I hope this is not too elementary of a question, I did search but did not find one solid answer or illustration.
Here goes…We took delivery of a project rig last night. I was told it was a '78 40. so I assumed that it had the 2 F motor in it.
When we looked at the door plate, the tub said it was built in '73 and I thought I remembered reading here, that the 2F was not put into the 40's until '74. There is also evidence that some other parts have been swapped out in the past so I can't tell what is original and what is not.
so with the door plate saying '73 but being told by the P.O that it was a 78, I am not sure what motor is actually in the FJ.
If I was just going to put this on the trail. I would insert a V8 of some kind into it and be done. But we are going to do a resto/mod on it for my daughter so I would like to get the original motor running. But I do not want to even buy one spark plug without knowing for sure what motor is under the hood (I made that mistake once before with an old Ford I bought…rebuilt the entire motor thinking it was one thing and it turned out to be a little brother of what I thought=bent crank)
So how can I tell the difference between the two motors? is there any illustrations/photos comparing the two? any little gimicks to look out for such as oil filter placement or freeze plug amount?
Oh
! here is a photo of our motor, maybe someone can tell me what we got? but I would still like to know how to tell the difference
thanks in advance!
Here goes…We took delivery of a project rig last night. I was told it was a '78 40. so I assumed that it had the 2 F motor in it.
When we looked at the door plate, the tub said it was built in '73 and I thought I remembered reading here, that the 2F was not put into the 40's until '74. There is also evidence that some other parts have been swapped out in the past so I can't tell what is original and what is not.
so with the door plate saying '73 but being told by the P.O that it was a 78, I am not sure what motor is actually in the FJ.
If I was just going to put this on the trail. I would insert a V8 of some kind into it and be done. But we are going to do a resto/mod on it for my daughter so I would like to get the original motor running. But I do not want to even buy one spark plug without knowing for sure what motor is under the hood (I made that mistake once before with an old Ford I bought…rebuilt the entire motor thinking it was one thing and it turned out to be a little brother of what I thought=bent crank)
So how can I tell the difference between the two motors? is there any illustrations/photos comparing the two? any little gimicks to look out for such as oil filter placement or freeze plug amount?
Oh
! here is a photo of our motor, maybe someone can tell me what we got? but I would still like to know how to tell the difference
thanks in advance!
