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My back is loving this part.
97 40th ~ Paul
What man can teach another to understand this truth? What angel can teach it to an angel? What angel can teach it to a man? We must ask it of you, seek it in you; we must knock at your door. Only then shall we receive what we ask and find what we seek; only then will the door be opened to us.
Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
Last piston done. Was surprised the amount of elbow grease this takes to get them all to this point below. Pistons all look to be in decent shape.
97 40th ~ Paul
What man can teach another to understand this truth? What angel can teach it to an angel? What angel can teach it to a man? We must ask it of you, seek it in you; we must knock at your door. Only then shall we receive what we ask and find what we seek; only then will the door be opened to us.
Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
97 40th ~ Paul
What man can teach another to understand this truth? What angel can teach it to an angel? What angel can teach it to a man? We must ask it of you, seek it in you; we must knock at your door. Only then shall we receive what we ask and find what we seek; only then will the door be opened to us.
Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
Time for some other cleaning.
97 40th ~ Paul
What man can teach another to understand this truth? What angel can teach it to an angel? What angel can teach it to a man? We must ask it of you, seek it in you; we must knock at your door. Only then shall we receive what we ask and find what we seek; only then will the door be opened to us.
Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
My back is loving this part.
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I fractured a rib trying to muscle in the exhaust manifold on my FJ55. I can hardly imagine.
Has everyone been banned yet?1971 CT90 ; 1974 Schwinn Collegiate: commuter rig; 1977 FJ55 old school expedition rig
What did you use to clean? Looks fantastic!
1994 FZJ80, 3x, Emerald Green, TLCA #27610
1994 FZJ-80 Let the Adventure Ensue
1997 FZJ80, 3x, 2AB, Stock
1997 FZJ80, 40th Anniversary, stock and in need of love
1993 FZJ80, 3x locked, relatively stock
What did you use to clean? Looks fantastic!
Thank you.
~Forney brass hand brush, small and large
~PJ1 Super Cleaner
~Shop Vac
~Razor blade scraper for gasket on block
~Hours and hours of patiently scrubbing and a few cuss words
I will clean again when tape comes off and scrub the block Iron to a final state. I had a handful of extremely dense carbon spots that I took a VERY dull flat blade screwdriver to. I would gently apply pressure to fracture those areas, then follow up with the vacuum, brush and cleaner again. There was no way they would have come off, had I not done so.
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97 40th ~ Paul
What man can teach another to understand this truth? What angel can teach it to an angel? What angel can teach it to a man? We must ask it of you, seek it in you; we must knock at your door. Only then shall we receive what we ask and find what we seek; only then will the door be opened to us.
Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
God I love CA cars. Some brushing with degreaser and the frame still looks like it rolled out the factory.
97 40th ~ Paul
What man can teach another to understand this truth? What angel can teach it to an angel? What angel can teach it to a man? We must ask it of you, seek it in you; we must knock at your door. Only then shall we receive what we ask and find what we seek; only then will the door be opened to us.
Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
Damn dude, that looks great...I hope mine shines up as well as yours!
1994 FZJ80, 3x, Emerald Green, TLCA #27610
1994 FZJ-80 Let the Adventure Ensue
1997 FZJ80, 3x, 2AB, Stock
1997 FZJ80, 40th Anniversary, stock and in need of love
1993 FZJ80, 3x locked, relatively stock
More tooth brush work. Lower manifold, steering box and cooling side:
97 40th ~ Paul
What man can teach another to understand this truth? What angel can teach it to an angel? What angel can teach it to a man? We must ask it of you, seek it in you; we must knock at your door. Only then shall we receive what we ask and find what we seek; only then will the door be opened to us.
Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
Wire harness looks good to go.
97 40th ~ Paul
What man can teach another to understand this truth? What angel can teach it to an angel? What angel can teach it to a man? We must ask it of you, seek it in you; we must knock at your door. Only then shall we receive what we ask and find what we seek; only then will the door be opened to us.
Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
Valve cover and upper intake will take a bath when the head goes out.
97 40th ~ Paul
What man can teach another to understand this truth? What angel can teach it to an angel? What angel can teach it to a man? We must ask it of you, seek it in you; we must knock at your door. Only then shall we receive what we ask and find what we seek; only then will the door be opened to us.
Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
New blue fan clutch with 30k fluid. Take off had 20k and worked great. It will go in the spare parts bag.
97 40th ~ Paul
What man can teach another to understand this truth? What angel can teach it to an angel? What angel can teach it to a man? We must ask it of you, seek it in you; we must knock at your door. Only then shall we receive what we ask and find what we seek; only then will the door be opened to us.
Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
I am having 80 withdrawals. Some pics from this year and last.
97 40th ~ Paul
What man can teach another to understand this truth? What angel can teach it to an angel? What angel can teach it to a man? We must ask it of you, seek it in you; we must knock at your door. Only then shall we receive what we ask and find what we seek; only then will the door be opened to us.
Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
I have been pondering this. The list of projects keeps growing while I am in here lol. Never thought I would be replacing all the steering hoses, but when you are cleaning and see how empty the bay is, it just makes sense.
Do the High PS hose. I replaced mine with Gates. I heard Rein is good to. Otherwise OEM if you loaded $$$. I'm all for OEM everything 99% of the time. But I opted for cheaper and its been working good so far with my hydro assist setup.
Do all PS hoses while its easy now! See my Crawler80 build thread for my PS cooler set up with the derale and PSC resv. I wish I did that for my Turbo80. Thats the only thing I neglected to do on my Turbo80. High pressure and Derale and PSC resv. I will one day.
Otherwise def do the engine isolator. It's much easier right now with no head in the way.
Battle Ground, WA
GOLD Star
Looks like you were up to signal peak. How are you liking those tires so far. On my Dodge they grip in the rain up here in PNW. So far they are wearing slower than the Duratrac’s I ran before.
1996 FZJ80- Awaiting transformation
You'll have to let me know when you wanna do another trail run!
Great build thread.
Do the High PS hose. I replaced mine with Gates. I heard Rein is good to. Otherwise OEM if you loaded $$$. I'm all for OEM everything 99% of the time. But I opted for cheaper and its been working good so far with my hydro assist setup.
Yup! Already have low and high hoses in the parts pile and a Derale cooler. Mounts already ordered also.....
97 40th ~ Paul
What man can teach another to understand this truth? What angel can teach it to an angel? What angel can teach it to a man? We must ask it of you, seek it in you; we must knock at your door. Only then shall we receive what we ask and find what we seek; only then will the door be opened to us.
Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
Looks like you were up to signal peak. How are you liking those tires so far. On my Dodge they grip in the rain up here in PNW. So far they are wearing slower than the Duratrac’s I ran before.
Yes, twice last year. Once solo and once with all the kids. The tires were great in what rain we did have and better on the ice and snow compared to the M/T's. I would get squirrelly with those.
97 40th ~ Paul
What man can teach another to understand this truth? What angel can teach it to an angel? What angel can teach it to a man? We must ask it of you, seek it in you; we must knock at your door. Only then shall we receive what we ask and find what we seek; only then will the door be opened to us.
Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
