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Added 4Plus sliders, and besttop soft upper doors. I dropped the rig off at the fabricators for a family style cage. Should be picking the truck back up this Friday
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Progress photos from rollbar fabircation
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Just got it home and tucked away. I'll going to the powder coaters soon. It was awesome to head home at sunset on the freeway with no top.
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Made a return trip to the fabricator's today to re-do the seatbelt retractor brackets. In the end, we decided to ditch the 90* bracket that was on there and just add a new collar/bung to the rollbar itself. The issue I was having was that the seatbelt didn't have enough play in it and was choking me. Moving the retractor up and mounting it to the bar fixed everything.
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A huge complaint I have had about the FJ40 is how twitchy the steering is, especially on the freeway. I purcharsed a 4bolt, 4.25 turn steering box off of a firebird and started swapping it in. I was hoping this would be a simple swap, but so far everything has been fighting me. So far, I have the old box out, but am unable to get the pitman arm off. Tried a puller, heat, picklefork, and nothing. Looking to see if I can buy a 3in drop arm now.
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I put the old box in a vise and let the pitman soak in Kroil for about 6 hrs. I used a screw type puller to get it under as much tension as I could and then hit the exposed end of the pitman arm with a baby sledge hammer. Came right off. Now I can re-use a pitman arm that I know works and has the right drop and TRE taper.
jim land
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More info about the firebird box , is it from late 70's ?
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From the eBay listing:
1964-76 GM Standard Duty Saginaw Steering Box #5691676 4.25 turns (67A)
It's a 4bolt box vs. the three bolt I had. Line ports are the same but the firebird box had a different input shaft spline count (.800 diameter). So I had to get a new coupler from Borgeson. Reusing my 3" drop pitman arm as my linkage bars were near parallel.
