Builds Bonnie

[scrapdaddy]

Man, I look away from the computer for a couple days and get smoked. My dad always told me " free and cold " were the top two requirements in beer.



By the way, J Mack's tire was dirty, just try'n to help.

 

[knuckle47]

Wow! That is a beautiful FJ55. Gorgeous!

When I was a lot younger with my brand new 40, there was1 other Toyota in the county..an FJ55 and at the time I never really cared for it. Much luck and congratulations to you with it..

Great story on your travels. I wish I had an opportunity to ride out west. All I know about Gunnison, Co is that it was frequently the coldest spot in the nation divided with International Falls, MN. January 1975 it was Fletcher, VT at -54*F…..That’s my FJ40 on the left

Once again BEST OF LUCK …I love it!!

 

[bobm]

Man, I look away from the computer for a couple days and get smoked. My dad always told me " free and cold " were the top two requirements in beer.



By the way, J Mack's tire was dirty, just try'n to help.

@scrapdaddy tire shine it's Shinyer than Armor all

 

[scrapdaddy]

Cheaper, too!

 

[riderjgs]

Renewable resource!

 

[scrapdaddy]

More Bud, more tire shine!

 

[riderjgs]

More Bud, more tire shine!

Also a perfect use for Coors Light! And Budweiser.

 

[scrapdaddy]

Coors would rot out a tire.

 

[greenbeast]

Coors would rot out a tire.

This explains a lot. I enjoy a yellow belly and drink them in memorialize a dad of a friend I grew up with that was functional alcoholic. However “uncle Ronnie” was a good guy.

Bad news bears stuff, had to get yellow belly out of cooler in backseat for him when he was driving me home from 6th grade baseball. Same at practice, some teams have ball boy, we had beer boy!

 

[greenbeast]

Bonnie home, guy put higher flow fuel pump on then is indicated but says it has return line. So I’m thinking it uses what it needs and returns the rest. Gonna track down in my parts from Jim appropriate part number and go buy a couple fuel pumps tomorrow.

I’m still bothered that it’s not to spec, but she ran like a bat out of hell coming home. Nice sunset in rear view mirror

 

[PabloCruise]

Small hiccup yesterday. Kim and I drove her to Stillwater for the OSU Arkansas football game. 4-5 miles away on highway she started missing some. I immediately went to Napa and she died pulling in.

I swapped fuel filter in parking lot hoping that would cure our issues. Got to game fine (only 15 away since we were early).

2 OT game and I couldn’t leave early, or I wasn’t going to. Leave and she started missing again so back to NAPA thinking it was fuel pump. No fuel pump with high enough psi in stock. Earlier they had given name of local guy to Arkansas fan whose Mercedes sprinter van broke its belt which really sucked for him and 8 guys he brought.

I didn’t know that was who was chatting with me as I was under the pig but after we chatted some and he gave me his number.

She wouldn’t restart and some friends picked us up to take us home. NAPA folks were awesome told me leave her in front where they had camera and light would be right on her.

Called fella who said he would take a look at her as soon as he got back from Tulsa. Dropped keys at his construction shop south of town. He called me later and said he drove it to shop, identified pump was fine and figured out it was ground for fuel pump which he is going to fix. He gave it good look over and said he was very impressed with the build (testament to Jim and Bonnie doing it right). Fuel flow with TBI was as it should be and he didn’t note any other issues or faults at all.

Love how it brought out the good in folks. This nice guy does mechanic stuff on weekends but apparently is super talented. He recently rebuilt some 1990 Land Rover with rare diesel engine and although I’m not a LR fan it did look pretty cool.

He is going to hold onto her until next weekend when I’ll go back up and pick her up.

I think best thing is I learned some likely valuable info on this one for if and when it happens again.

Man, it always pays to check the ground…

 

[PabloCruise]

And a Picture of him peeing on @J Mack

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There’s a few different things going on in that picture…

 

[greenbeast]

Man, it always pays to check the ground…

Ground has apparently repaired in past and was spliced together. Fella said he tapped the splice and drove it to shop after we left.

 

[PabloCruise]

We took a perfectly sincere thread and then made it even more awesome!

It didn’t take long…

 

[riderjgs]

Bonnie home, guy put higher flow fuel pump on then is indicated but says it has return line. So I’m thinking it uses what it needs and returns the rest. Gonna track down in my parts from Jim appropriate part number and go buy a couple fuel pumps tomorrow.

I’m still bothered that it’s not to spec, but she ran like a bat out of hell coming home. Nice sunset in rear view mirror

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Driving with the knees. Not sayin’ I ever did that.

 

[greenbeast]

Driving with the knees. Not sayin’ I ever did that.

The beauty of it Jim, unlike any of my other cars it’s doable. Not safe at all but when the need to snap a pic pops up I can cautiously do it.

 

[RUSH55]

Driving with the knees. Not sayin’ I never did that.

FIFY

 

[riderjgs]

So one good thing about the Pig’s departure was that the other old vehicle around here got some attention. 300+ mile round trip in the 54-year-old Porsche to Crested Butte today to deal with fencing issues on the family property. Probably more miles in one day than it accumulated over the past two or three years. Nothing quite like the howl of a couple of triple throat Webers atop a flat six located just inches behind your ears. Didn’t realize how much I missed that.

 

[bobm]

it. Black 1 drove by the other day.

 

[greenbeast]

Leaves are looking nice, I did drool some over that beauty!