i changed the oil, bought a battery, and had to unfreeze the primary butterfly. made sure it had spark and then did a gravity fed line to carb. (gotta replace some fuel line first,, when did autozone start charging 10$ a foot for 5/16 fuel line, wtf!??) quite pleased. now i gotta get a few more parts, polish her up, and go for a spin.
77 fj40 started right up after like 10-15 years of sitting.
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You should post a pic of your rig in the pinstripe thread.
Always a good plan to pull the plugs, squirt in a little Marvel's Mystery oil in each cylinder. Leave the plugs out and crank the engine over until it builds oil pressure. I put them to bed the same way.
If the oil is "clean" I would start it up and run it for a while, like a 50 mile road trip at all rpm's and loads; then change the oil and filter. Most engine wear occurs at start up - so let it polish everything with the old oil.
If I ever get a new engine I'm going to build a pre-oiler for it and install my toilet paper filter unit in line with the regular one.
Cheapest thing you can do is keep clean/good oil in an engine.
If I ever get a new engine I'm going to build a pre-oiler for it and install my toilet paper filter unit in line with the regular one.
Cheapest thing you can do is keep clean/good oil in an engine.
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i should have done this,,, i remember telling myself to do this and i forgot in the heat of the moment.
Classic 
…Looks like something I would have done.
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that is a Spectre product, I think it was around $2500.
I would bleed the system getting rid of all that old fluid.
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yes, that was my plan, my clutch cylinder showed up today, still looking for a reasonably priced master cylinder. can't believe some places want 400$.
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