Northern Illinois FJ40 Left for Dead
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Did one last fitment last night before painting. All body mount bolts line up well, even with the replacement rear tub. I've set some time aside on Monday to start the painting process. Overall things are looking very good. Its amazing how far it's come in the last 17 months.
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Finally got everything painted. I decided to go with Monstaliner for paint. I used medium blue from the stock Toyota colors and mixed it myself. In the end I'm pretty happy with it. If anyone is thinking of using this product I can give you some advise on what I learned. I'll start to reassemble it now over the next few months and hopefully have it running before fall.
Why did you monstaliner the outside? Your bodywork was nice enough to do a really nice paint job.
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The body work and filler turned out much better than expected. Saying that, its not perfect. This Fj40 had alot of imperfections and modifications that paint would have shown. The monstaliner covered those spots very well. I could have taken more time to make the body work perfect, but I decided to go this route. I'm not unhappy with it, and it did save alot of time and money.
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You did a nice job spraying the liner. But it does impact resale value significantly typically when you bedliner the outside of a fj40. But if you don't care about value or are never going to sell it then that is not a issue. I thought your body work was pretty good personally. Perfect body work is great, but if its not quite perfect yet has new steel like yours does, to me new steel is more important than a few blemishes of non perfect paint.
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I was able to get the gas tank bolted to the bottom of the body, then get the body back on the frame. Its so nice to be out of the metal work/welding/body filler/painting stage. I'll most likely start with the wiring harness and work toward getting the engine running again.
Not a fan but its your 40.
You have done some good work so far.
You have done some good work so far.
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Any pictures would be appreciated. I have the part but I'm not sure what it looks like.
Thanks!@!
Great story, thanks for sharing. I was taking my daughter to lunch when she was home from college and we spotted a 40 in front of a furniture store with a for sale sign. I mentioned I've always wanted one and she encourged me to stop right then and take a look. 20 min later I was the owner. It also did not run - and I paid a lot more than $150. A few grand in parts (including sourcing a replacement head) and 100s of hours later, I smile every time I walk into the garage.
That's the way it was!! Thanks.
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Need more help. Working on getting the front disk brakes working on my 1980. I brought a new brake booster from cityracer, I have new calipers installed, and have gone through the master cylinder, cleaned it, and put it back together. Both front lines are bleed with no air. The pedal feels great with pressure, but I have no brakes. I have the front end jacked up and the pistons on the calipers don't even move a bit.
The engine doesn't run yet so I have no vacuum to the booster.
Thank you!!
The engine doesn't run yet so I have no vacuum to the booster.
Thank you!!
How did you bleed the brakes? You say that the calipers don't work at all? With pressure on the pedal crack a bleeder on each caliper and see if fluid comes squirting out. If it does come squirting out then its possible-especially being that this is a road salt are vehicle that the calipers are frozen. Do the rear brakes work?
