Builds Hard Ways - Rigger's 1969 FJ40

[tlaporte]

Looking for a set of new battery cables. I know the OEM are not available. Who makes a good set of aftermarket cables?

There used to be a company called Urban Land Cruisers that made em but they're out of business.

@Fourrunner makes aftermarket replacement cables.

Thread is here.

 

[Rigger]

@Fourrunner makes aftermarket replacement cables.

Thread is here.

Thanks!

 

[Rigger]

 

[Rigger]

Are my two lower radiator hoses situated correctly? The one that connects to the water pump looks like it's at a funny angle.

 

[Rigger]

 

[Rigger]

I don't understand brake line thread sizes. @65swb45 what size brake line thread connectors do I need to get to connect to the master cylinder I bought from you?

I thought it would be M10x1, which is what I think I have. But the line I have won't thread to the MC.

 

[Rigger]

(I must sound really confused.)

 

[65swb45]

10x1.0 is what it is, is what it always has been. What does the end of your fitting look like?

 

[Rigger]

 

[Rigger]

They take a 10mm wrench

 

[Rigger]

 

[Rigger]

There's one threaded into the FJ40 axle tee fitting.

 

[65swb45]

Well, that sounds like it should work. What seems to be the problem? Hole too small? Threads wrong pitch? I've been doing this conversion for 25 years and never encountered a problem.

 

[Rigger]

 

[Rigger]

@65swb45 above are 3 photos.

My prop valve, a JEGS unit, definitely not M10, came with two brass fittings. Those fittings thread into the MC perfectly. But my M10 brake line fittings will not thread into the MC.

 

[Rock40]

There are a ton of brake line adapter fittings out there, Russell makes some very good ones. I'd start with Summit Racing and if it's out there they'll have it.

I have a similar proportioning valve on my 40 and I had to source the correct SAE (for the valve) to metric adapter. The fittings that came with your proportioning valve are likely (very likely) for an SAE flare brake line.

 

[65swb45]

Alfred, being a student of tic-tac-toe, I can see where this is headed. Just send it back. I can't do anything else for you over the Internet.

 

[Rigger]

Mark, I'm not sure I understand the tic-tac-toe comment. And I'm not clear on what you mean by "where this is headed". I'm just trying to understand how to fit things together.

I think the hard lines I need will all be 3/16". The threaded parts, though, there seems to be American threads and Japanese threads. I was surprised to find American threads on the MC because I thought it was a Japanese part.

Thank you for the help you've provided. I don't wish to send anything back to you. I want to make it work, that's my goal.

 

[brew8]

Alfred, I have had on occasion had to go to the parts store and find the connector or adapter that works and sometimes make a short line or two just to make it work. Time to be clever. The speed shop in Billings has lots of stuff for making it work.

 

[65swb45]

Alfred, it is a Toyota MC. I can't think of a reason in the world why it would be anything other than 10x1.0. If you're dead sure your fittings are the same, I don't know what else to say.

I would check one on my end, but I sold out on Thursday (funnily enough @brew8 was one of them) and am currently waiting for more to come in.