Alright gents, I've been a member of this forum for over 10 years, years back I had a BJ74. Now I have a 92 HDJ81 and I may put up a thread about that later, but this one is about my new baby - a 1987 FJ75 Ex-ambulance Troopy from Iran - that's all I know. It was imported years ago, original 3F and auto, got a 3B and H55F swap, and has been sitting for at least 8 years. I know this because I've driven past it every day for 8 years, finally scooped it up and tore into it. It needs some serious work, so stay tuned.
I haven't posted on here for years, so i'm hoping to get this all correct.
So here it is. She ugly, she smokey, but she's mine.
Today we replace the clutch master and slave cylinder, so now the clutch works. Bites good. Very responsive. Before the pedal hit the floor and you had to pump it two or three times to engage/disengage. Swapped out the slave, still no good. Swapped out the master, fixed!
We also replaced the brake master and the front two calipers - check out the one rotor, it looks like the wheel fell off and it was grinded down. The left caliper was seized. Brakes are still super mushy, so i'm thinking theres still air in the lines - will try again tomorrow, had to go out and trick or treat. Also have new rotors and pads, but won't be doing them until I blow the front axle apart and rebuild that - soon!
Also, tires are dated 2006 and garbage. Came with the 15x5 stock rims - as seen on rear left pic, but theres 15x7 aluminum rims on - super light!. Seems it came with 2 styles of lugnuts, both of which are incorrect and the PO just ugga-dugga'd them in. Almost all of them were siezed, luckily I didn't break any studs. Had to grind down a spark plug socket to get the sidewall thin enough. Hoping I can scoop up some of the flat lugnuts and the rims still usable. Did I mention how lightweight the rims are?!?!
Stay tuned for more updates. This will be a long project.
I haven't posted on here for years, so i'm hoping to get this all correct.
So here it is. She ugly, she smokey, but she's mine.
Today we replace the clutch master and slave cylinder, so now the clutch works. Bites good. Very responsive. Before the pedal hit the floor and you had to pump it two or three times to engage/disengage. Swapped out the slave, still no good. Swapped out the master, fixed!
We also replaced the brake master and the front two calipers - check out the one rotor, it looks like the wheel fell off and it was grinded down. The left caliper was seized. Brakes are still super mushy, so i'm thinking theres still air in the lines - will try again tomorrow, had to go out and trick or treat. Also have new rotors and pads, but won't be doing them until I blow the front axle apart and rebuild that - soon!
Also, tires are dated 2006 and garbage. Came with the 15x5 stock rims - as seen on rear left pic, but theres 15x7 aluminum rims on - super light!. Seems it came with 2 styles of lugnuts, both of which are incorrect and the PO just ugga-dugga'd them in. Almost all of them were siezed, luckily I didn't break any studs. Had to grind down a spark plug socket to get the sidewall thin enough. Hoping I can scoop up some of the flat lugnuts and the rims still usable. Did I mention how lightweight the rims are?!?!
Stay tuned for more updates. This will be a long project.
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