FJ55 My stock build for DD (3 Viewers)

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i have a 78 FJ55 with factory PS that will become a dead body soon. i am taking the entire drive train and engine out and installing it into my 1966 FJ45LV. once i am finished with the swap, whatever is left is for sale. the body is shot, but the interior is in great condition and most of the exterior parts are there. tried to post pics but says i am over my quota. WTF?
 
Update:

Decided to go with Rust Bullets Blackshell to paint a majority of the underside of the pig. Looks to be an easy good way of protecting it from anymore rust damage.

Got the t-case rebuild, brake master, all new drum cylinders, carb rebuild kit, and distributor rebuild kit in yesterday.

Took the carb off and began the dissasemly. I made drawings of where each part came off so it will go back together the same way. And bought a gallon of carb dip from Napa. I can say that that stuff works extremely well the parts that I have cleaned so far look almost brand new. I'm thinking it could be my new cleaner of choice. Though it's pretty toxic.

On the carb kit I found out one thing. I bought a kit from Kurt thinking it would be everything. When I got it home and looked at it it doesn't have some of the parts I really need. When I went back and looked at his pic on his site it showed exactly what I bought so my fault for not looking. I ended up bying a complete kit from CCOT for a little more money. So I waiting for that to come it.

One question are the vaccum lines and emmision lines. They have become hard and brittle. So they all need to be replaced. Where is a good economical place to buy 50ft of vaccum lines that retain the stock look? I have a 50ft section of hose that I use for drip irrigation that is almost a perfect match but I'm not sure if it would stand up to the heat. It would also be nice to find the little silver stickers that are on the current lines.
 
Trollhole said:
One question are the vaccum lines and emmision lines. They have become hard and brittle. So they all need to be replaced. Where is a good economical place to buy 50ft of vaccum lines that retain the stock look? I have a 50ft section of hose that I use for drip irrigation that is almost a perfect match but I'm not sure if it would stand up to the heat. It would also be nice to find the little silver stickers that are on the current lines.
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LandPimp found OEM for cheap!

https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=33491&highlight=vacuum
 
Most excellent!!! As you can see from my Avitar i have a smilar 55, your paint looks a similar colour to mine, you dont have the code for it do you?
 
stock bumper

Trollhole said:
Yes.

They are cleaning up nicely.
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you will definately want my front bumper, it is one of the nicest things on the truck. looks almost new. either it never got hit or it was replaced somewhere along the road and then the truck was parked cuz it is realy nice for a 78 pig. i will look inside tomorrow and let you know what else i find.

PS edit, but you should check with cruiser dan bc a lot of things are still available thru yota.
 
Been working on the carb this week. All I can say is wow! What a complicated series of parts. Carb dip is the best. I'm pretty much through with cleaning and have gotten the main body back together. Most of the BBs used for one way valves were stuck to the bottom of the tubes. Found the accelerator pump shaft has one also in the bottom. Took a long pair of needle nose pliers to remove the clip and then a small screwdriver to free the stuck ball. I'm glad the hard part is over. And now I see why Jimc and mark charge so much to rebuild one.



Before.

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Assembly and my funky diagrams to keep everything where it should go.

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Who knows how the radio is wired up on a pig. I've got the radio it is very basic. really only one power wire and and two speaker wires.

Question where on the wiring loom does it pug in for power and where was the original Am radios speaker located?
 
WOW! That carb looks awesome. How long did it take ya? (Woops... just read you been working on it this week)

Any special tools that you used? (I just see needle nose pliers, screwdrivers, wrench)


THanks for posting the Pig project! Really is cool.
 
Trollhole said:
Who knows how the radio is wired up on a pig. I've got the radio it is very basic. really only one power wire and and two speaker wires.

Question where on the wiring loom does it pug in for power and where was the original Am radios speaker located?
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On my 40, there is a speaker (looks orig) under the dash...
 
Finished up the Carb last night. In all it took about 6 hr to tear down and rebuild.

Both kits rebuild kits I got from CCOT and Cruiseroutfitters had their pros and cons. CCOT had more gaskets for the complete assembly while Cruiseroutfitters had more clips and a better quality of parts. The float bowl metering device from cruiseroutfitters had a screen where as the one from CCOT didn't. All and all I spent about 60 dollars to rebuild it.

I was amazed at how clean it came out considering it had been sitting with dried up fuel in it since 1985. Most of the small orfices were clogged with only the main jets free of dibris.

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Looks good Marshall.

I especially like your diagrams.

Brian
 
I have to ask, in the under bonnet shot, what is that rail that looks like a row of injectors? my 2f dosnt have that...?
 
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