New to me 40

[SteveH]

The 'preheater stove' is a piece of sheet metal bolted to the OEM manifold and connected via a flexy pipe to the bottom of the air cleaner. On cold days, a heat or vacuum operated valve on the air cleaner opens to allow this hot air from the manifold (which gets hot faster than any other engine part) to flow into the carb. This prevents carb icing and promotes faster engine warmup. Review the air cleaner illustration at www.sor.com for your model and you'll see what's not there. These can be fabbed onto headers, if you do not have the OEM exhaust manifold.

The best reason to quickly assess the emission situation before driving it is to be sure that unfiltered air is not going directly into your engine.

 

[brian]

Another pic

the tag on the A pillar is supposed to be the vin tag.
the one in the picture appears to be the engine data tag, that is supposed to be on the ps fender.

 

[100ksla]

the tag on the A pillar is supposed to be the vin tag.
the one in the picture appears to be the engine data tag, that is supposed to be on the ps fender.

Should I go to the trouble of relocating it?

 

[DSRTRDR]

Should I go to the trouble of relocating it?

I wouldn't

 

[Landpimp]

good looking 40

it does appear to me that the 40 may have came from South America and that is also where the bodywork was done.....but I might be wrong, it has a bunch of US spec stuff on it which seems like it would be odd to add in SA.

the front fenders are also a bit droopy....which I have seen time and time again on work done in SA...dont know why they cant ever seem to get them level. However the work look better than most redo's I have seen from SA

 

[Alstruck]

Sweet. What year?


1971 FJ40
1952 VW Split Bug
1997 Jaguar XK8

 

[brian]

i would be asking were the VIN tag is however.

 

[Mikesta]

Someone suggested it before....

Bring it to Torfab if you are really interested. I'd trust that guy with my Kids and trust all my cruisers to his hand.

 

[chuckost]

OEM floor mats???? Mine died years ago. Anybody know where these came from?

...via IH8MUD app

 

[sggoat]

Very nice looking rig!

 

[100ksla]

Resto pic

 

[100ksla]

Another pic

 

[100ksla]

Here's another

 

[100ksla]

Some extra parts

 

[roma042987]

That thing is sweet! Seriously doubt its from south of the border. Ive never seen one from there this nice. South American 40s also didn't have dash pads.

 

[JQ11]

Looks great from the pics - I was watching it on eBay a week or so ago. Never recommended to pay top dollar without seeing it in person but looked good from the pics so hoping it's even better in person for you!

 

[Superfj40]

Starting to look really nice, good job.

 

[roma042987]

anyone know what brand that front bumper is? I like it.

 

[100ksla]

The 40 has arrived and it's really fun to have. Very nice to drive.. Very happy with the condition and it runs great. Didn't take long to put steelies and caps on it...

 

[100ksla]

Also, recoating the front bumper and installing an 8274 winch. Power steering down the road, although it's not bad to drive the way it is.