . Also rebuilt the engine with new rings, head gasket, etc...

Putting it back together.... We had all the pieces, rebuilt, sanded, primed and painted, now we had to get humpty dumpty back together again... Is it a bad thing if you have a box of parts leftover......? The tub is going back on the frame. Used new body mounts all around (thanks CCOT!)...

The passneger side hardtop was completely shot - too much rot to fix. We tried finding a replacement but everything down here (El Salvador) appeared to be in the same condition....so we made one. Here is a good shot of the start of the rebuild. This was the last piece of major bodywork...

Most of the body work on the tub is now done. We are putting it back together to see how everything fits. Once we got it back together, we had to make some adjustments to get the right panel alignment between all the new sheet metal. Specifically - tire carrier did not sit exactly right on...