half a box of wine , 5 cuttoff wheels and 2 bandaids....

[island45]

OK it was 3/4 box of wine.... I gotfr impatient about getting some bumper ends so I built one...

 

[RUSH55]

Will probably last 10 times longer than OEM

 

[island45]

Yeah, and now I'm listening to some really old country videos. But I had a good afternoon after work. I thought this came out OK

 

[xtiaan2000]

I love boxes of wine! They seem to go on and on!

 

[Big Sexy]

Nice work

 

[island45]

Thanks Mr. 'Sexy'... Pretty much an old beater to take the grandkids into town for an Ice cream when they visit in the summer. They won't give a darn if it is 'all toyota' or 'all ford' as long as they have a good time. AND Ice cream. Hoping it will be licensed and insured by mid May and all this fun with bringing back the old family wagon for less than 2 grand in parts.

 

[island45]

Oh wait... Where did this FF rear axle come from?

 

[bobm]

You've basically took my 2 favorite Automobiles and made 1 love it! Flathead in the future??

 

[island45]

Flathead??? Just had a '51 mercury crank turned so I can build a 255+ stroker for my woodie wagon. That's next winter's main project and I have 8 good flathead blocks if I live that long. I have only had two automobile (ok, truck) fixations in my 67 years.... Landcruisers and flathead fords. I have sworn both of them off multiple times as they are like meth to me, and totally foul up my 'real' life....Just figure out I am pretty much Walter White on this build.

 

[island45]

Took a tour around the East end of the island this afternoon. Kind of rainy and cool for no windshield. At least I rigged up some kind of license plate, a brake light and a rear view mirror. In high range it's scary fast. 33's and 3.73 gears. Maybe I need seat belts???

 

[RUSH55]

That is some quality entertainment

 

[island45]

I drove this vehicle with my wife and 3 kids and a golden retriever, towing a 15' aloha travel trailer through Cottonwood AZ and many other parts of the SW in about '92. Road up to Jerome was interesting, but not as scary as the skinny little ridge road into Death Valley from the North End. Also, running into a headwind of 40 mph in the high desert with that load was like pulling a looong grade. Rev it as high as you dared in 3rd, shift into 4th and you would gradually lose momentum and youd be back in 3rd and do it all over again. On the way home we were on the Oregon coast at sea level and it was drizzling (duh). The 55 felt like it had a 350 in it. Intercooler-water injection. AZ was worth it though. Still think of that trip.

 

[RUSH55]

Man, you got any pics from that trip?! That sounds great! I had zero ideas of what an FJ55 was at that time

 

[island45]

I have a 35mm film nagative of the 55 parked in front of the Sisson Museum (my last name) in Shasta Ca. with the aloha in tow. I would love to get it digitalized. Saw my ex wife the other day and she has a handful of snapshots and said she would have copies made of the ones from that trip. We brought a 50 lb sack of oatmeal for breakfasts and only ate a grand total of one meal OUT in a month long trip. It was a Wendy's. The kids still talk about that lunch.......

 

[island45]

I have placed this pic on here a few times in other threads. It was our second fj 55 and the soccer mom DD. For some reason the ex always wanted to go to cross country skiing (wtf)? Manning Park in BC Canada. I think that highway in winter is the road salt capital of the Western Hemisphere. By the fourth winter there was nothing left of my beloved 55. Or Her.... Oh, note the split rims with hubcaps. Took some drilling and tapping on all those clips.

 

[RUSH55]

Need that pic for the Pig Picture Album

 

[island45]

Here it is today.... Licensed as a 79 toyota landcruiser pickup, color, blue. The international harvestor pickup fenders I found out in the back fence line of my junkyard needed extensions to meet the running boards. Driver side I cut up a GI can with pinholes on the bottom and passenger side I cut a sectiion out of a high school locker. I bet the locker was like 11 gauge!

 

[island45]

Oh and the bench seat is a 3rd row seat from my old '88 3/4 ton 4x4 suburban, maybe I'm bragging here, but the sub was gov't issue, roll up windows, vinyl seats and floors and an SM 465. Sold it 15 years ago to my best buddy and he's still my best buddy. His DD. How cool is a 'burb with a granny low 4 spd from the factory???

 

[RUSH55]

That’s a pretty sweet ol’ truck you have now. Don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone do anything quite like that with a 55. Should be some good fun for you for years to come!

 

[island45]

Compression test the other day after about 100 miles shows 155 in the front and the others 150 +_ except number 5 which is 145. Idles sweet at 20.5 inches on the vacuum gauge. As it had mostly sat for 20 years, these new numbers were an improvement of approximately 5-10 percent. Using some marvel mystery oil in the gas and oil. Seafoam here and there. The old gal seems to like that stuff.