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I don't have a good before pic but the grill emblem was faded bad. I could have painted it I guess but new emblems are still available and not too expensive.
The mesh grill had overspray from trying to paint the emblem on the grill. So I took the grill off, scuffed it good, and painted it.
The bolts for the hinge to frame connection were about 1/4" from being tight so the bib would fold down as well as rotate. So I took the hinge off and painted it. I replaced the hardware on the hinge with SS.
I replaced 4 bib to fender bolts and I still have 4 bolts that need to drilled and tapped due to snapped bolts. I just ran out of time today.

You can see the oil leak from the front crank seal. This about a weeks worth.
As soon as Beno gets back in town I'm ordering the seals and gaskets. This repair will be first on the winter project list. I'm having too much fun driving it to take it off the road now.
 
My shop has a similar look since buffing out the 80, gives it that lived in look :)
 
Tool Bag

A couple of months ago I bought a sewing machine with the intention of making a tool bag or tool roll.
After some practice, trial and error, and sourcing materials I have a finished product. It's not perfect and a lot harder than I thought.

@FJinTegaCay was kind enough to let me borrow his tool bag for measurements and construction details.
As you can see his bag had a few issues. The zipper was missing teeth and the trim had dry rot. The rest of the bag is good because it is made of a vinyl coated fabric.
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David's bag 2.webp


I could not find a vinyl coated fabric that I liked enough to buy a minimum of 1SY without putting my hands on it first. I decided to go with oiled canvas in OD green because eventually I'll make a tool roll.
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After I finished my bag, full of confidence, I decided to repair David's bag.

Tool bags 2.webp


I replace the zipper and trim on David's bag. Neither one of these are perfect, but they are presentable and functional. It's a pain in the @$$ to sew those tight corners on the ends, while changing axis, on heavy fabric.
I think a tool roll would be much easier to make and I have plenty of material left over. I'll get on that after turning some wrenches. I feel like I need to renew my man card after all this sewing. :princess:
 
I could use some tool rolls if you're looking to make some $$ :D
 
Heather was thinking about the same thing, sewing up some spare tire trash bags, like the trasharoo. After time and material it was not a viable prospect. Cheaper to just buy one.
 
I prefer th tool rolls that have the individual pockets for each wrench ....makes it easier to see what is hiding in the mud
 
angerhater said:
I prefer th tool rolls that have the individual pockets for each wrench ....makes it easier to see what is hiding in the mud
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Agreed ... I have two in my trail bag - one for SAE and one for Toyota sizes ;)
 
And by "Toyota sizes" I assume you mean sensible, logical, base-ten type sizing.
 
That base ten stuff will never catch on..................
 
Clearly a fad
 
Abe Simpson.webp
 
An update to this thread is long overdue. Life threw me a curve ball last year and the 40 has been on the back burner for a few months now. I missed my winter wrenching window and started driving it again in the spring. It had several issues that needed to be fixed sooner rather than later.

Here is what I started with shortly after I bought it:
Engine bay.webp

Holley carb with no choke plate. Throttle cable hanging on by 4 strands of wire. The fuel line is rubber and crossing over the valve cover leading to a plastic fuel filter.

After:
Intake and carb.webp

I installed a trollhole carb with a factory fuel line. I replaced the plastic fuel filter with a factory unit and installed it on the frame rail. The air cleaner came from ontherxs and I believe he has an '86 FJ60. Roxx, who is a fine purveyor of vintage Land Cruiser parts, provided the intake horn, fuel line, gas pedal, and carb linkage.

While I had her down I decided to go a little further:
Front bib off.webp


I replaced the front crank seal, t-stat, coolant hoses and cleaned the radiator.

I needed the factory linkage to hook up the carb. Which meant I also needed the correct gas pedal. Now I have a functional choke.
Linkage and carb.webp

Correct gas pedal.webp


I took it for a 60 mile shakedown run and she runs great. The idle is a little high so I need to look into that. There is a huge difference over the Holley. In the Holley's defense it needs a complete rebuild.
My goal here was to make it more reliable using Toyota parts. I'm very pleased with the results.

No more projects for awhile, I'm just going to drive it.

 
Brad,

Did you hook up the idle control solenoid? It is the single electrical connection on the carb. The one pic above shows it unhooked. There should be some wiring with the other side of that connector in the engine bay somewhere. The Holley probably didn't use it. All of your idle fuel is supposed to be metered by this solenoid. If you are idling high and the truck smells gassy and if you don't have the ICS hooked up, look into that. When set up properly the truck should die when the ICS is unplugged. If it doesn't, you have your mixture set too high and the carb is bypassing the ICS and sucking from the jets at idle. Food for thought...

Truck looks great man!
 
That looks GREAT. Love that rig.

After looking into Dave's suggestion for the ICS a vacuum leak (if running rich enough) can cause a high idle.

In a nutshell ...
If the fuel/air stoichiometry is correct a vacuum leak will cause it to stumble and stall.
If the engine is running rich a vacuum leak will raise the idle.

Enjoy the driving!
 
Thanks for the kind words.

Dave, Yeah I hooked up the ICS. There are plenty of loose, switched 12V wires under the hood to make that happen with no drama. I'm guessing the idle was around 1000-1200 RPM. So after my shakedown run on Monday I came home and ordered a $15 hand held tach reader from my friends at Amazon. I don't have a tach in the cab. Of course I could not wait for it to be delivered so I dropped the idle by ear and reset the timing yesterday. I did not have time to test drive it though. My tach was delivered today and when I checked it, 675RPM. It is supposed to be 690. I was pleased with my tune by ear method, or maybe I got lucky. I took it for a test drive a few minutes ago and the idle is rock solid and runs great.

Rice, I still have your punch and think about you every time I use it. :) The offer still stands that I will ship it to you if you want to PM me your address.

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When I bought the 40 it came delivered with a ConFer bench seat. There were also some goodies thrown into the mix. These goodies included some factory jump seats. I have never been a big fan of the bench seat. It makes carrying anything way more difficult than it has to be and takes up a lot of room. Since I'm more apt to only have one passenger plus luggage, gear, or ??? I decided to remove the bench seat and install the jump seats. These seats are in great shape. I assume they have been recovered at some point but they look great and now I have all kinds of room in the rear for groceries.:)
The bench seat is up for sale if anyone wants it. I'll post it in the For Sale thread soon.

FJ40 rear jump seats.webp
 
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