First year, 1961 fj40

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Been chasing a vacuum leak....had all of 9inches of vacuum....needless to say it ran like crap, but enough to drive.
Looking, snugging, spraying starter fluid, adjusting....nothing did anything. Was about to pull the manifolds again and do i don't know what.
But, this evening I decided to check vacuum once again, but instead of going to the back vac fitting for the transfer case, I pulled the hose off the pcv.....18inches, smooth running, easy reving....the clouds parted, trumpets sounded and angels sung.
I jumped in it and tore off around the neighborhood.
Test and tune season is over!! Now we're waiting for paperwork to make it actually legal for street use.

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So the pcv was the vacuum leak source?
 
middlecalf said:
So the pcv was the vacuum leak source?
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Yeap gunked up stuck mostly open apparently.
I thought i had checked it at some point but maybe not....removing it from the equation solved everything.
 
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Spent the afternoon putting miles on it.
I've always liked the 3spds, but loving the column shift.
The 12 year old, who has grown up in the jump seat in the back of the 75, albeit under a hardtop, is still getting used to the no top, no doors thing.

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Living the good life these days.
Have a few things to sort out, but good enough to putt around in.

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Anybody put seat belts in a 40 that didn't originally have seat belts? What did you go with?
While I'm prepared to die like a gentleman, pressure is growing from the other 2/3rds of the passengers to " not die in this death trap"...my response of it not being a trap, if ya ain't strapped in it, has not gathered any favorable responses yet.
 
brian said:
Anybody put seat belts in a 40 that didn't originally have seat belts? What did you go with?
While I'm prepared to die like a gentleman, pressure is growing from the other 2/3rds of the passengers to " not die in this death trap"...my response of it not being a trap, if ya ain't strapped in it, has not gathered any favorable responses yet.
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I bought some from seatbelts.com. Buy the 60” for the DS and 72” for the PS, if you have the front bench seats.
 
Ordered some red ones with chrome lift buckle.
 
Thought i had shenanigans in the parking brake drum....slow speed rotational noises....turns out it was just a lug nut rolling around in the ps front hub cap....but anyways while I was in the parking brake figured I would try to get that working properly or at least better than it was....which wasnt.
As it were...the early parking brake shoes and top pivot point are slightly different than the slightly later stuff. I had initially tried trimming later shoes to fit, but that entirely didn't work. So this afternoon I swapped pivot points and installed unmodified shoes, and voila, parking brake works.
Early pivot on the left, later on the right, completely swapable.

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Welp I guess these front drums are toasted.
Part of me was hoping they would come around as they are teq marked....I might see if there's enough to turn them, but the picture doesn't do this the justice it deserves. 50 years of sitting, with the pads frozen to the drums for how many untold years will do a number.
Luckily for some reasons unknown, the rears escaped this same fate.
A good used pair from the rear of the 75 has braking much improved....and no more square drums.

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Fuji carb has been giving me fits.
Roughish almost struggling to idle, and a bog on acceleration right off idle, and a noticeable struggle to accelerate. Several redneck rebuilds improved the situation but didn't completely resolve it....this evening on a trip to the dealership, it quit idling. Once home, and another round of rebuilds, it now idles silky smooth. Replaced the unmarked primary jet with a 150, now smooth powerful pull.
Seems like my carb woes are behind me...for now.
 
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