Dingle balls!
Builds “The Dude”: New Owner w/ Basket Case FJ60 (1 Viewer)
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Nice engine, bro.
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Darkness fell over The Dude… darker than a black steer’s tookus on a moonless prairie night.
New power plant is ready to slap together once my head gasket and rear main come. Head is back from the machine shop, took 15 thou to clean it up and gave it a valve job. Fresh Hastings rings installed into perfectly dingleballed holes. Cylinders look washed out in the pic because of the lube, but I assure you the crosshatching is
New power plant is ready to slap together once my head gasket and rear main come. Head is back from the machine shop, took 15 thou to clean it up and gave it a valve job. Fresh Hastings rings installed into perfectly dingleballed holes. Cylinders look washed out in the pic because of the lube, but I assure you the crosshatching is
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Spot (one of) the problems with the Dude!
I suspect Grace has the same issue. I have a twitch on the vacuum gauge. I'm not ready to pull the head yet and he still runs nice. I do get a puff of blue smoke when shifting. The problem is the machine shop is over a hundred miles away and my secondary vehicle isn't up to snuff.
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The dude ran like ass and had a massive misfire! Yours is probably fine (for now) if she runs fine haha
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The Dude Abides
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Guess who’s the daily again 
Yay!!Guess who’s the daily again
I never lost doubt, just my mind.
77CruiserDog
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Glad the universe is back in balance... El Duderino keeps throwin strikes!
You didn't even mention that the new motor is the original motor! You're numbers matching now.....
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Made some commemorative slaps for the dude
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The roof rack?? Don’t be siiiilly. Hole in roof, canvas top and machine gun ring or don’t even bother.Does this mean you are gonna mount a M60 to your roof rack? That would be freaking awesome
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Haven’t thought much about updating this thread, but I’ll humor the folks of mud with a post-Jambo #TheDudeFJ60 update-
The Dude is pretty squared away at this point. I basically just want/need some taller pizza cutter tires (on 70 series steelies?), and at that point the next thing I do is throw a 5.3 and ranger torque splitter in. That’ll be after this 2F dies of “natural” causes.
Before Jambo I threw ARB air lockers in the front and rear axles, and did the dude’s first full knuckle rebuild. I’ve done wheel bearings and a marlin eco seal on one side (side with the OEM seal leaked so bad this time there was gear oil in the locking hub). Took both sides down to nothing this time and did it all. Still need to plumb the air line to the diffs.
Mounted the air locker compressor and winch control under the hood. Still need to heat shield it and connect the winch controller. I’ll do that last minute before a trip. Also went all overlandy with a drawer based sleeping platform (very handy).
Gave the dude a little bit of a tune up before the 600 mile round trip for Jambo and am very pleased with the performance. Idled up anything at 650 or so RPM, still plenty of power with AC on and ate highway miles no problem.
The first casualty at Jambo was my exhaust, which is expected (happens every year), but the second was when my grille fell off! I had bounced into a wall and knocked the corner bezel free enough to let the grille flop off. It fell off somewhere at night, and was never seen again... Until I had them announce that it was missing at dinner on Saturday night, then headed home (because of casualty #2- you’ll see). Half way home my buddy Vince texted me that someone found my grille and he had it in hand! Met him in Houston to receive the goods Sunday.
Casualty #2 was my rear window! The cooler was strapped down, and the platform had 100s of #s of gear in it- but it was no match for the dude sending it up trails all day. It eventually wiggled back far enough to pop my hatch, and I didn’t notice it flopping up and down. On a trail back to camp, the window finally gave out. Heavy rain was in the forecast that night, so I threw a Dobinson box over it and went home. Got home at 2:30am and threw a spare window in the next day. I had been meaning to reorganize and apply new stickers, so I guess this was a good opportunity?
Anyways, there’s your semiannual #TheDudeFJ60 update. Should be able to go a few years without touching anything but regular maintenance items at this point. Will update before next Ouray trip in June
The Dude is pretty squared away at this point. I basically just want/need some taller pizza cutter tires (on 70 series steelies?), and at that point the next thing I do is throw a 5.3 and ranger torque splitter in. That’ll be after this 2F dies of “natural” causes.
Before Jambo I threw ARB air lockers in the front and rear axles, and did the dude’s first full knuckle rebuild. I’ve done wheel bearings and a marlin eco seal on one side (side with the OEM seal leaked so bad this time there was gear oil in the locking hub). Took both sides down to nothing this time and did it all. Still need to plumb the air line to the diffs.
Mounted the air locker compressor and winch control under the hood. Still need to heat shield it and connect the winch controller. I’ll do that last minute before a trip. Also went all overlandy with a drawer based sleeping platform (very handy).
Gave the dude a little bit of a tune up before the 600 mile round trip for Jambo and am very pleased with the performance. Idled up anything at 650 or so RPM, still plenty of power with AC on and ate highway miles no problem.
The first casualty at Jambo was my exhaust, which is expected (happens every year), but the second was when my grille fell off! I had bounced into a wall and knocked the corner bezel free enough to let the grille flop off. It fell off somewhere at night, and was never seen again... Until I had them announce that it was missing at dinner on Saturday night, then headed home (because of casualty #2- you’ll see). Half way home my buddy Vince texted me that someone found my grille and he had it in hand! Met him in Houston to receive the goods Sunday.
Casualty #2 was my rear window! The cooler was strapped down, and the platform had 100s of #s of gear in it- but it was no match for the dude sending it up trails all day. It eventually wiggled back far enough to pop my hatch, and I didn’t notice it flopping up and down. On a trail back to camp, the window finally gave out. Heavy rain was in the forecast that night, so I threw a Dobinson box over it and went home. Got home at 2:30am and threw a spare window in the next day. I had been meaning to reorganize and apply new stickers, so I guess this was a good opportunity?
Anyways, there’s your semiannual #TheDudeFJ60 update. Should be able to go a few years without touching anything but regular maintenance items at this point. Will update before next Ouray trip in June
“Natural causes”
You turned the 2F into a diesel and it still didn’t die.
We’re both 2F boys for life. Get used to it.
You turned the 2F into a diesel and it still didn’t die.
We’re both 2F boys for life. Get used to it.
