You can't compare the two vehicles. The superficial resemblance (if you are legally blind or squinting and from 500 feet away) is the only thing similar.
One is a truck, the other sorta looks like a truck. The Jeep has a purpose, and can be quite satisfactory for many people and their needs...
I'm in the same boat. My adjuster has not inspected mine yet though, and I wish my truck looked like yours. That's totally salvageable.
Sorry you had to deal with this hassle, but it sounds like you made out OK...
So radically different than the 60 and 62 here. Both the console and the pedal bucket...
So odd...
OK, I see from the other thread that those are for an 80, to convert to manual. :whoops:
I know that there are (or have been) thousands of 2H motors with various aftermarket turbo set-ups. I just wonder, truthfully, how many of them died prematurely because of it...
Seems like every third or fourth HJ60 in Australia or New Zealand is turboed.
Having been in Panama for a summer...
THANKS! The motor mounts should be indentical to the 62. Speedo is the same, at least on an FJ80, not sure about the FZJ80.
Mods necessary (other than what I just mentioned):
Driveshafts. OK...
Fuel tank? Doubt it, I don't see an issue putting diesel (or biodiesel) into a gasoline tank...
MAN do I have some seriously conflicting information...
According to several sources, the curb weight of an FJ62 is 4,480 lbs., whereas an FJ80 (not an FZJ80), is 4,595 lbs. Just 115 pounds heavier. One small woman in the vehicle makes the difference. Is this correct?
According to one very...
Mods, can you delete this thread please, I am going to just follow up in the thread linked above instead of creating another, redundant thread, now that I know that one exists...
I am studying this thread. I think an entire 2H + H55F powertrain will be an easier swap than this one was. I am curious about the shifter position, and if the 5-speed + 60-series transfercase shifter (not the 62's, but the fully manual one from a 60), will end up in a better, more aft...
Jut found this: https://forum.ih8mud.com/80-series-tech/375292-h42-four-speed-manual-transmission-into-1992-fj80.html, so Q1 has been answered in the affirmative.
If I go with a 3FE 80 (1991-1992, I suppose, possibly early 93? as well), to swap over my 2H/H55F, I am going to need some bits...
This is a big if, and some of these questions (and more) will need to be answered before I decide.
Assuming I go the 80 route...
1) In the States in an 80 with...
All 100 series seem quite Lexus-like to me; they might all be LX470s as far as I am concerned. The LX450 still seems like a Cruiser to me, burled wood dash and all.
A year or so? C'mon. I agree, rust is cancer and who knowingly pays for cancer? But, seriously, that's not so bad. You 80 guys are spoiled. 75% of the 60s I see look like that underneath.