Well, a few weeks back Zach was driving his 40 and without warning it started to smoke badly and lose power. He limped it home where we were able to take a look at it in his garage. Turned out #1 cylinder had no compression. Zero. Nothing. I though my compression tester was malfunctioning! The engine never did have very good compression numbers, now the highest is 115, three others under 100.
Started to look for a replacement engine. Remembered that I had spoken for a running FJ60 that Todd slater ha sitting under his deck for quite some time. Zach and I drove down there last Friday and did a compression check and got good results. Lowest cylinder was 134# the others all within 5 PSI. Good test. The engine also sounded good even though the fuel pump was disconnected and we could only hear it running by pouring gas into the carb! It ran good enough like that to drive onto the trailer and into my garage on Saturday, quite amazing. No brakes but that wasn't a deal breaker just had to be careful. So Friday Zach and his dad (Jim) went to bring the 60 here for the transplant.
Got it to my garage, unloaded it and drove her into the garage. No problems. Jim and I worked most of the day Saturday getting the front end off the 60 and prepping the engine for removal. Went well, except when actually trying to remove the engine- it was one of those trucks where the transmission pilot shaft gets stuck fast to the inner race of the pilot bearing making separation of the tranny from the bellhousing difficult. Finally got it pried free and the engine came out from that point without a hitch. Got the engine mounted on our engine stand ready for cleaning. At that point we called it a day.
So yesterday we worked at prepping the donor engine as the 40 is still at their house. Removed most of the bolt on items- bellhosuing and clutch/flywheel, manifolds, smog stuff, coolant pipes, etc. Then got to cleaning the engine. Took a few hours of hard work but finally got it ready for paint. Was pleasantly surprised to see that the rocker assembly was absoutely free of sludge and crap, another good indicator for engine condition. We drained the oil and dropped the pan as we are going to use the (almost) new oil pan from Zach's truck- also using the manifolds, high energy distributor, and as much as possible from the red truck.
Hoping to get the 40 here today but it's raining and with the top off the 40 we'll have to be cognizant of the weather. The sooner it gets here the sooner we can get it ready for the transplant. Zach's getting anxious!
Started to look for a replacement engine. Remembered that I had spoken for a running FJ60 that Todd slater ha sitting under his deck for quite some time. Zach and I drove down there last Friday and did a compression check and got good results. Lowest cylinder was 134# the others all within 5 PSI. Good test. The engine also sounded good even though the fuel pump was disconnected and we could only hear it running by pouring gas into the carb! It ran good enough like that to drive onto the trailer and into my garage on Saturday, quite amazing. No brakes but that wasn't a deal breaker just had to be careful. So Friday Zach and his dad (Jim) went to bring the 60 here for the transplant.
Got it to my garage, unloaded it and drove her into the garage. No problems. Jim and I worked most of the day Saturday getting the front end off the 60 and prepping the engine for removal. Went well, except when actually trying to remove the engine- it was one of those trucks where the transmission pilot shaft gets stuck fast to the inner race of the pilot bearing making separation of the tranny from the bellhousing difficult. Finally got it pried free and the engine came out from that point without a hitch. Got the engine mounted on our engine stand ready for cleaning. At that point we called it a day.
So yesterday we worked at prepping the donor engine as the 40 is still at their house. Removed most of the bolt on items- bellhosuing and clutch/flywheel, manifolds, smog stuff, coolant pipes, etc. Then got to cleaning the engine. Took a few hours of hard work but finally got it ready for paint. Was pleasantly surprised to see that the rocker assembly was absoutely free of sludge and crap, another good indicator for engine condition. We drained the oil and dropped the pan as we are going to use the (almost) new oil pan from Zach's truck- also using the manifolds, high energy distributor, and as much as possible from the red truck.
Hoping to get the 40 here today but it's raining and with the top off the 40 we'll have to be cognizant of the weather. The sooner it gets here the sooner we can get it ready for the transplant. Zach's getting anxious!
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