Saturday I finished pulling the remaining parts off the FZJ80 in preparation for the Hotsy bath.
a few hours of pressure washing with hot hot water and some deep purple and the chassis turn out looking newer than a 94 chassis.
27 OCT 2019:
Saturday’s are for the boys and breaking down this 94 FZJ80.
Got the interior taken out in a hour.
...... 8 hours later
I learned a lot to say the least.
more to come next week:
Operation HOTSY!!
Finish prepping all things 40 for the blasting of the sand.
Some more shots of the 12HT sitting on the mounts with the manual steering box sitting nice and snug next to the turbo.
After getting the 12HT set to where we thought was good, we took her out, put her back in storage for the time being and continued with the taking apart of whitey.
12 hours...
Fast forward to last Saturday, a hot day in California in October and take whitey down to just the chassis commenced.
^^^^^^^^^^^couple hours in ^^^^^^^^^
Out with the old ....
And ....
Mock up with the not as old 12HT to get engine mounts marked on the chassis.
Aug 31st finally rolled around and the crate from overseas finally arrived!!
some more pictures of the mock up before being packaged up and shipped below.
He also included a custom 3inch exhaust, dumping it out just before the rear driver side tire, a brand new radiator and intercooler...
So I started with a 75 BJ40 with the original B engine and 4 spd transmission in June of 2018.
I quickly realized that driving this underpowered tractor in California I was going to need to find something to give it a little more pep in its step so I attempted to put a turbo kit on this...