Not too many of these elsewhere ..

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The boys around here still have a few. cheers. 47 &45s:beer: :beer:
 
I cant help bending my neck every time I see a 45 cab chassis going down the road.
I also liked these 45 with locally built bodies. Some dont like the asthetics but the longevity and usefullness stands out.
You could buy off the shelf doors for the left and right sides.
The body at the rear was the same width as the widest part of the fender which give them another inch or 2 on each side.
They were easier to repair and were rust resistant compared to the Toyota troopy.
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roscoFJ73 said:
I cant help bending my neck every time I see a 45 cab chassis going down the road.
I also liked these 45 with locally built bodies. Some dont like the asthetics but the longevity and usefullness stands out.
You could buy off the shelf doors for the left and right sides.
The body at the rear was the same width as the widest part of the fender which give them another inch or 2 on each side.
They were easier to repair and were rust resistant compared to the Toyota troopy.
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very nice... you should put on a new paint scheme, some satelittle dishes out and make it look like a space exploration vehicle. :lol::idea:
 
A paint job is on the cards, once I've replaced a couple of panels at the front (the crap you can't see:-). New deck is also required ... new wheels, split rims are fine except the rust on the rims keeps putting holes in the tubes and that's $45 NZD each time ... the price of keeping it stock I s'pose
 
To and fro the office daily, sometimes in a suit :-)
It's surprising how much room I get given on the motorway:-)
I've had it 16 years now and lugged hay, timber, pulled stumps, towed horse floats through forests, carried 1.5 tonnes of sand. The only thing I've managed to break was a brakeline when being over-ambitious with climbing over a log (see horse float thru forest above :-)
Doesn't owe me a penny and still running her in at 210K.
 
I'm actually waiting for someone to tail-end me :-) I could do with new lights at the back.
 
Henry ,that is a cool 47,kinda looks likes the ones we get in oz;)

Why dont you lift that bit behind the cab so you can put timber etc over the cab?
 
roscoFJ73 said:
I cant help bending my neck every time I see a 45 cab chassis going down the road.
I also liked these 45 with locally built bodies. Some dont like the asthetics but the longevity and usefullness stands out.
You could buy off the shelf doors for the left and right sides.
The body at the rear was the same width as the widest part of the fender which give them another inch or 2 on each side.
They were easier to repair and were rust resistant compared to the Toyota troopy.
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I really dig that bottom one, the rear ww openings have too sharp of corners in them. Other than that it's about the coolest non-stock 40 series I've seen.
 
roscoFJ73 said:
Henry ,that is a cool 47,kinda looks likes the ones we get in oz;)

Why dont you lift that bit behind the cab so you can put timber etc over the cab?
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That's no surprise, 'cause I imported it from Oz about 3 months ago. I have it completely apart at the moment and am getting pretty close to welding a new firewall in. I am planning to make the rear tray work for carrying timber, since working wth timbers is what I do for a living. When the truck arrived and I pulled it out of the container, the rear rack was missing (along with other stuff I thought I had purchased in the deal), and the tray was held in place with only two bolts and a couple of tack welds. At least it was easy to remove. I'll need to fab up a rear rack, and beef up the tray, since the single wall alu construction is not going to hold up for me. I'm also thinking of deacking it in a hardwod that can take a beating.

I am also removing the air cleaner from the fender and putting it back inside the engine bay. PO had put it outside the engine bay after fitting in a crudely cobbled-together power steeering pump set up, which I am replacing with a factory set up (apparently very rare with original 47 series trucks in OZ from what I understand).

Thanks for the compliment on the truck - I like it too!!
 
Henry James the 47th said:
That's no surprise, 'cause I imported it from Oz about 3 months ago. I have it completely apart at the moment and am getting pretty close to welding a new firewall in. I am planning to make the rear tray work for carrying timber, since working wth timbers is what I do for a living. When the truck arrived and I pulled it out of the container, the rear rack was missing (along with other stuff I thought I had purchased in the deal), and the tray was held in place with only two bolts and a couple of tack welds. At least it was easy to remove. I'll need to fab up a rear rack, and beef up the tray, since the single wall alu construction is not going to hold up for me. I'm also thinking of deacking it in a hardwod that can take a beating.

I am also removing the air cleaner from the fender and putting it back inside the engine bay. PO had put it outside the engine bay after fitting in a crudely cobbled-together power steeering pump set up, which I am replacing with a factory set up (apparently very rare with original 47 series trucks in OZ from what I understand).

Thanks for the compliment on the truck - I like it too!!
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I guessed it was from oz by the tray design. We put them on everything from F350 down to Dataun 1200.
It really sucks when owners pull that crap.

Some old conveyor belt rubber cut to fit protects those aluminium trays and its easy to remove when you dont want the weight in there.

Those old air filters on the fender were all we had before snorkles and such came along but they still work well. Im sure someone will take it off your hands.
A lot of them were made by Donaldsons.

Where does the factory power steering pump go on one of those?
 
bigbrowndog said:
This is the power steering set up on my mates FJ47 ute, looks similar to the setup on a 3F also. In these parts the Donaldson type cleaners were mostly set up outside to get cooler air rather than suck hot air inside the engine bay.:cheers:
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Thanks for that pic but dont some of them also have the pump down the rear RH side of the block ,maybe like a 12HT?
 
Only the 3B has the pump up high on the right side of the block in the factory install. The 2H and 12H-T put the pump on the lower right corner of the block, and early 2H mounting is slightly different than late 2H /12H-T, so they are not perfectly interchangeable. Here are some pics of the factory set ups, courtesy of private parts 4x4. First is 3B, then early 2H, and then late 2H/12H-T. One of the other differences between early and late 2H pumps is the direction that the hoses exit.
 
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