Previous Owner Repairs

[west aussie]

whare i live all these old toyotas spent much of their latter life on stations unregistered for the road. i have known landcruisers that were never registered from new.

anyhow i know this non toyota but i couldnt resist. the concrete (literally concrete) radiator repair. that hole was just too large for the traditional pepper cure (though probably used in conjunction with it)

 

[JohnnyC]

I must be turning into a PO ...the steel pipe idea is sounding like a good thing since i just had to fix a rusted off tailpipe on my rig that i just replced with new 2 years ago

 

[My wife said no FJ!]

I must be turning into a PO ...the steel pipe idea is sounding like a good thing since i just had to fix a rusted off tailpipe on my rig that i just replced with new 2 years ago

Is that the one with the new SS muffler?

 

[JohnnyC]

Is that the one with the new SS muffler?

yes...muffler is great ...it was primerially my fault ...as i had to but the tailpipe to the muffler and used a pipe around the two...

i got a connector now that goes over the muffler and into the tailpipe...should be good now

 

[My wife said no FJ!]

yes...muffler is great ...it was primerially my fault ...as i had to but the tailpipe to the muffler and used a pipe around the two...

i got a connector now that goes over the muffler and into the tailpipe...should be good now

Too bad you never found someone to bring these guys a reg pipe that they could have copied, and done in SS for the rest of the guys looking for a stock set up for their 40s, but in SS, from the manifold right to the exhaust tip.

 

[Living in the Past]

Too bad you never found someone to bring these guys a reg pipe that they could have copied, and done in SS for the rest of the guys looking for a stock set up for their 40s, but in SS, from the manifold right to the exhaust tip.

What's the big deal with SS Does this have something to do with this rust thing your keep talking about? I guess I should google "RUST" so I can see what you guys are talking about

 

[wesintl]

Dean, how can you be a self admitted purist and use SS exhaust? I don't remember that coming from Japan.

I guess i've had my 40's long enough to be my own PO. What the hell was I thinking sometimes

 

[My wife said no FJ!]

Dean, how can you be a self admitted purist and use SS exhaust? I don't remember that coming from Japan.

I guess i've had my 40's long enough to be my own PO. What the hell was I thinking sometimes

LOL...I did say "for the rest of the guys looking for a stock set up for their 40s, but in SS" ...not for me...well...at least not until I start using one as a DD.

The only SS I will use on my '64, will be the SS brake lines Dusty66 outlined in his 9mm review thread...I can accept that little change

 

[wesintl]

whew.. faith is restored

 

[subzali]

...I guess i've had my 40's long enough to be my own PO. What the hell was I thinking sometimes

Wes, I've thought the same thing at times.

 

[Living in the Past]

I guess i've had my 40's long enough to be my own PO. What the hell was I thinking sometimes

The big question is if your your own PO how do you feel your doing? Do you feel you need to leave mud before you would sell it so no one would know PO repairs were done by you? I serious doubt.

First owner of my 68 had it six years. I've had it thirty-seven years and it's in better shape now then when I bought it.

Anyone who welded on forty pounds of trailer hitch and then taped into the single circuit brake lines to operate the brakes on the trailer isn't thinking very clearly.

I wouldn't mind someone looking it over and giving me a honest opinion of repair/mods. Problem is finding another FJ40 owner of ten years or more who is local.

 

[JohnnyC]

note to self....

fix all bad temporary repairs before selling truck

 

[My wife said no FJ!]

note to self....

fix all bad temporary repairs before selling truck

...or before posting pics...that might find their way into this thread one day

...and by that I mean pics of my rig

 

[Living in the Past]

Not really embarrassed about any repairs I'm made more embarrassed about the junk yard I've created so I have the parts I need to do a proper repair

 

[cjgoode]

I hope I keep my rigs till I am too old to care what others think. I hope that will be several hundred years from now (Counting on some big medical break throughs)!! So if my backyard repairs hold up that long I figure no one can complain.

 

[JohnnyC]

I'm hoping my truck makes it to see the gas run dry so i can hook up a BioRice Generator Cell Pack...so when people call it a rice burner...they'd be right

 

[Living in the Past]

I'm hoping my truck makes it to see the gas run dry so i can hook up a BioRice Generator Cell Pack...so when people call it a rice burner...they'd be right

Why wait until the gas runs out do it now

 

[west aussie]

i have some information on building a gas producer that uses firewood. charcoal powered gas producers were very prevalent in australia during ww2 when severe petrol rationing was implimented. the firewood powered model appeals to me because the messy work associated with making storing and transporting charcoal is eliminated. was this the case in the usa; petrol rations and alternative fuels during the war?

incidentaly i have been told that vehicles here recieved a greater petrol ration if they were a `commercial` vehicle. for this reason many of the old tourer cars of the 1920s were cut down into buckboard style vehicles to gain the commercial status.

 

[Living in the Past]

i have some information on building a gas producer that uses firewood. charcoal powered gas producers were very prevalent in australia during ww2 when severe petrol rationing was implimented. the firewood powered model appeals to me because the messy work associated with making storing and transporting charcoal is eliminated. was this the case in the usa; petrol rations and alternative fuels during the war?

incidentaly i have been told that vehicles here recieved a greater petrol ration if they were a `commercial` vehicle. for this reason many of the old tourer cars of the 1920s were cut down into buckboard style vehicles to gain the commercial status.

Wasn't around in WWII but I have a feeling here corn ethanol was probably use in place of petrol. What they weren't pouring in the tank they were drinking I will say my dad was stationed in Texas during part of the war, he and mom were able to get enought gas rationing cards to drive to Wisconsin and back so I doubt it was as bad here. Does Australia have much in the way of oil wells? US use too produce most their own oil/gas back then

 

[cjgoode]

I saw a show on the fire wood fuel. Very cool, ran a normal gas engine off the fumes coming from super heated wood just before it burns and just pumping those fumes cooled and condensed down the carb. They were doing burn outs and dohnuts it was really cool. They were running it off mulch basically. And they made it out of stuff you can get from the hardware store.

Down side is you need about 30 minutes to start your car.