This Sunday, I am picking up a new (to me) Cruiser. 1980 FJ40. I will finally have a working Cruiser, and it is not 600miles away from me.
I cant wait.
I cant wait.
I guess I am going to have to become an official member now
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Sweet, congrats on the purchase, cant wait to see some pics.
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did you pick up farr off roads 40??? if so SWEET!!! ............... either way congrats on the score!!!!
see you on the trails soon
JP
see you on the trails soon
JP
Thats a nice 40 if he did.
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Yes, that is the one.
ClemsonCruiser
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Nice! I am glad it went to someone in our club!!! I had agreed to buy and wasworking on delivery stuff and had to call him back. Just not a good time for us. Very nice 40!!!
Congrats, welcome to the sickness... 
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Im down with the sickness, Uh wah ah ah ah.
I got it home today. Whew, what a drive. With the 38.5x16 TSLs, it sounded like a small plane. I drove it from Cartersville GA, to Anderson SC, 14x miles? I made it all the way to exit 14 on I85N in SC and the pass side rear tire went flat. I needed to get to exit 19. I brought tools, liquids, and forgot the jack. My girlfriend brought me one from my Montero. I took off the 38s, I dont like them. Will be selling soon. I put on 36x12.5 TSLs on 15x8s. I like it much better, so does the steering pump and box.
I got it home today. Whew, what a drive. With the 38.5x16 TSLs, it sounded like a small plane. I drove it from Cartersville GA, to Anderson SC, 14x miles? I made it all the way to exit 14 on I85N in SC and the pass side rear tire went flat. I needed to get to exit 19. I brought tools, liquids, and forgot the jack. My girlfriend brought me one from my Montero. I took off the 38s, I dont like them. Will be selling soon. I put on 36x12.5 TSLs on 15x8s. I like it much better, so does the steering pump and box.
awesome 
gonna need some pics...
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You can see some in the for sale section, but I will put updated ones soon. Hopefully I can get off early enough to mess with it after work this week.
I need to learn more about carbs. It came with a weber. It dies when tilting the truck downhill on the driver side. I know it is no EFI, but it should keep running on the small inclines I was on today.
I need to learn more about carbs. It came with a weber. It dies when tilting the truck downhill on the driver side. I know it is no EFI, but it should keep running on the small inclines I was on today.
I don't know much about carbs either, but i have always heard that the weber's on cruisers are crap. You should put the stock carb back on. But what do i know, i drive a fuel injected 80
Cool deal you are right down the road from me. Keep us posted with pics and everything!!
If thats the 40 matt ^ showed me thats a nice 40. Why'd you take the 38s off of it?
As far as carbs go, I used to hate them. I still dont like them that much but dealing with the stock carb on my 82 22r 4wd it was just a pain and after rebuilding and buying a used one and combining the two carbs together i couldnt ever get it to run good and it always shut off. And i had heard the stock carbs were awesome on the toyota mini's. I put on a weber 32/36 carb last week, man if you rode in that thing you can barely tell its carb'd. Granted i did only get to drive it for a day or two but i tested it out on hills and a few things and it drove like a dream. You didnt have to give it any gas or anything to crank it up, it ran good on hills, it idles like a dream, and when coming to a stop sign you dont have to constantly give it gas to keep it from choking out. I think if you just get the carb set up right you will like it better. I dont know much about the engines that come in 40s but i dont think you can go wrong with a rightly setup weber.
You may be better off going to propane though if you want to switch your weber. This seems to be my answer to a lot of things because i want to run it so bad
As far as carbs go, I used to hate them. I still dont like them that much but dealing with the stock carb on my 82 22r 4wd it was just a pain and after rebuilding and buying a used one and combining the two carbs together i couldnt ever get it to run good and it always shut off. And i had heard the stock carbs were awesome on the toyota mini's. I put on a weber 32/36 carb last week, man if you rode in that thing you can barely tell its carb'd. Granted i did only get to drive it for a day or two but i tested it out on hills and a few things and it drove like a dream. You didnt have to give it any gas or anything to crank it up, it ran good on hills, it idles like a dream, and when coming to a stop sign you dont have to constantly give it gas to keep it from choking out. I think if you just get the carb set up right you will like it better. I dont know much about the engines that come in 40s but i dont think you can go wrong with a rightly setup weber.
You may be better off going to propane though if you want to switch your weber. This seems to be my answer to a lot of things because i want to run it so bad
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I dont know who matt is. This the tan 40 in Cartersville, GA.
Link to for sale section.... https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=181418
Something is wrong with it. It has been offroaded before with this carb. It runs great on the road, idles great, a lot of power. I was in the woods yesterday by my fathers house and when I put the front down in a small washout, it just died. Would not start at all. You could crank and crank. I winched to get my tires up, once back level, it cranked right up like nothing was wrong. I bet if you were a redlight pointing downhill, it would die. It is not offroadable like this. Yes, the PO did tell me about it before I bought it.
Do they sell weber rebuild kits at regular parts stores? I searched and was reading some stuff here. Some guys say the weber sucks offroad, then others say if tuned correctly it runs great offroad. I think I am going to rebuild it, or atleast try. I dont know anything about carbs.
Link to for sale section.... https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=181418
Something is wrong with it. It has been offroaded before with this carb. It runs great on the road, idles great, a lot of power. I was in the woods yesterday by my fathers house and when I put the front down in a small washout, it just died. Would not start at all. You could crank and crank. I winched to get my tires up, once back level, it cranked right up like nothing was wrong. I bet if you were a redlight pointing downhill, it would die. It is not offroadable like this. Yes, the PO did tell me about it before I bought it.
Do they sell weber rebuild kits at regular parts stores? I searched and was reading some stuff here. Some guys say the weber sucks offroad, then others say if tuned correctly it runs great offroad. I think I am going to rebuild it, or atleast try. I dont know anything about carbs.
Glad to see you finally have one of your own! That Cruiser is a long time GA Cruiser. I believe that's Kenny Greenburg's old rig. He moved away a few years ago and it sat for a while. Roy picked it up when Kenny needed to sell it. I looked at it before he cleaned it up and sold it to you. I think you picked it up for a good deal given what I saw on the for sale page.
Did you pick it up from Roy's house or from the shop? If it was the shop, that's where my piggy is!
Did you pick it up from Roy's house or from the shop? If it was the shop, that's where my piggy is!
hmm, sounds like the gas isn't getting there...an Aisin would be a good idea.
Matt is the guy above me. Go here. http://redlineweber.com/ Im almost positive you can buy rebuild kits as well as jets and stuff from there. Rebuild it yourself or get someone thats good with carbs to do it. Theres so many pieces and a grain of sand can mess your whole carb up apparently.
You may have more luck with the Aisan carbs but i sure didn't. Theres just to much smog crap on there and if you try to plug them off it messes with something else. Your problem could be fuel pressure or that its flooding out.
Nice 40 though.
You may have more luck with the Aisan carbs but i sure didn't. Theres just to much smog crap on there and if you try to plug them off it messes with something else. Your problem could be fuel pressure or that its flooding out.
Nice 40 though.
