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Weather looks iffy tomorrow, no cars and coffee for me.
Builds Removing SBC conversion, going back to Toyota. 1972 Frame Off (5 Viewers)
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rkymtnflyfisher
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Dew point over 60?
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My hair might get frizzy.
rkymtnflyfisher
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That's like the highs here recently! In fact it snowed up until about noon today.
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I don’t mind the cold. Rain and cooler sucks. Plus the 40 is detailed. Next build is going to be ready to take sweet jumps and get dirty from day 1.
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That is one clean rig!
Beautiful job!
Beautiful job!
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Thanks Ryan. Pretty surreal to see it near 100%.
Almost 140 trouble free miles on it since we had to put it on the trailer for the first shakedown. Had a little bit of air in the PS system last week and swapped the alternator. I threw my back out and my dad took a spill playing basketball with the youngest so it’s been parked for a few days.
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I'd be happy to road test it for the summer, I'll check to see how it handles on gravel covered washboard roads, plow it through the brush and downed trees that like to pinstripe paint jobs, and maybe bury it in the bar ditch along some remote road that follows some unknown trout filled river, all the while crunching empty beer cans on the front floorboard.
Oh, never mind, I can wreck up my 40, @cruiserdan can take care of your work of art!
We could take it fishing to one of your top secret honey holes
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During HS and College, I sold boats for a few local dealerships. Working the large boat shows was an exercise in trying to sort the lookers from the buyers and trying not to get stuck with the BSers but I got pretty good at reading the crowds.
Yesterday, as I was watching the crowd that was around the ‘72, I noticed an older gentleman stick out from the others, make a couple passes and point out some of the smaller details to another guy whom I assumed was a SIL.
I asked him if he had any questions and he told me that he was a Dr. in the Peace Corp during the 1960s. He was stationed in Bolivia, had a ‘66 FJ40 and spent his time traveling between 3-10k feet of elevation on the Death Road. He remembers his elevation knob on the carb(?) and how close to the edge he had to get as he descended past the fruit trucks. I didn’t catch his name but he told me that he ended up buying another ‘66 and driving from Bolivia to Columbia and taking an 18hr cruise on a freighter to Panama around the Darien Gap. From there he finished the trip to Cleveland.
It seems like there are a lot of great stories
surrounding these old rigs fro people across all walks of life.
Yesterday, as I was watching the crowd that was around the ‘72, I noticed an older gentleman stick out from the others, make a couple passes and point out some of the smaller details to another guy whom I assumed was a SIL.
I asked him if he had any questions and he told me that he was a Dr. in the Peace Corp during the 1960s. He was stationed in Bolivia, had a ‘66 FJ40 and spent his time traveling between 3-10k feet of elevation on the Death Road. He remembers his elevation knob on the carb(?) and how close to the edge he had to get as he descended past the fruit trucks. I didn’t catch his name but he told me that he ended up buying another ‘66 and driving from Bolivia to Columbia and taking an 18hr cruise on a freighter to Panama around the Darien Gap. From there he finished the trip to Cleveland.
It seems like there are a lot of great stories
surrounding these old rigs fro people across all walks of life.
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He was probably referring to the adjuster on the early distributor.
Where did you get your exhaust hangers from? Those are nice.
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Thanks, nothing special. Amazon and Summit and a little bit of customization to fit the truck.
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Ive seen the distributor with the knob but never a carb.
