Glad you posted up, great build to follow along, beautiful work so far.
Builds Removing SBC conversion, going back to Toyota. 1972 Frame Off (2 Viewers)
- Thread starter Jdc1
- Start date
-
- Tags
- bf goodrich holley sniper km3
This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate
links, including eBay, Amazon, Skimlinks, and others.
- Thread starter
- #1,042
Thanks, your bolt kits make things a little easier.
rkymtnflyfisher
Trout Bum
Those aprons look pretty sweet!!!!!!
- Thread starter
- #1,045
Those are the ones you sold us a while ago.
- Thread starter
- #1,047
Thanks will have a look.
- Thread starter
- #1,049
With the 40 being at a different location, I am kind of dead in the water. Even if it were here I wouldn’t be able to get much done with the kids being home from school until at least 4/3.
I’ve spent some time acquiring the parts needed to button most of the mechanical up on the truck. The coil/ignitor is going to be on the fender but wiring wasn’t long enough. I’ll swap the FJ60 coil wire for a later 70s 40 wire (thanks @cruiseroutfit for being patient). @Coolerman made a custom extension for the ignitor to distributor plug.
I have tried a few different variations for an aux fuse block but haven’t been happy with the way mine turned out. Last night, I was searching for a harness for another build and stumbled across Painless’ version. It has switched power via relay and constant power in a pretty clean, compact package.
The newer style OEM fenders have holes to accommodate the newer style push in wire ties. This will help clean up the engine bay wiring for a stock appearance.
I’ve spent some time acquiring the parts needed to button most of the mechanical up on the truck. The coil/ignitor is going to be on the fender but wiring wasn’t long enough. I’ll swap the FJ60 coil wire for a later 70s 40 wire (thanks @cruiseroutfit for being patient). @Coolerman made a custom extension for the ignitor to distributor plug.
I have tried a few different variations for an aux fuse block but haven’t been happy with the way mine turned out. Last night, I was searching for a harness for another build and stumbled across Painless’ version. It has switched power via relay and constant power in a pretty clean, compact package.
The newer style OEM fenders have holes to accommodate the newer style push in wire ties. This will help clean up the engine bay wiring for a stock appearance.
- Thread starter
- #1,052
Ohio is a few weeks from opening up most activity. I am really looking forward to getting back on the ‘72.
Things have been pretty stressful as my wife has been working directly with the Covid patients, starting lines and managing airways. Luckily, her ICU isn’t and hasn’t been to capacity. She did spike a fever and cough but tested negative a few weeks ago.
On a positive note, our painters put a few more hours into the hardtop sides. 5 rounds of wet sanding from 800 grit to 8000.
I was also able to get the youngest out for a brief turkey hunt. We heard a bird in the distance but the smallish property limited our ability to move into a decent position. The boy is definitely hooked.
We have also used our time to start our small hobby farm up again with pastured broilers, layers, bees and 2 feeder pigs. The garden will be going in later this month.
Stay safe, Mud.
Things have been pretty stressful as my wife has been working directly with the Covid patients, starting lines and managing airways. Luckily, her ICU isn’t and hasn’t been to capacity. She did spike a fever and cough but tested negative a few weeks ago.
On a positive note, our painters put a few more hours into the hardtop sides. 5 rounds of wet sanding from 800 grit to 8000.
I was also able to get the youngest out for a brief turkey hunt. We heard a bird in the distance but the smallish property limited our ability to move into a decent position. The boy is definitely hooked.
We have also used our time to start our small hobby farm up again with pastured broilers, layers, bees and 2 feeder pigs. The garden will be going in later this month.
Stay safe, Mud.
Last edited:
- Thread starter
- #1,053
I was able to sneak out this morning and put in some work on the truck. After installing the Painless auxiliary fuse/relay block, I decided to make some small changes to the Dakota/accessory wiring harness. A few more minutes of wiring connections and some cleanup and I’ll call it done.
Also was able to sort out the rest of the weatherstripping and make an order from CityRacer for the discontinued rubber, I couldn’t resist the air cleaner decal.
Also was able to sort out the rest of the weatherstripping and make an order from CityRacer for the discontinued rubber, I couldn’t resist the air cleaner decal.
Last edited:
- Thread starter
- #1,054
This afternoon I was able to complete the auxiliary fuse block install, finish cleaning up the Dakota wiring, and install the coil/ignitor onto the fender. Not much worth taking pics but now I can move onto finishing up the Vintage Air install. I did grab a picture of the dual momentary on-off-on switch I ended up using instead of the supplied SW1 and SW2 switches that are used to control the gauges.
i installed the vintage air system last year and very pleased with it so far. Still have to hook up the AC portion but the heater and controls work great.... and they look great and fit very nicely in the ergonomics of the FJ40. I had a dash pad spacer for mine, hard to tell from pics but looks like your dashpad is a little different than my 1976.
My spacer below to show you what they gave me to fill the gap on the dashpad.
- Thread starter
- #1,060
The Engine side of the AC is done with the exception of the grommet that popped out of place.
Unless I missed it in the instructions, Vintage Air didn’t mention securing the heater valve, I’ll figure something out ASAP.
Unless I missed it in the instructions, Vintage Air didn’t mention securing the heater valve, I’ll figure something out ASAP.
