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I cannot believe someone else had an AC installed as poorly as the one in my 1982 FJ40!
Unfortunately my FJ40 has way too much in common with this one, I'll write it up to expose another criminal Land Cruiser hack!
I see this story is a couple of years old. Have you any new information regarding piston availability? Mine is an "F" engine, 1970. I did recently have the valve cover off to adjust valves and while dirty, I don't see anything untoward so fingers crossed my head is good. Thanks.This thread had been put on hold due to threats of extortion from Brett Young, but since extortion has gone from threat to actuality, there is no reason to accede to his demands.
So on with the show.
The engine and tranny are mated with the low miles clutch that came in the truck. It is one of the few things that was actually as advertised on this truck. The BH mounting ears, oil filter, starter, carb & P-brake are installed after the engine is in the bay.
Look out below.
From here, the tail of the trans is picked up by a floorjack to allow raising & lowering to facilitate installing the rear mounts. Once they are loosely together, the front mounts will be bolted up.
After the engine is in, the junkyard Hyundai battery is replaced with a stock Gr24 battery. Seems like a good idea to at least have a stock size battery to run the winch & aircon.
The ground battery cables are all in reasonable condition, so they are cleaned & reinstalled. The positive cable was an old parts store replacement that was almost completely burned up at the starter end. It's replaced with a proper cable and terminal.
The AC hoses were all routed wrong. This one is now positioned so the belt will not cut any further into the hose.
Underneath, the P-brake has to be rebuilt due to all the 90Wt leaving the t-case via the p-brake.
After much reconnection of heater hoses, AC hoses, fuel hoses, wiring, new oil & filter, priming of oil pump, etc, it is ready for first start:
Vroom!
That concludes restoring the engine to normal operating condition.
Next up: Bo(n)dy work.
The annoying emails from Photobucket have been piling up in the spam bucket for a while. The ones that say "Your account has too many pics and is blocked until you pay us $400".
When this thread was originally started, I think some of the pics were hosted on PB. If somebody is bored, please read all 15 pages and post up if there are broken photo links. I will fix by hosting pics on 'mud.
Thanks!
What he saidRead through most of it today (from the start) and did not find any broken links. Great thread btw, learned a lot thanks!
Photobucket really dropped the ball when they went to a pay model with that insane price. They were one of the most used photo hosting sites for over a decade and then boom I’d guess lost 99.95 % of users in one day. Had they used a more realistic price I’m sure more people would have paid it. But I remember it was 400-600 per year.... I think realistically I would have paid 50-60 but screw them. I hate those emails they send each day