Lately I have been lurking around checking out the site and gathering information about a rig I was looking to buy ...and... I bought it! So I figured it was time for a little introduction. I am the proud owner of a '87 FJ60. I bought it from a neighboring town where my cousin and I spotted it in a back yard just sitting and rusting away. I was able to get the guy down to $600, but it wouldn't start. He claimed it ran and drove, that it probably just had bad gas in it from sitting for a year. Either way I knew it was worth it... afterall its a toyota... and it has a 5spd!
. It looked as though it had been maintained with all new belts, hoses, new rear suspension, it has a electric fuel pump, he said he rebuilt the front and rear diffs and of course the 5spd which he said he spent $2800 on getting it and having it rebuilt. It was originally tan but has since been less than quality painted green, it has the usual toyota rust and some obvious body work done. The drivers front fender is smashed along with the grille and turnsignal. The interior isn't the greatest but it cleaned up rather well. unfortunately it doesn't have a radio or speakers. I don't have any pictures for you guys so you will have to wait for thoes, sorry 
but I will get some soon.
So far I have drained out the bad gas (it was the most varnish-y looking gas I have ever seen -electric fuel pump was handy) and rebuilt the carb. It will now run on its own but it idles around 3k rpm... I am thinking I have something with the linkage on wrong, you can pull up on the gas pedal and feel a slight "catch" and then the rpms drop and around 1500rpm it starts to miss and die, you can bring it back to life by pushing down slightly past the "catch" but then the rpms race back up to 3k. I think the timing needs to be adjusted slightly as it did backfire out of the carb a couple of times, but I would think it would be close enough to run better than that. Where is the timing mark located? is it on the flywheel, the balancer,... or the crank pulley?.. I couldn't find it although it was dark out when I was looking.
I am somewhat mechanically inclined but when it comes to carbs im lost. Any help would be appreciated.
-Travis
. It looked as though it had been maintained with all new belts, hoses, new rear suspension, it has a electric fuel pump, he said he rebuilt the front and rear diffs and of course the 5spd which he said he spent $2800 on getting it and having it rebuilt. It was originally tan but has since been less than quality painted green, it has the usual toyota rust and some obvious body work done. The drivers front fender is smashed along with the grille and turnsignal. The interior isn't the greatest but it cleaned up rather well. unfortunately it doesn't have a radio or speakers. I don't have any pictures for you guys so you will have to wait for thoes, sorry but I will get some soon.So far I have drained out the bad gas (it was the most varnish-y looking gas I have ever seen -electric fuel pump was handy) and rebuilt the carb. It will now run on its own but it idles around 3k rpm... I am thinking I have something with the linkage on wrong, you can pull up on the gas pedal and feel a slight "catch" and then the rpms drop and around 1500rpm it starts to miss and die, you can bring it back to life by pushing down slightly past the "catch" but then the rpms race back up to 3k. I think the timing needs to be adjusted slightly as it did backfire out of the carb a couple of times, but I would think it would be close enough to run better than that. Where is the timing mark located? is it on the flywheel, the balancer,... or the crank pulley?.. I couldn't find it although it was dark out when I was looking.
I am somewhat mechanically inclined but when it comes to carbs im lost. Any help would be appreciated.
-Travis
