FJ40 with Air Bag Suspension (GSMTR 1999) (1 Viewer)

[Drake2]

Found these old pics from the Great Smokey Mountain Trail Ride back in 1999. The guy could raise and lower each corner independently with a handheld remote. Never saw anything like this since then. No idea where it is today.........

 

[White Stripe]

Their used to be so many built 40s. Not anymore. When people see my 40 offroad these days they freak as if they just saw a dodo bird or something. Or they say nice Jeep.

 

[Downey]

Evidently it depends upon how you want to use your FJ40. Some air bags were tried on off road racing vehicles, they could not handle rapid cycles (compression and extension), as in faster bumpy road/off road race course terrain.

 

[Rock40]

The upper link geometry, unless I'm missing something is completely terrible. A single poly mount to do all the work of laterally controlling the rear axle, that's nuts.

 

[cruisermatt]

@Sputnik40 is ancient enough to have been there

 

[Drake2]

I am feeling a bit like an artifact for having been there . I trailered my 40 there with my 427 tall deck powered GMC K20 riding on 35's. 5MPG all the way to Tenn and back . It was worth it 100%

 

[matzell]

I was there and remember the 40. Do not remember who's it was. Only saw it there the one time. BTW that is Rainy Kirk in the the background @Rainman here on mud. He may know who had it.

 

[Drake2]

I was there and remember the 40. Do not remember who's it was. Only saw it there the one time. BTW that is Rainy Kirk in the the background @Rainman here on mud. He may know who had it.

LOL, more of us old folks on here...........nice Maybe you and I even talked, I was wandering around the camping area looking for someone with a portable welder to try and fix a blown out automatic tranny pan. Figured I asked just about everyone. My brother blew a tranny on the way down, no, not that kind of tranny

 

[matzell]

I was wheeling my black 85 4runner at the time. I did have a premier power welder on it!

 

[White Stripe]

I was a teenager back then. Since then computers have gotten faster, people have gotten dumber.

 

[bikersmurf]

I wasn’t at that run but around the same era I did see a LJ80 running rear bags, a 20R, SM-420, Minitruck T-Case & Axles. On the ramp the axles were darn near 90 degrees to each other. The front tire had more sidewall on the ground than tread... as I remember it.

The owner from Vancouver was a machinist who designed and made all his own adapters. Later I heard he replaced the R20 with a diesel.

Found this article...

BC4x4.COM four wheel drive, 4x4, offroad and fourwheeling site.

Edit: read through the article and it was likely a 22R and Suzuki axles when I saw it.

 

[bikersmurf]

Couple more...

 

[Rainman]

I was there and remember the 40. Do not remember who's it was. Only saw it there the one time. BTW that is Rainy Kirk in the the background @Rainman here on mud. He may know who had it.

If you were there, I talked to you. If it's been more than a few years, I don't remember. HAhahaahaaaaa. I kind of remember the truck but it wasn't my style to I didn't spend much time investigating. I've got so much old Cruiser stuff I may even have the registration list somewhere but I may not be able to find it or figure out who it is by that.

 

[Sputnik40]

@Sputnik40 is ancient enough to have been there

Ha! Yeah, I was there - vaguely remember it. Might have been the same year that someone from AR had the 40 on 42" TSLs.