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amazing good tech here. My tach is not working in my 75 series, of course I am going from a non fuel injected 1fz to a fuel injected 1fz, so I assumed it would work. I will try to swap tach's and see if it works! Thanks,Big day today....obviously got the truck running. Couple small issues but nothing major. The 1FZ tach doesn't work with the 1HDT so this mess was immediately created......and most likely resolved.
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This is pretty interesting....to get the tach to work, the guts of the 1FZ tach were put in a 24v 70 housing with the 70 face. I vaguely remember when this was all done a back in the teens. It's pretty ingenious how the guy did it. Definitely homebuilt. But it worked.
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I have always tried when I buy a motor to get 2 things....the harness from the truck and the gauge cluster. Always. Good reason for it too. We were able to scavenge the guts from the HDJ81s tach and swap out for the 1FZ. Fit the same for the most part. Really different.....HDJ81 on left, 1FZ on right
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My Scheelmanns are still sitting on the shelf in the shopSome day I will get around to putting them in the 79. I definitely hold the record for the length of time it took to build a 79. Mine has been collecting dust for years.
Question about the mounting of the air clear base. Where exactly is it suppose to bolt up? I got one from Onur that was suppose to be for the right one for my year 79 but it won't bolt up and work with the factory snorkel.
Yeah I toyed with modifying the 80 box but figured it would be easier to buy the one that bolts in. Well I should have know that it wouldn’t just bolt in. I don’t think there has been one thing on my truck that was a “bolt in”.
Thanks for the pics. I think there is a bottom bracket we must be missing.
for now I just have a clamp on k&n mounted on the turbo
I just bought new instrument cluster glass. I think it was around $20; not worth trying to polish it out for that price. I am planning on polishing my dash pod plastic given that's NLA. I'm sure this is common knowledge but Novus is the bomb for polishing plastic. I restored a couple of old pinball machines and this stuff made the plastic parts look new:
Amazon product ASIN B002UCYRZU
Chris, you need to get a proper wing nut on that air cleaner. Just saying.....
don't you have room to run the exhaust inside the frame? that's what I was doing with the LJ-78/1HD-FT project, had it all mocked up, then sold that project.
don't you have room to run the exhaust inside the frame? that's what I was doing with the LJ-78/1HD-FT project, had it all mocked up, then sold that project.