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The lower mount bolts were located deep in the frame and we spend 15 minutes per side chipping enough rust away to reach in and grab it with a wrench.
Project Ugly Duckling: 4WD Toyota Owner Magazine's 1970 FJ40 build/3B swap
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If you're looking to get rid of the old hood, Dave, I'll take it off your hands. I have a couple of others that are banged-up and perhaps I can piece a decent one together.
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Out with the old and on with the new. Once the old PTO set-up was off, the new 4Plus front bumper slipped right in place. Probably the easiest front bumper install we’ve done in a long time. This unit is a beauty, and is designed to hold a planetary winch. Have an 8274? 4PlusProducts has bumpers to fit those, too. www.4plusproducts.com
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You're totally welcome to it! I'll PM you Tim's contact info.
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Next up was to install the Superwinch Talon 9.5 winch (www.superwinch.com).
Viewed from a side profile, the 4Plus Products front bumper eats up no approach angle over a stock FJ40 bumper and is a heckuva lot stronger than the thin OE bumper too. That, and it holds a winch, and two recovery points built in. Awesome bumper from www.4plusproducts.com!
Viewed from a side profile, the 4Plus Products front bumper eats up no approach angle over a stock FJ40 bumper and is a heckuva lot stronger than the thin OE bumper too. That, and it holds a winch, and two recovery points built in. Awesome bumper from www.4plusproducts.com!
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Front view with Superwinch Talon installed.
Interesting where the build is taking place.... you've now mentioned 2 local companies 'round these areas. You mentioned Metal tech held the truck, hope to see some of their products make it onto the truck as they're a great company.
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You are missing the triangular pieces that sit on top of the front frame horns. If you had those you could attach another bolt where the holes are next to your winch mount vertical plate.
Gusset - Bumper - FJ40
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Metal Tech is great. We put their bumper on another FJ40 project, a 1976 we built. Here are some pics. I'll try and post that up later too.
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Awesome. Thanks for pointing that out! I'll call Cool Cruisers for a set. Cheers,--Dave
ginmtb
'74 FJ40 - my first!
FYI - those hold downs won't work with the earlier models (pre-75). They don't rotate far enough back. Checkout this thread for more info:
Windshield Hooks - 1974 FJ40
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Hmm, ours worked fine....maybe I misquoted the part #...? I'll check.
ginmtb
'74 FJ40 - my first!
They bolt on correctly but they need to go further down to hold the windshield in place. Here is the shot I posted in the thread I referenced. It needs to swivel further down.
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Interesting! Ours seem to be good, maybe they corrected the design...will check it out!
Just a few more hours of work to go. Love the choice of the 3B mated to a 55, I have the same set up and love it. Looking forward to watching this project. Cheers!
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Seats time! Maybe they were in good condition when you first got your ride and now many years and miles later they are broken down and uncomfortable. Or, maybe like our Project Ugly Duckling FJ40, the seats were so torn up when we got it, that there was nothing more to do other than do a full rebuild and recover or just replace them with something new. As this is not a full-blown resto job, we chose the latter of the two.
Procar has an excellent lineup of seats that satisfy almost all budget and design needs, from top dollar suspension seats to basic utilitarian seats. We’ve seen the SCAT Procar Rally DLX recliner seats (www.procarbyscat.com, around $397 each street price, $440 with adapter brackets) around in other rigs and the owners seemed real happy with them, so we figured we’d give them a try in our project and see how they handle weekend trail warrior duties along with the associated road miles to get back and forth to the trails. To mount them up in our 40 series we turned to Overland Werks (www.overlandwerks.com), for their $195 FJ40 seat frame kit designed as a weld-it-yourself kit. We figured this would be a great opportunity to get some time behind the new Millermatic 211 MIG welder we recently picked up.
The original seats in project UD40 were quite literally destroyed by age, vermin, Uncle Nestor’s bum and who knows what else. We really didn’t have any other option than to replace the seats and the mounting system; there really was no comparison to the new Procar Rally DLX seats. The Procar Rally DLX seats are 10” wide in the seat area, are a multi-position recliner design, and come bare (no covering), or vinyl or velour.
Procar has an excellent lineup of seats that satisfy almost all budget and design needs, from top dollar suspension seats to basic utilitarian seats. We’ve seen the SCAT Procar Rally DLX recliner seats (www.procarbyscat.com, around $397 each street price, $440 with adapter brackets) around in other rigs and the owners seemed real happy with them, so we figured we’d give them a try in our project and see how they handle weekend trail warrior duties along with the associated road miles to get back and forth to the trails. To mount them up in our 40 series we turned to Overland Werks (www.overlandwerks.com), for their $195 FJ40 seat frame kit designed as a weld-it-yourself kit. We figured this would be a great opportunity to get some time behind the new Millermatic 211 MIG welder we recently picked up.
The original seats in project UD40 were quite literally destroyed by age, vermin, Uncle Nestor’s bum and who knows what else. We really didn’t have any other option than to replace the seats and the mounting system; there really was no comparison to the new Procar Rally DLX seats. The Procar Rally DLX seats are 10” wide in the seat area, are a multi-position recliner design, and come bare (no covering), or vinyl or velour.
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Before we installed the seats, we needed something to mount them to, so we unpacked the Overland Werks seat frame kit and laid it out on the floor to get a good look at what we have to work with and make sure we understand how the pieces go together. They are designed for use on ’68-78 FJ40s and come unassembled and unpainted. OverlandWerks also has an extended range tank seat mount frame available.
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After locating where the seat frame was going to sit, we hit the area with a sanding wheel to take off the rusty scale and bird-poop welds left over from the old cobbled-in seat mounts so we would have a nice clean surface to work from. Our editor has forgotten to wear his gloves—always use hand protection when using power tools!
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We used a couple of ratchet straps to hold the seat frame together while we leveled it out and tacked it together; it only took a little trimming and adjusting to get the seat frame sitting just right in our tub.
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When we ordered up the SCAT Procar seats, we made sure to order two sets of their sliders too. Sure, you can hard mount your seats, but being a trail rig/fun day driver, we wanted the forward/backwards adjustability that the Procar sliders offered. The frame of the Procar seats is TIG welded steel.
