Early FJ40 wiper motor restoration (2 Viewers)

[65swb45]

A few things. One, the screw that is missing on the sight glass retainer always concerns me. Sometimes it’s missing because the hole is stripped out. The counterweight over the secondary butterfly is raised; its natural position is down. It could be frozen. Would make me concerned to check the main throttle plates as well.

The insulator could be bonded to the carb, making removal problematic. The gasket is bonded to the insulator, and if it tears during removal, it’s a lot of work to get the remaining gasket material off the insulator to make it perfectly flat and reusable. I have a couple of tricks that I’ve developed over the years that I use here. No guarantee, but they do increase the odds.

The carb has a lot of oxidation. The oxidation will not come off in the dip tank. We spoke about “hand work” yesterday, so you know what I mean. I see about two hours of extra work from the photographs.

 

[thundermcawesum]

A few things. One, the screw that is missing on the sight glass retainer always concerns me. Sometimes it’s missing because the hole is stripped out. The counterweight over the secondary butterfly is raised; its natural position is down. It could be frozen. Would make me concerned to check the main throttle plates as well.

The insulator could be bonded to the carb, making removal problematic. The gasket is bonded to the insulator, and if it tears during removal, it’s a lot of work to get the remaining gasket material off the insulator to make it perfectly flat and reusable. I have a couple of tricks that I’ve developed over the years that I use here. No guarantee, but they do increase the odds.

The carb has a lot of oxidation. The oxidation will not come off in the dip tank. We spoke about “hand work” yesterday, so you know what I mean. I see about two hours of extra work from the photographs.

Thanks for the expert analysis Mark! A few things:
1. All of the linkages move freely as far as I can tell. See here:

2. The black residue on the outside carb body looks more like black paint to me up close.
3. I am more than happy to do as much scut work as I can before I send it off. Wire wheel, ultrasonic bath and degreaser, etc. I assume I want to stay far away from a media blaster, and of course I would not dip any rubber parts that are unobtainable.
4. The viewport hole does appear to have threads, but I would need to thoroughly clean it before I could say for sure.

 

[65swb45]

Thanks for the expert analysis Mark! A few things:
1. All of the linkages move freely as far as I can tell. See here:

2. The black residue on the outside carb body looks more like black paint to me up close.
3. I am more than happy to do as much scut work as I can before I send it off. Wire wheel, ultrasonic bath and degreaser, etc. I assume I want to stay far away from a media blaster, and of course I would not dip any rubber parts that are unobtainable.
4. The viewport hole does appear to have threads, but I would need to thoroughly clean it before I could say for sure.

We will talk.

 

[thundermcawesum]

We will talk.

Received your wiper unit today. It is damn near mint on the outside. Going to open her up tomorrow. I assumed you would be sending two units, so this won’t cost as much as I quoted you.