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Take the same picture of your engine bay that I took of mine.

Today and tomorrow I can take as many picture of my engine bay that you need but I sold my rig and the new owner is suppose to be picking it up this week. (I have 6 more Land Cruisers so it's not like I'm doing without or anything.) this is the only 1977 Cal emission rig though.
 
D'Animal said:
Take the same picture of your engine bay that I took of mine.


Here's a couple of pics of my engine compartment.
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One of the first things you need to do is get the fuel filter and rubber fuel line moved. If that is in fact the feed line from the pump, you have it connected to the wrong port on the carburetor. The metal line with the banjo bolt is your return line not your main feel line.

I run the filters before the pump since it makes the pump last longer.

The rubber fuel line is laying near the air rail. The air rails get crazy hot and can melt the rubber hose. You can reuse your fittings along with some metal fuel line and re-bend a new fuel line pretty easy. Always remember the air filter housing when bending new fuel lines.
 
D'Animal said:
One of the first things you need to do is get the fuel filter and rubber fuel line moved. If that is in fact the feed line from the pump, you have it connected to the wrong port on the carburetor. The metal line with the banjo bolt is your return line not your main feel line.

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Moved, thanks. That's the way it came when I got the truck, funny I got it to idle like that and it wasn't flooding. I will get some hard lines bend asap. I think my truck is fed thanks to your site on emissions at SOR. Now I need to locate the VCV valves (the two round thingy on top of your water pump)and the Vacuum Switch Valves(the two small canisters that sits on the vac surge tank), these little cans, do they have electric to them? I don't see any unuse wires in that area, do you have a pic of that where they go?
Thanks for your help
 
Switching the fuel lines should make it run way better. Connected the way it was, it will idle but starve for fuel and stumble the rest of the time.

I think you have a Cal rig. Look at my picture on post #15. It has one canistor, just like yours. The federal has two with wiring connected to them and they are bolted to a different style surge tank.


IMO, the only thing that looks federal on yours is the distibutor. The rest look all california to me.
 
D'Animal said:
Switching the fuel lines should make it run way better. Connected the way it was, it will idle but starve for fuel and stumble the rest of the time.

I think you have a Cal rig. Look at my picture on post #15. It has one canistor, just like yours. The federal has two with wiring connected to them and they are bolted to a different style surge tank.


IMO, the only thing that looks federal on yours is the distibutor. The rest look all california to me.
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Yes, I saw that, but in looking the SOR page, Gas Filter EMIS-(#45) has three connections and mine has two(like the fed model). I'M SO CONFUSED. It would not be inconceiveable that some PO added that white surge tank to fool the smog guy, the way my smog is hooked up right now, it looks exactly like what a '76 would look like(found a smog diagram for a 76 on Tech). Aside from the lable under the hood, is there any other way to tell? And I'm looking for those two plugs the the VSV plugs in and they are nowhere to be found.
 
D'animal, is there a difference between the fed and calif VSV(the black box with all the vac tubes running into it)?
 
D'Animal said:
If SOR does not have them and the bracket, FJ40Jim may have some or Mark down in Burbank.

They could also tell you exactly what you need as far as smog vs VIN #. I'm just guessing.
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Good call. I just called Mark and he told me to take it down to the smog ref and have them make the call, no point piecing it all together and find out it's the other one . Thanks for entertaining all my questions.
 
D'Animal said:
If SOR does not have them and the bracket, FJ40Jim may have some or Mark down in Burbank.

They could also tell you exactly what you need as far as smog vs VIN #. I'm just guessing.
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Hey D'animal, do you have any extra '77 smog parts that I can liberate from you? Anything will help.
Thanks
 
I have to make an appt. with the smog ref. but I want to start looking for part that is common to both. Those two valves on the thermostat housing is one of the items shared by both. I went to SOR yesterday and they're out of them.
 
D'animal, I figured out my truck is a cali model by cleaning off some of the paint on the label under the hood, it has the black label...mmmm....Scotch. Thanks for all your help and guidance. I went to SOR and they had a few of the stuff that would work for the truck but I have to try to be as frugal as possible being that i'm a single parent of two boys so I put an ad in CL and LO AND BEHOLD somebody(Paul) answered the ad and had the complete '77 smog still in the truck(a fj55) and wants to sell. Today I went and picked up the whole thing including the carb, dissy and carb fan. Would you have a picture of how the carb fan is mounded?
Thanks again for your help.
 
D'Animal said:
You may find this thread very useful.

FJ40Jim was very helpful and he is half way across the country. That is why he gets my carb business. And the fact that he does an outstanding job.

https://forum.ih8mud.com/40-55-seri...today-have-few-questions-about-1977-fj40.html
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Bookmarked that thread, thanks. Dude, you started out with a Mess!
I got the fan off of a fj55, is the bracket different from the 40? From your pics it looks like the fan is mounted on top of the inner fender, if that's the case, this bracket won't work. I am having a problem uploading my pics, it keeps failing. Would you have a better pic of the fan and how it's mounted? And if the bracket is different, would you have the right one that I can buy from you?

Thanks
 
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