Mike's 1978 FJ40 Build

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Nice acquirement! You will be happy to have the whole set up, once they are mounted and installed.

FWIW - The first time installing the hubcaps can be difficult. You may want to take a straight claw hammer and put the claw in a few of the hubcap springs, and work it back and forth a little, but NOT with enough force to re-bend the springs. Or maybe you can hit a few of the springs with a rubber mallet to loosen them up. I recommend installing & removing the hubcaps a few times with the tire & rim flat on the ground.....$.02
 
I recently purchased a two ton crane from HB and decided to put it to good use. I had an old wood stove, approxately +/- 300 Lbs, sitting in my garage for years and had no way of lifting and moving it to my shop, so finally was able to do so with the new crane. Thanks to GA Architect for the HB crane idea!
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Now I'll have heat in the winter months

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After a few tries of trying to work around the trailer gate I extended the boom and was able to load the wood stove in the middle of my small trailer and effortlessly moved it into my shop which is only couple of hundred feet away from the house. I love multi use tools!! Thanks again GAA.
 
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I used my engine hoist to rip out 15 or so bushes. I tried every other method and the hoist worked perfectly with a racket strap around the bottom of the bush!

You can do more with it than you may have thought lol
 
GA Architect said:
Nice acquirement! You will be happy to have the whole set up, once they are mounted and installed.

FWIW - The first time installing the hubcaps can be difficult. You may want to take a straight claw hammer and put the claw in a few of the hubcap springs, and work it back and forth a little, but NOT with enough force to re-bend the springs. Or maybe you can hit a few of the springs with a rubber mallet to loosen them up. I recommend installing & removing the hubcaps a few times with the tire & rim flat on the ground.....$.02
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GAA thanks for the tip, will do. What tool did you use to pry the hub caps off without scratching the paint?
 
antFJ said:
I used my engine hoist to rip out 15 or so bushes. I tried every other method and the hoist worked perfectly with a racket strap around the bottom of the bush!

You can do more with it than you may have thought lol
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Remove bushes? That's great! I'm sure it will be a busy crane now and in the future.
 
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GAA thanks for the tip, will do. What tool did you use to pry the hub caps off without scratching the paint?
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I use two of these tools in the photo below. The far left and far right piece. I put the 90 degree bends back to back, with the fat blade towards the rim and the smaller blade under the lip of the hubcap. You sort of have to wedge them in, once in place, I twist the smaller blade till the hubcap pops off. (note - I put a hand towel over the hubcap to keep it from flying out of the rim once it pops out of the springs) Remember, my rims are 9" wide, that means my hubcaps are are 4" deeper from the outside of the rim. If you have stock steelies, I would think all you need is the OEM hubcap tool.

I keep these tools inside my Toyota bag in my rig, just in case needed.

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GA Architect said:
I use two of these tools in the photo below. The far left and far right piece. I put the 90 degree bends back to back, with the fat blade towards the rim and the smaller blade under the lip of the hubcap. You sort of have to wedge them in, once in place, I twist the smaller blade till the hubcap pops off. (note - I put a hand towel over the hubcap to keep it from flying out of the rim once it pops out of the springs) Remember, my rims are 9" wide, that means my hubcaps are are 4" deeper from the outside of the rim. If you have stock steelies, I would think all you need is the OEM hubcap tool.

I keep these tools inside my Toyota bag in my rig, just in case needed.

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Thanks GAA, will do.
 
I took my wife out for a cruse today in the 40 it was a glorious day and we were really enjoying our drive until I noticed small puffs of smoke coming from the engine bay so I pulled over. The first hint was a wet and oily fender so I popped the hood and the PS pump was saturated with power steering fluid, I checked the reservoir and it was almost empty and no indication of where exactly the pump was leaking, could not find any obvious signs of leakage, PS hoses and fittings look tight and clean, so I filled the reservoir with fluid and we limped home. Luckily we were only couple of miles from the house. Next week I'll have to pull the pump and determine where it's leaking, I guess I'll be looking for a rebuilt kit for the Toyota FJ60 PS pump, I'll check with @beno for an OEM rebuild kit if still available.
 
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Mike, I have a FJ60 pump. It has a gasket around the cap. Mine was blowing fluid out, at times.

I tried doubling the gasket and couldn't screw the cap on.

So, I went back to the original gasket and it NEVER leaked again.

All I could figure was the gasket wasn't originally seated properly.

May not be your issue, but HTH
 
After very long deliberations on whether or not to drill holes for the rear emblems I decided NO holes so instead knocked off the studs with a Dremel and used layers and layers of double sided tape to install the bling.
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when i originally put on the emblems years ago I used butyl tape to hold them.... very strong... worked great

If the double sided tape doesn't hold up.... i recommend the butyl tape
 
Received the power steering rebuild kit from @beno I'll be removing and rebuilding the PS pump with full documentation - coming soon.


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