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You mean he did the flanges where the bolt heads press? Damn lucky you found someone willing to do that part!
Builds Resurrecting a mothballed '86 FJ60
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NeverGiveUpYota
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The area I circled is just a shadow right? It appears like a change in flatness.
Be sure to take a round file to the holes because they’ll now be ovaled from being planed.
Be sure to take a round file to the holes because they’ll now be ovaled from being planed.
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Yep, just a shadow.
I asked him to spot-face the bolt holes, but he didnt have a tool that could get down in there to do it.
My concern is on the horns, if you look in the pics at the top you can see where they hit the sander as well and got flattened.
I asked him to spot-face the bolt holes, but he didnt have a tool that could get down in there to do it.
My concern is on the horns, if you look in the pics at the top you can see where they hit the sander as well and got flattened.
NeverGiveUpYota
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I zoomed in but I’m not seeing what your seeing. The horns ought to have been planed too. Many will say they should be tack welded THEN planed. The guy I’d gone to hadn’t, I didn’t know that detail then. I had a machinist friend take it later to his work and check it on a true stone and found the intake ends were cupped. He planed it for me at his work by simply flipping it over and using its own weight to take it down. It’s not perfect but far better.
Is that what your concerned with?
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This in yellow?
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I see what youre talking about, on the coupling area of the exhaust manifold. Mine are ground there and no problems so far.
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Yep, the yellow circle.
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Yeah I agree w/ @CuCruiser. that’s the outer surface. Nothing to stress about. The machinist definetly has to grind deep tho if he took material that far off. There are two raised areas that are meant to get hit before the body of the horns. There’s also two circular areas too that I believe were were it was attached to the mold when it was poured, those tend to get ground down too (I’m not seeing them now but there somewhere).
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Had a few moments this weekend and finally got back to this.
Cleaned up the engine a bit and started bolting things back on:
Just need to go back through all my vacuum lines and I should be good to give it another try.
Cleaned up the engine a bit and started bolting things back on:
Just need to go back through all my vacuum lines and I should be good to give it another try.
Remind your (lucky) kid that an FJ60 is about 100000X cooler in the high school parking lot than a Ram.
4Cruisers
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Yep, both of my sons had a shot at driving our '84 FJ60 to high school, glad they had the chance. Of course I don't think it was as cool back then, when there were more of them around.
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Completed my DIY smoker and put it into play today.
No leaks, but it's still running poorly. The only things left I can think of are the dizzy (doesnt seem to hold timing very well) and/or I botched the carb rebuild somehow.
No leaks, but it's still running poorly. The only things left I can think of are the dizzy (doesnt seem to hold timing very well) and/or I botched the carb rebuild somehow.
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Finally had a breakthrough! I put a professionally rebuilt carb on the truck and got this:
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It did take a minute to get running well, I attribute that to the truck not having run in a LONG time, and the carb being a fresh rebuild, so the gaskets and seals needed to soak up fuel and swell a bit.
However, once warmed up it ran AWESOME. Super smooth, it idled well and ran through the RPM range smoothly and then settled back down to a healthy idle again.
However, once warmed up it ran AWESOME. Super smooth, it idled well and ran through the RPM range smoothly and then settled back down to a healthy idle again.
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I did pull the choke on it after it warmed up and had the following reaction:
Not sure what would cause that? Unless someone immediately knows something about it, I am just going to drive it for now and see if that works itself out.
Not sure what would cause that? Unless someone immediately knows something about it, I am just going to drive it for now and see if that works itself out.
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I have to take a moment and give a huge thanks to Marc @mwebfj60 for allowing me to borrow one of his carbs. He even went so far as to put one together and ship it out to me so I could try my truck with a good one and see if that fixed it.
I can absolutely back his stuff up, the carb works awesome and solved my issue. HE went way above and beyond in his efforts to help me out and I cant thank him enough. Great guy, great carb!
I can absolutely back his stuff up, the carb works awesome and solved my issue. HE went way above and beyond in his efforts to help me out and I cant thank him enough. Great guy, great carb!
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Very nice. Thank You.
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I got a message from Marc that its either a bad bvsv or I need to make some adjustments. Either way, it drives great and I've been grinning all day.
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