Builds A simple Troopy build thread.... (1 Viewer)

[c2dfj45]

Needless to say this is being replaced.

 

[c2dfj45]

Lots of fesh-fesh in these.

 

[c2dfj45]

Polished the clock out....looks pretty good. Pretty sure it worked.

 

[Honger]

Lots of fesh-fesh in these.View attachment 2085556

Cleans right up though... it killed me to put my AC system back together knowing that half of my ducts still look like that. But I'm trying to keep mine drive-able for now. At some point the dash will come completely apart. I know the jute insulator behind the dash has got to be caked with fesh fesh...

 

[c2dfj45]

Cleans right up though... it killed me to put my AC system back together knowing that half of my ducts still look like that. But I'm trying to keep mine drive-able for now. At some point the dash will come completely apart. I know the jute insulator behind the dash has got to be caked with fesh fesh...

It's like a fesh-fesh trap back there. We'll remove ours. I think I'm going to do the usual rust treatment on the floors, sound deadener(s) and then maybe do a jute or mass loaded vinyl on the fire wall. The FZ motor is pretty quiet so not a huge amount of sound deadening needed. I think we'll do the roof too.....spray in sound deadener then the foil jute then maybe some kind of fabric headliner. No idea just yet.

Wonder if you could drag a rag thru the ducts? I think some were accessible as I recall.

 

[JuanJ]

I had not heard of the Hotsy. Recently bought a small and inexpensive 1700 psi pressure washer. And even that was incredible when cleaning out under the carpets of a model 100 as my son and I did a few months back.

One thing I was wondering about.... I'm driving my nearly identical Omani troopy around Dubai a bit now. The idle is set low and does not advance when I have the aircon on, so it tends to stall. Does any immediate fix come to mind? It's been a long time since I've had to fiddle with a motor without an ECU. (Apologies if this is outside the scope of your thread.)

Hello,

I would like a Hotsy as well.

Thread hijack.

Two things that may be related to your stall. One is the AC amplifier RPM setup. The amplifier is within the dash, above the glove box. You have to remove it to gain access. It has a knob for cutoff adjustment. With the engine at operating temperature, turn it until your AC makes the engine speed advance to 700 - 800 rpm. By the way, idle speed for the 1FZ-F/FE engine is (650 +/- 50) rpm. You may want to adjust idle speed first.

The other thing is the accelerator cable. It fatigues and deforms in old age, and cannot stay tight enough. Replacement may be necessary. Once you do it, take the chance to tune the engine. GCC Land Cruisers require an SST for carburetor tune up; this tool is discontinued but it is possible to improvise one.

Hope this helps.

Thread hijack is over.






Juan

 

[John Young]

Two things that may be related to your stall. One is the AC amplifier RPM setup. The amplifier is within the dash, above the glove box. You have to remove it to gain access. It has a knob for cutoff adjustment.

Thank you Juan! Now that you have said it, it makes sense that there would be an 'AC amplifier' but I certainly did not know it was there. I assumed that there was some form of vacuum advance to keep the RPM's up when idling with the aircon on. I certainly will unscrew the glove box and see what I see. The PO did a fair amount of work but left some things undone, so this could be interesting.

 

[Honger]

Hello,

I would like a Hotsy as well.

Thread hijack.

Two things that may be related to your stall. One is the AC amplifier RPM setup. The amplifier is within the dash, above the glove box. You have to remove it to gain access. It has a knob for cutoff adjustment. With the engine at operating temperature, turn it until your AC makes the engine speed advance to 700 - 800 rpm. By the way, idle speed for the 1FZ-F/FE engine is (650 +/- 50) rpm. You may want to adjust idle speed first.

The other thing is the accelerator cable. It fatigues and deforms in old age, and cannot stay tight enough. Replacement may be necessary. Once you do it, take the chance to tune the engine. GCC Land Cruisers require an SST for carburetor tune up; this tool is discontinued but it is possible to improvise one.

Hope this helps.

Thread hijack is over.






Juan

That's some good tech...

 

[JuanJ]

Thank you Juan! Now that you have said it, it makes sense that there would be an 'AC amplifier' but I certainly did not know it was there. I assumed that there was some form of vacuum advance to keep the RPM's up when idling with the aircon on. I certainly will unscrew the glove box and see what I see. The PO did a fair amount of work but left some things undone, so this could be interesting.

Hello,

This is what the AC amplifier looks like.

This is the control knob.

Juan

 

[JuanJ]

Hello,

Sorry for the hijack. Again.






Juan

 

[c2dfj45]

Good info for sure. We pulled our amplifier before we sprayed the interior out. I noticed the knob. And 100% on the cable...I've got a nice new one ready to go. I always try to install new cables on our builds. I've had an accelerator cable on a 40 fail and it sucks.

 

[c2dfj45]

And to close out this chapter, off the Troopy went to the dark reaches of the automotive black hole known as......the body shop.

 

[c2dfj45]

While I was playing in the TN woods with a bunch of cool people and other 70s......this stuff came back from powerdercoating. We use the color ANSI 49 for our grey.....solid industrial grey color. It's perfect for steel wheels. This was the original dash...

Hard to believe how good it turned out....like brand new.

 

[moto7man]

Nice!

 

[c2dfj45]

So this is where the thread will get boring.....crappy pics from the body shop. I hope the guy doing the paint work(I have not used him before), is better with the gun then he is with the camera. His pics suck. I try to stay away from the body shop while they are working...if I see the truck too much I start getting too anxious. Easier and better to let these guys do their thing....without me micromanaging. Which I'm good at.

The truck was rougher than expected. Body lines were all over the place, lots of filler. Lots of mysteries. And some seriously horrible prep work. They need some WAY better vocational training over there in the Middle East...

Supposedly the tape helps him keep his lines straight when he was sanding it down. He said the first step was to strip the truck down as far as he could to see what he was dealing with. He would be dealing with a lot....

 

[c2dfj45]

Not a whole lot of concerns on this side.....he said there was quite a bit of filler but it all came out. No dents though. Instead of working the metal to make is straight....they just filled it with filler. And then painted. Maybe no sanding. Ha.

The crazy part was, all the inner panels looked straight as an arrow. I still can't quite figure out why all the filler.

 

[c2dfj45]

Then we got to the disaster known as the rear doors. Yikes. Weeks on these. I should have bought new ones. There was so much filler in them....it took a ton of metal work to get them right.

Need to get to bare metal, work the metal then light coats of filler(he used some kind of different filler on these....not traditional filler).

 

[c2dfj45]

Not a lot of pics between the bare metal stage and the filler stages but this is the doors at some point. In person they are really nice and straight. Once they get some primer on, we'll see how it looks.

 

[Honger]

The truck was rougher than expected. Body lines were all over the place, lots of filler. Lots of mysteries. And some seriously horrible prep work. They need some WAY better vocational training over there in the Middle East...

I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!

 

[c2dfj45]

I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!

Am I right in sensing some sarcasm....or a LOT of sarcasm. Lol. I figured you'd get a kick out of these pics...