BretwithoneT
SILVER Star
I’ve been lurking for a few years but now jumping in with both feet. You mudders have helped out several of my repairs on the ’84 60 and the 91’ 80 I used to have. After I sold them, it didn’t take long to start missing my Land Cruisers so, I started bugging my boss about letting me have his old ’66 FJ40. After only 4 or 5 years, he finally said, “tell you what….” and now she sits in my garage and I couldn’t be happier.
She’s only got ~64K original miles but since the engine hasn’t really been run in 25 years, hopefully everything still works. The only real rust on it that I can see is on the rear sill, the rest is just surface rust. Since I work with welders who have been giving me lessons, I’m confident I can do any patching required.
I plan on doing a frame off restoration and doing most of the work myself. I’ve got enough experience with the 2F so this should be mostly familiar and hopefully simpler. It came with a 3 speed transfer case and a 4 speed transmission. I want to keep the 3 on the tree but, keep going back to Marks post on the 4 on the tree so that might be an option, otherwise, I need to find a 3 speed transmission. I will probably do a 2” – 2.5” lift so I can run 33’s but otherwise, everything is going to be stock. I’ll post pics of my slow progress.
This is going to be my weekend driver to carry my 3
's to the beach and to the mountains.
I love that within a few hours of it getting into my hands, a mudder had spotted me on the road and the pic was on here.
She’s only got ~64K original miles but since the engine hasn’t really been run in 25 years, hopefully everything still works. The only real rust on it that I can see is on the rear sill, the rest is just surface rust. Since I work with welders who have been giving me lessons, I’m confident I can do any patching required.
I plan on doing a frame off restoration and doing most of the work myself. I’ve got enough experience with the 2F so this should be mostly familiar and hopefully simpler. It came with a 3 speed transfer case and a 4 speed transmission. I want to keep the 3 on the tree but, keep going back to Marks post on the 4 on the tree so that might be an option, otherwise, I need to find a 3 speed transmission. I will probably do a 2” – 2.5” lift so I can run 33’s but otherwise, everything is going to be stock. I’ll post pics of my slow progress.
This is going to be my weekend driver to carry my 3
's to the beach and to the mountains. I love that within a few hours of it getting into my hands, a mudder had spotted me on the road and the pic was on here.
Welcome to the madness, and great to see another truck rescued 
