What did you do with your 60 this weekend? (28 Viewers)
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Helped @cruiserinsanity get the 3FE on a cradle. 3FE is looking good. We painted the timing marks on the cam and crank gears. Next up rear of motor stuff and slapping on the timing cover.
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Preparing for this years GSMTR I finally got a fridge/freezer after years of wanting one
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Pulled the head on my 87 2f. It didn't overheat, just puked steam and was shut down within seconds thanks to @Mesa Woman 's quick reaction! It needed new valve guides anyway.
Helped with this 1985 3FE Swapped FJ60, a Refresh - https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/1985-3fe-swapped-fj60-a-refresh.1309046/ @cruiserinsanity is doing most of the actual work.
Popped out the old pilot bearing using the bread trick, installed new pilot bearing and RMS.
Paint marks on pointer in bellhousing and on flywheel
Used an old gutted distributor to set the pump drive before installing the distributor.
Popped out the old pilot bearing using the bread trick, installed new pilot bearing and RMS.
Paint marks on pointer in bellhousing and on flywheel
Used an old gutted distributor to set the pump drive before installing the distributor.
I learned this weekend how damned convenient it is to do a gravity bleed on your brakes when all you're doing is flushing new fluid through; just takes a while. So I got that done and adjusted my valves (which I HATE doing because it slaughters my hands and it's a serious PITA to keep the gasket in place on the valve cover when you fight to put it back).
Weird thing is most of my valves were WAY too tight this time around. I had to back them way out to get them dialed in. Typically if I adjust on a cold engine in cooler weather I add 0.002" to the settings, or if it's 80 or above I'll add 0.001". Today on a cold engine (80 degrees outside) I couldn't even get the normal hot engine feelers under the rockers. Seems weird that they got tighter as the components wore over three years since I last did the valves (using cool weather numbers then since it was early spring).
All good now though....
Weird thing is most of my valves were WAY too tight this time around. I had to back them way out to get them dialed in. Typically if I adjust on a cold engine in cooler weather I add 0.002" to the settings, or if it's 80 or above I'll add 0.001". Today on a cold engine (80 degrees outside) I couldn't even get the normal hot engine feelers under the rockers. Seems weird that they got tighter as the components wore over three years since I last did the valves (using cool weather numbers then since it was early spring).
All good now though....
Very nice work. I absolutely love Optrel hoods too. Won't use anything else when I'm tig welding.
Man i will never use a different hood for anything else now. Its really nice being able to actually see! haha
Is that the road to Fenton lake?
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How do the brakes feel?
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I'm never good with brake 'feel' questions but definitely a significant improvement compared to a (presumably tired) stock booster.
It's not quite as good as I need it to be (Aussie regulations) but it's very close and it was well off with the stock booster.
while camping with friends, our cruiser typically ends up as kitchen central during dinner prep, and then later it becomes cocktail party central after dinner. hence - 5+ years of that and the carpet on the tailgate was pretty gross.
so - why not turn it into a functional cutting board surface? I ordered a custom sized chunk of Richlite and then used a trim router to follow the pattern of the old cardboard and made an epicurean cutting board for the tailgate.
so - why not turn it into a functional cutting board surface? I ordered a custom sized chunk of Richlite and then used a trim router to follow the pattern of the old cardboard and made an epicurean cutting board for the tailgate.
@Paul DiNapoli Any detail on your mounting hardware? Stainless tek screw?
yeah - stainless sheet metal screws for now.
i had visions of using a forstner bit to make little recesses in the cutting board for stylish button head screws, or maybe allen head nuts, but my wife suggested those will just get impacted with food / sand / dirt. so i kept it simple and just pre-drilled small holes for sheet metal screws and secured it down that way.
also - the richlite cutting board material i ordered was only 1/4" thick - so I didnt think i'd have that much meat in the material to hog out with a forstner bit before simply going all the way through.
if you look a the back side of the old door card - there's a ton of holes you could use:
another idea I had was to maybe use rivet nuts in the holes that are already present for the plastic door panel clips...but those holes are pretty large diameter so that's an issue too.
stainless sheet metal screws made it quick and easy.
here's the details on the cutting board material I ordered:
1/4" Thick BLACK Richlite Custom Cutting Board
BLACK Richlite High Temp Cutting Board (1/4 Inch Thick). Get the exact size cutting board that you need. We manufacture our cutting boards to the exact size you need
www.cuttingboardcompany.com
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Drivetrain specs? Don't think I've seen this one yet.
