Media FJ40 Pics from "Back in the day" (70's, 80's) (6 Viewers)
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Dusy/ Ershim Trail, 1986, sporting my 31”, $35 Desert Dog retread tires. Living the dream.
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To keep a little tech in this thread (and keep it from being moved to chat) it was on this trip that we discovered that the diaphragm in my vacuum operated front wheel drive wasn’t working, but with a screwdriver we could remove the access cover, move the shift rod forward, and then put a small enough stone inside the chamber to keep it engaged AND get the access cover back on.
Since this was a year before the El Camino incident in the East Mojave, I guess this was the actual birth of the Markguyver legend.
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Since this was a year before the El Camino incident in the East Mojave, I guess this was the actual birth of the Markguyver legend.
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Sometimes I think that we barley scratched the surface of Markguyver. And since Hollywood doesn't have any new ideas we pitch a return of the show. Instead of life and death situations where the protagonist has to get out of, he is an avid offroader named Mark ( purely coincidental ) has to get vehicle off of the trails and back home. And we just use all of your trail repair stories to make each episode.To keep a little tech in this thread (and keep it from being moved to chat) it was on this trip that we discovered that the diaphragm in my vacuum operated front wheel drive wasn’t working, but with a screwdriver we could remove the access cover, move the shift rod forward, and then put a small enough stone inside the chamber to keep it engaged AND get the access cover back on.
Since this was a year before the El Camino incident in the East Mojave, I guess this was the actual birth of the Markguyver legend.
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You could watch we are outa gas Matt's OffRoad Recovery, tho they seem to be getting better with fuel management.
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My favorite ‘out of gas’ story would be Pismo Beach, 1987. Jeff and Dave Ames were with us (sons of Robert Ames, founder of Four Wheeler magazine). Robert had about two dozen jeeps in his backyard at home, and his sons would take turns taking his rigs out.
On this trip they had chosen an old flatfender with a V8 conversion that had never been regeared from 4:88, so our top speed on the 180 mile drive from LA was between 45-50.
Saturday after dinner they went off on a ‘quick’ run into the dunes that turned into a version of the Gilligan’s Island ‘three hour tour’! When they finally returned, we could hear them, but we couldn’t see them until they were about 100’ away.
The alternator had died. With what little juice they’d had left, they carefully calculated their best odds for making it back. Headlights were out of the question. Unfortunately, so was the electric fuel pump. All remaining power had to go to the dizzy.
So they finished the bottle of champagne they’d brought along, siphoned gas from the tank into the bottle, strapped the bottle to the rollcage to gravity feed the carburetor and drove back, each holding a flashlight out the sides of the Jeep! I don’t remember how many times they said they had to stop and refill the bottle, but they made it back!
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Dude thinks he's a chick magnet in that 60.
1995? South hills outside of Missoula. No idea where we were going, just poking around in the woods. Bone stock with likely mix matched tires. Fortunately, my ex was good at labeling pics, cause I would never have remembered where that was taken.
This has to be late 1984 or early 85 because I had finished painting the white one in June. It had been the colors in my avatar. The one with the hardtop was wrecked in April 1985.
I’m not sure what year this ad is from. The FJ40 has no louvers on the driver’s side. 1970 maybe?
Magritte lives!
I was doing about 65 on the Gulf freeway one morning and my engine shut off. I had to be towed home. Cylinder #1 had a hole in it from one of the valves. I don't remember how i got a single piston and valve to replace it but I did a quick repair and got it running. A few weeks later it did it again. My BIL found a non running 40 down in Palacios, so we bought that one and salvaged parts from it. This was in the summer of 1986.
bezel disorientation, and dragging-under-the-skid-plate-exhaust...
