Operation Olive, My 1975 FJ40 Ground Up Restoration

[subzali]

1976 was the first year for fine spline birfields. The birfield length was kept the same as 1975 and older birfields IIRC.

 

[broth9640]

Crap. I just popped off the hub to find course spline.

 

[broth9640]

So now the parts search continues for the disk brake swap. I only have one fine spline birf that came with the parts I bought from the rising sun swap meet. I was hoping I had fine spline already on my truck since I missed the disk brakes by one month in production. Looks like a trip to yoda jim's tomorrow. Now I just need to figure out if this is a short or a longer birfield.

 

[broth9640]

 

[subzali]

Long birf by my estimation and measurement of my spare for my 77

 

[1973Guppie]

sub'd, nice work!........

 

[subzali]

Jim's might not have it, call first. Classic cruisers in salida may though and their shipping is fast to Denver.

 

[broth9640]

Thank for the help Subzali! Yeah I struck out at jim's last week trying to buy some Aisin hubs. Apparently he won't take anything off of 60 or mini truck axles. Only sells them complete for 500 bucks.

 

[DanS HJ-45]

If that's a long, then you also need long hubs.

Cheaper to get two short birfs to match your hubs.

Dan

 

[Odienhanks]

Beautiful work!

 

[subzali]

Colorado Auto and Salvage gets 60s and other Toyota trucks from time to time. Don't know if anybody from Rising Sun has been there recently.

 

[broth9640]

I ended up grabbing 2 shorter birfs from Jim's. $25 each. Here is a snapshot of the two lengths in case anyone wants it for reference.

This is the longer one on the bottom.

and yes I was in the garage in my socks!

 

[broth9640]

The shorter one, just shy of 9.5"

 

[broth9640]

I spent the last two days chasing down parts and cleaning parts. Mostly cleaning and cleaning and more cleaning followed by blasting and powder coating. I managed to get the knuckles stripped down and powder coated. Followed by lots of wire wheeling hardware.

 

[broth9640]

 

[broth9640]

 

[subzali]

I'll pay you that much for your long one.

 

[broth9640]

Subzali,
You can have it for free if you help me untangle my de smog. Dan S. Said you might know a thing or two about it. It runs great as is, but there seems to be extra stuff still there that isn't serving a purpose. I just want to clean it up, but don't want to remove something important.

 

[DanS HJ-45]

It runs great as is,

Wait: did you just let something slip?



I haven't read that on this thread yet.

Dan

 

[broth9640]

^^,

Yes let's not forget how Dan fixed my wiring issue and now she is up and running!