Recent content by tltaylor22

Can I say I hate paint! I've rattle canned this rig for decades. Now it's time for real paint. I need opinions on single stage paint. Jones carries valspar and actually recommended thr TB550 industrial paint for dune Beige, $404 for a gallon of epoxy primer and a gallon of paint. Kwal carries...

Rough week moving my 30k ft factory to a new 150k ft facility, so not as much progress as I had hoped on the 40. Rapter lined under the tub so I can' get it back on the frame next week.

First off. @cruiseroutfit is awesome. Picked up the slave cylinder, tie rod ends and carb rebuild kit last week. We focused on the body work this weekend but installed the tie rods on as well. Maybe priming and painting this week. Maybe.

In my 76 FJ40 rebuild, the cable on my choke is unwinding and coming apart. Any tricks to replacing the cable and guide tube without buying an entirely now assembly?

The engine is back on the frame. The herculiner in slowly coming out of the tub. I'm looking to the next steps and know I need to replace my clutch slave cylinder. I'm running a 1f bell housing, Chevy clutch disk and I think a 2f fly wheel with an sm420. Something in the back of my mind had me...

Anyone have any thoughts on the thin vs thick c-clip above? Seems like if I use the stock thin one, the gear will move and cause front to back slop in the timing gear. I have a new thin one from Spector but have an OEM one I need to pick up from Carl Malone Toyota. I don't know if that one is...

So I pulled the cam out of my other 2f so I could use the cam thrust plate on the new 2f. The donor motor was the one I rebuilt 25 years ago that the machine shop messed up. That cam was an aftermarket cam with oil holes in both the second and third bearings. The plate had about .025" of space...

On a brighter note. Found a few photos of the cruiser from back in the mid 1990's when I used to be cooler and drive the old girl.

Pictures are good. Sometimes reality is bad. I was inspecting the cam shaft tonight and both tabs on the cam shaft thrust plate were cracked. They broke off easily. I've got a second 2f motor so it looks like I'll be robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Seems like I've confirmed that everything on the bearings are good. Last night the rings were installed on the pistons and the crank was installed in the block

New question. After verifying that my crank bearings and rod bearings are all ready to install, I was spraying carb cleaner through each oil hole in the block. I came across something that can't be right in my mind. The #2 cam bearing has two holes in it. One that goes between the crank and cam...

Alright. Slow progress. The head is fully rebuilt. Thanks to @cruiseroutfit for parts. The clylinders measure out in the middle of the spec for being overboard.020. New rings measure in the middle of the road as well. I plastigaged the main bearings and rod bearing. The rods look good but...

Interesting. You will have to explain to my simple mind how that seal works. I'll come see you. I'm calling the machine shop today.

I took apart the head that came on the donor motor. It has oem valves that look pretty good. It's been 25 yrs since I rebuilt a 2f. I'm assuming the brass valve guides are replacements? It also had some of the strangest valve seals I've seen. They didn't seal against the valve guide, just kind...