I can't help with the tech aspects of an install/conversion for a 13B since that's how I bought mine, but here's some reference pics. Excuse my less-than-pristine engine bay.
Yell out if you need more.
It may be illegal to drive on the roads with the windscreen folded, but it's perfectly legal to drive with the doors off in NSW at least - because that's how some 40 Series cruisers were delivered from the factory back in the day. I've been pulled over for an RBT with no doors and all the cop...
Exactly right - Goodyear Custom Xtra-Grip Hi-Milers 7.50r16s
These are classic expedition tyres which are as 1970s as a pornstar moustache and are quite difficult to procure new Down Under.
If you're really motivated you can import them brand new from Goodyear Malaysia, but I got mine from an...
This is the closest I have seen which can be bought new...
From a site in the US, and much cheaper than an Aussie rip-off version.
Usually traditional swags were hand made by the user. So the one above is a deluxe edition, with leather instead of rope straps/handles.
Tents, camping...
Torrent downloads for a whole bunch of 40 manuals:
Toyota Handbooks - Page: 1
Toyota Workshop & Repair Manuals - Page: 3
To download torrents you'll need a free bittorrent client such as utorrent - µTorrent - a (very) tiny BitTorrent client
Those markers are called tailor's chalk. Rubs right off. Don't know about in the US but you can get them here anywhere they sell sewing supplies dirt cheap.
Great idea on the clear vinyl pattern material Ant. I used that one myself.
Do you have any problems with the glue gumming up the...
Looking great Ant!
I was going to go down this road myself a couple of years back but found a restorable factory top cheap. I did make my own bows, which two years later are still serviceable and cosmetically/functionally no different to the originals from the factory :)
I was making my...
Yes, It's Christmas (Happy Christmas MUD! :) ), but it's also the time my clutch slave cylinder crapped out on me.
I've never swapped out a master and slave before, and looking around on the intarwebz from google search to youtube, I can't find a tutorial specific to a 79 BJ40.
Any words...
Bigger version of my avatar
Front bar, bezel, spotties, rims, roll bar, jerrycan carrier (not shown) rattlecan primed and done in rattlecan flat black. Paint on everything but the roll bar has held up well
A wise purchase mate!
That one is awesome material to start a resto on. You'll have her on the trails in no time.
But... as always, we need MOAR PICS!
And welcome to Mud. :)
lol, they've been buried in a bunch of other threads.
Here's as good a place as any I guess:
1979 BJ40
As purchased
Under the bonnet - Toyota 13B (no "T") donk
Its first trip out in the boonies
A bit of paint here and there plus some bolted on mods
Home made bikini...
And here's my trailer, which I guess could be called a military-style trailer.
I bought it off a neighbour for $500. It had sat in his front yard for about 5 years. Now it's been sitting in mine for about two :D. I've done some rust repair and have PLANNED a bunch of mods, but haven't...
Australian Military HJ47 Norforce Troopie trailer - made by Toyota
Not mine so I haven't measured it, let alone researched it. Sorry.
I'll see if I can get some better pics of the data plates which should have a lot of the relevant info.