First of all I want to day thanks to everyone for the wealth of information on this forums without it I would be lost.
Around 10 months ago I purchased my first fj60 a few months after seeing one for sell and falling in love with them. I purchased an 84 FJ60 with around 288k miles.
The PO had inherited this from his uncle and had let his teenagers drive it and most of the maintenance had slipped. I looked it over and decided it was something work taking on. I haggled and picked it up for $800. The fuel gauge was not working but the PO said he always reset the tip counter and that he usually got around 200 miles on a tank it was sitting around 120 miles. I made it 4 blocks and ran out of gas. Called the PO and he ran we some gas. I drove the rest of the way home with no problems.
Got to work reading the forums to find out what to do first I purchased a used drivers door handle. I also purchased a set of Nexan Rodian II 31” tires to pass inspection. Being middle of summer I was really wanting some AC . All the original equipment was there minus the AC belt. I hoped the PO’s kids had just been too lazy to replace it and I was right. AC working but not blowing cold I found some r12 on local classifieds site and recharged and it is still blowing cold today with no leaks.
I started by replacing plug, wires and distributor cap and rotor. This improved my mileage by around double! My pocket book was happy. Also fixed the fuel sending unit so I knew how much was in the tank.
The main reason I purchased the FJ60 was I have two kids and a dog and needed something to go camping in. After driving the truck to work and back for a few weeks working out the kinks I took the family on a trip. We went to the mountains around 40 miles on way on hwy and the rest on mountain roads. Now I had been driving this for a while and come to terms with the lack of power. Well what I experienced was a clutch going out just so happens that kills your power...
Over the next couple of weeks I babied it and researched clutch replacement. We took one more trip up the mountain against my better judgement as my then 3 year old son begged me to take the truck. We made it around 8 miles up the mountain before the clutch totally burned up. I spend a good portion of that evening getting the truck home.
Let me say I am not a mechanic never have been but love working with my hands and I feel I am mechanically inclined. I started taking bolts out with the help of post on the forums here. It took me (yes I did this all by my self) around 1.5 weeks of after work work. I got everything replaced and experienced new found power! I also desmoged around the same time that helped as well. I also replaced the intake manifold gasket. Enjoyed driving the FJ60 for hunting season and spent my night browsing the forums and see what I wanted to do next.
I installed a new Battery and I also installed a set of PT cruiser seats.
This took me to last winter and I have a very small one car garage and did not work on anything but small parts upgrades. Installed a new set of hood bumpers. I also cleaned up the rust on the hood a painted over it to protect it.
Around 10 months ago I purchased my first fj60 a few months after seeing one for sell and falling in love with them. I purchased an 84 FJ60 with around 288k miles.
The PO had inherited this from his uncle and had let his teenagers drive it and most of the maintenance had slipped. I looked it over and decided it was something work taking on. I haggled and picked it up for $800. The fuel gauge was not working but the PO said he always reset the tip counter and that he usually got around 200 miles on a tank it was sitting around 120 miles. I made it 4 blocks and ran out of gas. Called the PO and he ran we some gas. I drove the rest of the way home with no problems.
Got to work reading the forums to find out what to do first I purchased a used drivers door handle. I also purchased a set of Nexan Rodian II 31” tires to pass inspection. Being middle of summer I was really wanting some AC . All the original equipment was there minus the AC belt. I hoped the PO’s kids had just been too lazy to replace it and I was right. AC working but not blowing cold I found some r12 on local classifieds site and recharged and it is still blowing cold today with no leaks.
I started by replacing plug, wires and distributor cap and rotor. This improved my mileage by around double! My pocket book was happy. Also fixed the fuel sending unit so I knew how much was in the tank.
The main reason I purchased the FJ60 was I have two kids and a dog and needed something to go camping in. After driving the truck to work and back for a few weeks working out the kinks I took the family on a trip. We went to the mountains around 40 miles on way on hwy and the rest on mountain roads. Now I had been driving this for a while and come to terms with the lack of power. Well what I experienced was a clutch going out just so happens that kills your power...
Over the next couple of weeks I babied it and researched clutch replacement. We took one more trip up the mountain against my better judgement as my then 3 year old son begged me to take the truck. We made it around 8 miles up the mountain before the clutch totally burned up. I spend a good portion of that evening getting the truck home.
Let me say I am not a mechanic never have been but love working with my hands and I feel I am mechanically inclined. I started taking bolts out with the help of post on the forums here. It took me (yes I did this all by my self) around 1.5 weeks of after work work. I got everything replaced and experienced new found power! I also desmoged around the same time that helped as well. I also replaced the intake manifold gasket. Enjoyed driving the FJ60 for hunting season and spent my night browsing the forums and see what I wanted to do next.
I installed a new Battery and I also installed a set of PT cruiser seats.
This took me to last winter and I have a very small one car garage and did not work on anything but small parts upgrades. Installed a new set of hood bumpers. I also cleaned up the rust on the hood a painted over it to protect it.