And it’s been a very long time since I’ve done that type of work on a FJ40. Like, late 1980’s long time.
But I do remember the “ticking” sound when there is a exhaust gasket leak. But how much work is it to take the manifolds off? I don’t have the original carb and air filter installed, I’ve...
They claim to be (and are) much brighter than the original bulbs in the panel, but they are still incandescent and not LED. I took my Cruiser out for a test drive Friday and after a couple of times around the block I went to a store about 10 miles round trip away. When I came out and started the...
I've got the whole unit down to individual parts and there is some light rust on the surface of the metal front face of the Gauge/Speedo cover that means now would be the time to sand/repaint it. My FJ40 is a 1976 and I would describe the color as a muted silver right now. I could just paint it...
I had dis-assembled the entire Instrument panel and had taken the odometer shaft out. The video from the 40 channel that showed the disassembly of the instrument cluster stops right after it shows you how to remove the entire numbers shaft from the support frame, and stops there without showing...
I had a massively deformed driver side defroster vent, which i managed to get round enough to get the defroster tube onto it. When cleaning up I found the item pictured below on the floor mat. Its plastic, about 20 mm x 20 mm square and not quite 18 mm tall. I can't find anything that looks like...
I need the part that the defroster hose for the left drivers side needs to be slid onto. This is what the tube side of my current one looks like:
This is where the defroster tube from the heater plugs into for the windshield defrost outlet. The one on the passenger side seems to be in ok...
Next item on my list I have a small opening at the junction of the top of the windshield, the door column, and the top of the windshield frame. From SOR I THINK I found the gasket piece that goes there, but I don't know for sure. The part number on Specter is 108-04, and the part looks like...
I have a heater post but this is specific for an FJ40 Front Heater Restore kit the I bought from SOR, and probably could be answered by anyone with a 74-80 FJ40 that has used it. There are 3 foam pads that obviously have to go on the internal heater doors, and then a long 29 inch long 2 7/8ths...
This has been a cascading situation. I was going to remove my heater because I don't get air out of the defrost ducts even with the fan obviously working, no matter where I set the heat lever to on the heater. Getting ready to pull out the heater and I noticed that I had fluid leaking out of my...
There are some things I knew I needed to get fixed and a few that I didn't. The following is my tentative list and the order I intend to work on it. Note that some of the things higher on the list may not be as important but are things I can get done by myself in a weekend and cold weather...
This is another case of I don't remember as much as I thought I did. The vent control has 3 words on the selection, but I only have 2 actual settings. I knew that the defrost vents didn't seem to get any air when I bought the Cruiser a couple of months ago. The 3 setting for the air select are...
I'm going to get new exhaust system Friday. The current system ends underneath the drivers compartment pretty far in front of the drivers rear tire. I'm not trying to replicate all of the components but is there someplace I can get a layout of how my model year originally ran? The shop I took...
I have what I think are original style round mirrors that attach to the upper door hinge mounts on both driver and passenger doors. The view field on them is rather limited and they don’t stay adjusted for very long. But reading online I’ve seen that you can replace the mirror heads themselves...
I bought my first FJ40 in 1976, it was a 67 soft top. I owned 2 more through the 70's and early 80's, until I bought my 3rd in the late 80's and for the first time actually did a rebuild. Somewhere I have pictures of that rebuild. I just bought my 4th one, after many, many years: A 1976 cruiser...