ranchdawg

Not a lot to report this weekend. The head was dropped off at Yota1 in Riverbank for a once over. Then I got to cleaning some stuff in my high tech parts soaker. And then I finished removing the rivets from my replacement front crossmember.

Got my popcorn going. Really interested in this wakeup. Looks like a lot of "fun". Glad it is you and not me. Good luck!

My tendency with a new to me old motor is to get it running and then do a leak down and compression test to see what condition it's in. With it apart like you have it now the more chance crud will get down in the cylinders from having removed the...

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More photos of cylinders… If anyone would like to chime in and assess what I have. First time for me looking at something like this, but it looks like water was getting into the cylinders at some point? And do I need to dig any deeper, or would...

Got around to getting the head off today. All in all, everything came off fine. Exhaust side head bolts were a lot of fun to remove, the other side no issues at all.

The second thing that jumps out at you is the smog pump. Rather, the NLA only one time produced smog pump bracket that was attached to the motor mount with two extra large nuts. Gonna need a new smog bracket I think.

I think mine sat for 11+ years. Fresh gas and scraped the points. Pulled the plugs and cranked it over until it built oil pressure. Put them back in and it fired right up. Installed new clutch master, slave and hose. New master and slaves...

The first thing that jumps out at you is the front crossmember. This rig hit something somewhere prior to my ownership and this was the resulting patch job. You can seen the driver’s side frame horn is a little tweaked. I have a new crossmember...

I have been tearing down the engine bay to get to the head. I have found some interesting things along the way. My plans are to pop the head off, get it refreshed, and work on some other areas that need attention. Plans are to desmog the engine...

It’s been 21 years since my 06/75 FJ40 has seen the road. Time to wake it up. I don’t even have a photo of it put together except for my avatar photo, so I can’t even show you what it looked like when it was running. Backstory…I bought my rig...

One addition we added was something I had never seen before, so it might be a first. If it is, then i suppose it could be called the Aloha Jen spare tire brake light. The inspiration for this came from an article I was reading about how most...