Cam's FJ60 Gets a Heart Transplant

[cruiser enthuiser]

Looks like maybe $100-ish shipped. Just looking at them, it would cost me way more than that in the time and energy, not counting the materials.

The GM mounts are the expensive part.

Oh yeah, that's cheap. I'll be calling.

I wisely saved the GM mounts from my junk.

 

[gwalt584]

Cam, Your FJ60 had the correct mounts for that cross member.
11/84 to 87 FJ60 tranny mount.
Gary

 

[gwalt584]

See me scratching my head!

 

[FJ60Cam]

See me scratching my head!

View attachment 1255766

Hmm... what year is your truck? My crossmember frame mounts don't look like that.

 

[Cruiserdrew]

That's the early style 84 and down.

 

[gwalt584]

84

 

[FJ60Cam]

That's the early style 84 and down.

Ahhh. Looks like you'll have to fab the frame brackets. Maybe the stock ones can be trimmed and used for one side of the frame (the later mounts have brackets on both sides of the frame).

The crossmember looks sweet.

 

[gwalt584]

Oh well. The motor mounts may work.

 

[richxd87]

@gwalt584 It looks like the crossmember is made to mount to the 62 stock location, further back on the frame, maybe?

 

[FJ60Cam]

@gwalt584 It looks like the crossmember is made to mount to the 62 stock location, further back on the frame, maybe?

Yes, mine mounted about 5" further back from the stock location, and the later 60's had the extra spacer in the transmission.

So for the '84, it will need to move back a good bit. About where those plates are centered under the frame.

 

[gwalt584]

Do you have a picture of the later 60 or 62?
Gary

 

[gwalt584]

This is about where it should be. What is puzzling is why the plate protrudes outside the frame rails on both sides.

 

[Cruiserdrew]

The mounts on the later trucks do the same thing.

 

[cruiser enthuiser]

View attachment 1255777 View attachment 1255778 View attachment 1255778 Oh well. The motor mounts may work.

Thanks for posting pics of those mounts attached. I like. Wonder how hard it would be to cut out my AA's and slip those babies in...

 

[FJ60Cam]

View attachment 1255826 View attachment 1255828 This is about where it should be. What is puzzling is why the plate protrudes outside the frame rails on both sides.

They have brackets on both sides of each frame rail.

 

[FJ60Cam]

Thanks for posting pics of those mounts attached. I like. Wonder how hard it would be to cut out my AA's and slip those babies in...

I was having the same thoughts. I'll bet if the manifolds were removed and exhaust pulled back, in could fit a cutoff wheel in there. And then the welder!

 

[gwalt584]

So are the 85 to 87 FJ60 cross member brackets welded to the inner and outer side of the frame?

If so it makes sense that the TLC cross member end plates protrude on each side of the rail.
Gary

 

[richxd87]

@gwalt584
The crossmember for the fj62 are further back due to the length of the automatic and they have ears on the inside and outside of the frame on both sides.

Here are some pics of the crossmember removed from a 62, lets see if the measurements compare with the tlc crossmember.

 

[gwalt584]

I will take some measurements tonight when I get home. my guess is that the TLC cross member will have the same measurements.
Gary

 

[gwalt584]

Here is the TLC measurement
Gary