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March 2021

An old college friend calls me and tells me he has an FJ40 that he needs to sell. Lives in Houston. Got a divorce. The thing sits in his 2 car garage.

He’s the second owner. Texas truck. It has some rust but it’s patina rust. Truck is one color which is all that I care about.

Looks like it got the Proffitt Cruiser treatment way back when. Bucket seats, power steering and a very well burned in shackle reversal.

I drove over and scooped it up …..

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I got it home. Drive it down the road and back and my buddy Mike called me out of the blue and told me he had a guy he was building a 4Runner for that wanted a 40.

Son of a gun…..I had a 40.

Chad and I made a deal. I had a bunch of great take off parts in house from a project I worked onto the truck and by Easter I had it in Tupelo Mississippi

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He gets the truck. Realizes it’s a turd with the old non-rebuilt Aisin and wanted to install a Sniper.

I was covered up with projects at the time so i referred him to my buddy Justin @nvrlose54

Justin did a bang up Sniper install and sent the truck home

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Fast forward a year and Chad starts chattering on text about how much the 3 speed sucks.

I tell him, well, yes. Only @landcrusher909 likes 3 speeds.

I guess about august he had had enough and I sent a 4 speed and single case out to @orangefj45 for a good once-over.

I got it back in September and I put him on the books for the swap

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After a month of dripping 90wt here at Tilda Bogue time came to dig into this one. Cowboy helped. We got a lot done.

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Fast forward a year and Chad starts chattering on text about how much the 3 speed sucks.

I tell him, well, yes. Only @landcrusher909 likes 3 speeds.

I guess about august he had had enough and I sent a 4 speed and single case out to @orangefj45 for a good once-over.

I got it back in September and I put him on the books for the swap

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Send them all to California LOL
 
I looked at this thing every way I could to keep from having to remove the seats, stereo, and hump but I just could not figure out a way so the tank got drained and I collected .47 and no empty rifle casings and yanked the transmission hump.
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Some maniac put the stereo lines through it. What the everloving hell.
The goal is set though. Moving forward.

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Ew.
 

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