new here and first time fj owner

[EMOTHUG]

Been around the valley for a better part if 20 years. Have had a dozen or so Toyota's. Got my first fj80 this week. Needs a little this and a little that. Took it up to John's peaks for a little test hit and to get familiar with it last night. Very impressed. Out did my last xj that was midly built. Only issue I noticed was it liked to get pretty warm on the longer hills. But definetly a fan. Future mods custom bumpers and slides. Larger springs,gears and probably just a single locker

 

[retrofive]

Nice! Welcome. Drag you and your 80 to our meeting next week (Feb 8th) and say hello.

 

[retrofive]

Looks like you have '91-92? w/ 3FE? no?

Obviously here on 'mud there is a lot of great info. Also Jon's site: http://www.sdsysdesign.com/tlc/fsm.html for your model if it is what it looks to be.

 

[EMOTHUG]

Sounds like a plan, when and where?

 

[EMOTHUG]

and yes on the 91 3fe

 

[retrofive]

Sounds like a plan, when and where?

first post here:
https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/january-meeting-time.826817/

 

[retrofive]

Ya, I know confusing thread title, we were shooting for a Jan meeting, but got pushed to early Feb.

 

[Kief]

Welcome! I've seen some excellent deals on those years of '80 series 'Cruisers. The forum here is a great asset for fixing stuff. Keep an eye on the temp, obviously. A muratic acid flush may do wonders, if it doesn't kill your radiator. I did such on a rig last summer and the performance of the radiator was horrible before and awesome afterward. Hope to see ya at the meeting.

 

[EMOTHUG]

it has a new radiator and fan and all that, water pump seems a little weak so im just going to set up a pair of electric fans and go from there.

 

[Kief]

Fan clutch? E-fans might do the trick too.

 

[EMOTHUG]

Are these things pretty sensitive to radiator cap? I found the OEM one tucked away and tore back and it was 13psi? And the one in it is 6. And I'm almost positive its a fan issue. At idle and running through town or on the highways it runs cool as can be. Always about 100-150 yards into a climb that I have it in 4low it heats up super fast . it has some cheese after market 5blade metal fan that runs all the time off the pully. Will be deleting that and running an e fan tomorrow and go find a climb to test

 

[retrofive]

Can be. i would use the stock OEM rad cap (if good), replace the fan blade with OEM and service the fan clutch. IMHO a e fan tossed in there is band-aid.

 

[EMOTHUG]

It would be used as a bandaid but I do want to run an e fan anyways as back up I'm thinking?

 

[EMOTHUG]

Minus the heat issue and the random parts coming looks on this and my brothers sammi today was a pretty good day. First time up salt creek. Was fun. Looks like a few more runs are in order to explore

 

[Kief]

You should see a steady climb from 1/3 to middle to 2/3 but it shouldn't get near the "H". My fJ62 always ran at 1/3 unless pulling a hill really hard, maybe 1/2. The factory gauge could be off but you can put a cooking thermometer on the top section of the cooling fins and get a good guess, 180/190 should be about 1/3 up the gauge.
Do some searching here on mud and you will find lots of good tidbits..

 

[EMOTHUG]

It got hot enough to steam out. And everything under the hood is good to go minus the fan situation.

 

[CJF]

You should see a steady climb from 1/3 to middle to 2/3 but it shouldn't get near the "H".

On a 91-92, at least, temp gauge should rise quickly to halfway and then stick like glue. Never had either of mine go even a hint above that without an obvious issue like a bad fan clutch.

 

[EMOTHUG]

I think the problem is the HG is starting to go. Everything has been good power wise and I did a back up auxiliary e fan for just in case and was in the mountains all day yesterday without a problem. Well was going to adjust the valves today and noticed a very slight milk residue... Long story short looks like one of my soon to be upgrades will be postponed while I do this

 

[Kief]

If you have tried everything else then that may be the culprit. You don't have to pull the block but the 3fe has a lot of stuff in the way.. I have a sniff test kit but it may or may not be good but the slime is not a good sign..

 

[EMOTHUG]

Pulling the intake and exhaust looks fun. Its the only thing I can think if. But it didn't heat up at all yesterday. I might just use some blue devil and limp it a little longer so when I pull the head I can have some work done to it.