Builds My Tucson 40's

[JackA]

Front end is back together. Finished up a ton of small loose ends. Brakes are bleed and still need some adjustment. Trailering it over to get the exhaust done tomorrow morning. Hope I can dodge the rain.

I moved it in and out of the garage for the first time under it's own power.

 

[JackA]

All loaded up and ready to go get some exhaust.

 

[wngrog]

All loaded up and ready to go get some exhaust.

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Put a tape measure across the top of those Yokos for me. They look nice and tall for a 31.

 

[JackA]

Put a tape measure across the top of those Yokos for me. They look nice and tall for a 31.

I didn't check the air pressure. They sit at 29 3/4 by 9 1/2.

 

[Living in the Past]

Here is a part we need Toyota to reproduced.

If I knew I was going end up with a few 40s when I bought this one I would have purchased a few of them. Helps with the desert heat. Miss not.having a.open 40 to drive. Probably move it over to my 73 it I ever get it runnimg. Luckily it survived a mishap I had in my 68. The muffler not so much.

 

[JackA]

Never seen one of those heat shields. Does not look hard to reproduce.

My exhaust turned out pretty good. Nice and quiet too. I forgot to take pix when it was in the air on the rack. So, here's some crappy garage pix.

 

[Living in the Past]

Never seen one of those heat shields. Does not look hard to reproduce.

With that muffler would consider one of the 75-78 heat shields.

Appears the first piece of exhaust pipe is getting harder to find. I know still have one that runs under the skid plate. Probably have a used aftermarket that runs above.the skid plate.

 

[letterman52]

Stock muffler is still available.


Description:MUFFLER ASSEMBLY
Part Number: 1751060070

 

[Garrissey]

This is dope. These nice little 40's were in my zip code.

 

[JackA]

Personally I don't like the stock exhaust. I get 2 1/4 and a cheap muffler and it works great. 2 hrs and $375 and its done.

I adjusted the brakes and went up and down the block. I did a series of fast stops to help burn in the brakes. So far so good.

Engines runs good and trans shifts well. Still a few items to do but overall.......its rolling.

 

[JackA]

Painted the hood this morning. Bummer is a bunch of nats flew in and got stuck.

I have driven up and down the block a few times. It's not registered yet and I just applied for insurance this morning. It seems good so far.

 

[JackA]

Despite the hood turning out like crap, I installed it on the 40. Still need to align all the front sheet metal though.

Overall it's almost done , but some gremlins have been kicking my butt. I am taking the day off tomorrow and going wheeling.

 

[steffan]

looks like they did a nice job on the exhaust - how did they hang the muffler?

 

[JackA]

There are 2 hangers for the whole set up. The rear hanger uses the stock location and the one in front of the muffler is hung off a flange of the floor support. Hope that makes sense.

 

[JackA]

Rolled it out for some pix in the sun.........

 

[JackA]

last few......

 

[cruiserboy14]

When are you going for a real spin?!

 

[letterman52]

Look at all that space in the engine bay for an EFI.

 

[JackA]

I need to get it insured and registered before I go cruising.

As for EFI, pretty sure that was not factory in 1974. The next owner can do whatever they'd like though.

 

[Honger]

Man, this is right up there with the red one you did a couple years back and I had the privilege of seeing. Love how quick and efficient you move on these... and the attention to details.