FJ40 vehicle weight

[venpick]

i see that you allready ditched the underpowered original motor for a 200 lb lighter v8 so thats good. The only only thing left is to drive really fast untill it feels like your floating. that or get out the 1/2" drill bit and bore out all non essential parts untill its one big wiffle ball

 

[Tankota]

Aluminum wheels help too!

If you can, a lexan windshield would help as well (only if its a trailer queen though)

ps That 2nd pic is almost a dead ringer for my cruiser 10 yrs ago! Looks like evans.

pss I hit the scales in buckely/bonney lake on 410 right when I still had 35s. It was 4500. I now have 38.5x14.5s (five of them!) but they are on aluminum rims not steel like the 35s. I added a back seat but went with a smaller box. Its a tuffy tj box instead of my massive carry everything homemade one I had before. To sum it up...not sure exactly what it weighs now but probably around 4600.

 

[Mace]

40" Iroks on hummer rims, Straight six, sm420, dual mini truck tcases, full cage (and I mean full) FW60/14bolt and one tank of pane.


4260 lbs..

 

[Tankota]

Nice rig and lighter than I expected. How much do the pane tanks weigh full? and how many gallon tank is it?

I think gasoline is around 8lbs per gallon.

 

[4alarm]

4000 lbs exactly. No spare mounted yet. My plan is to keep the mounting points for the carrier as low as possible. Weight up high=bad, weight down low=not so bad.

 

[awp_cruiser]

"ps That 2nd pic is almost a dead ringer for my cruiser 10 yrs ago! Looks like evans."

Yup, that was at Evans. 311a or whatever the trail to the right is out of the parking lot.

Mace - any plans to carry a spare on the rig?

4alarm - How do you get by without a front bumper on the street?

Thanks for the posts,

awp

 

[4alarm]

I'm not sure if my county requires bumpers. My neighbor across the street from me is a DPS officer and hasn't said anything to me about it. I will make a front one soon, just another thing on the to-do list.

 

[Mace]

No plans to carry a spare. I have one on the trailer but have yet to use it.

pane tanks are about 50 or so lbs.. 8 galls of fuel (ish)

 

[Francesco_from_Italy]

My FJ was 4012 lbs (1820 kg).
Consider that the stock car is supposed to be around 3900 lbs; mine was modified with 80 axles, rollbar, a couple of winches and some other stuff that didn't influenced the weight; adding to that, when I weighted her the car was without hard top and doors (add more or less 300 lbs for them).

Now I made some other works, the main is front 3 link and rear 4 link with air shocks; I still have to weight the car again but I would be happy if it was still around 4000 lbs.

Francesco

 

[Eskimo]

Mine was 3838 when I tubed it, with Toyota axles..

Now it's 4620 with the Rocks.