Un cuento de dos cerditos

[WrongsideDaily]

Beer: Cracking
Pen: Ripped
Grill: Lit
Sleeping Dogs: Lie
Square Business: ****ing Right
Repercussions: We'll FAFO

Pretty sure @Pighead is right about being off center, but it hurts my brain. And I already knew the one bracket had been relocated. When in Rome, go to the Vatican and sing despite being repeatedly asked not to, right?!

 

[gonzopancho]

I need that frame in the classifieds in Denver for this. I've been drooling over it since it has everything I literally need for this to be a driver.

Then we should talk.

 

[gonzopancho]

Anyone here have realistic experience with the Corbeau seat bracket and can give me feedback?

Tried to buy one off fleabay. Seller was a total flake.

 

[Pighead]

Anyone here have realistic experience with the Corbeau seat bracket and can give me feedback?

I can't remember how many years ago it was that I bought one, used. Still running it. Don't recall ever trying to take a pic of it though

 

[WrongsideDaily]

Those sill plates are pretty cool! I decided the seats are up on the chopping block. They're cool, but not a necessity as much as the budget I didn't have for a project I didn't really expect has now become. LOTS of life changes for me personally this past 18 months and both of these weren't even on my Bingo card.

Anyhow, here it is where it didn't make me happy. Rear towards right, front towards left, off center.

Here's where I landed it. Basically centered to the firewall recess to give me clearance for the header and to make a heat shield for the steering box

I used the right hand mount from an fj80 with its offset pin on the driver side. Unfortunately, it was torn when I pulled it but I welded scrap steel to it to match the thickness of the other fj80 mount which was right in the ballpark with the square mounts listed as superseded parts for these. When I looked at replacing the OEM rh fj80 mount I said NOPE and grabbed a set of the mounts on the left from Vatozone for $23 taxed. They fit Darts, Roadrunners, B series vans and D series trucks from the 60s/70s/80s. They're a little thinner, I have some 1/4" plate marked out to drill and cut and it'll put my 3* back in. (Left - right: Dodge Mount, ghetto rh fj80 mount, superseded OEM mount, fj80 lh mount)

 

[WrongsideDaily]

Things were way closer than I'd liked here, and my 3fe factory exhaust manifolds actually kissed it. Now I'll be able to march forward with that once I get the layout squared and moving with the carb 1f first.

 

[WrongsideDaily]

I'm happy-ish. Was the juice worth the squeeze? Absolutely not if it woulda worked cock-eyed (and it woulda), but here we are. Number for the drive line angle was 2.8* so I pretended it was an analog gauge and called it 3*.

Spacer plate for the Dodge Mount. It works for now, but I'm retarded and am most likely gonna relocate that bracket as well. Just not now because it'll get me by and there's a gazillion things to do to something that's sat for 30 years.

 

[WrongsideDaily]

I ran a flat stone over it and it wasn't warped, but some threads have been dicked.

Helicoil on the front outer. Got that cleaned out, no issue.

Rear outer came out with the threads on the stud

I ran the 8x1.25 tap in it anyway, got what looked like definition of threads, and used the 3rd world heli-coil. She's sitting up drying and actually bottomed and seemed to hold, I still gotta reassemble the carb. It'll get a damn heli-coil or timesert one day.

The venturi gaskets are ****ing glued to the damn carb. Soaking again because they're kicking my ass. I'm tired lol.

 

[WrongsideDaily]

This thing has really reignited my love for the process once I got past the frustration of one step forward, three steps back. Sitting here waiting for the ol’ soakaroo has me digging through the pictures trying to put ‘em all in one place. Here’s when I first saw the Ornch one aka Cerdito de Santa Fe

Stole the practice kid’s Sequoia and rented an in-town tow dolly and strapped four 255/75r17s on it. 345k on it, salvage title, it was the only 4wd Sequoia for a grand on marketplace that didn’t run after he unfortunately learned about uninsured motorists in his $600 silver sequoia we built him a few months earlier and were planning to take to the San Juan’s. This one made it instead. 200 series front coils I had laying around on stock struts up front with some 200 series 2721s and 80 series OME J shocks out back, Eimkeith PCK, away bars in the TacoBell dumpster, lunchbox locker up front and wired for 2wd low range.

I love New Mexico, I love Green Chile, and I love Blake’s Lot-A-Burger. Literally timed it so we would be getting breakfast in Roswell around sun up. No sleep in probably 40 hours here but it wasn’t a concern, I was on a mission

You got the one Snow Man, I’m East Bound and Down

 

[WrongsideDaily]

I feel like these are VW seats of some sort, the other side that’s not mounted on the factory Pig mount is a piece of wood. Just like my childhood with the 40 series split bench. I don’t know how I’m still alive

We got shooters on the field! Not a bit surprised, I built the Home Depot in Gallup as a kid and already got the shock value outta my system from that experience.

It’s complete enough for me. I’m a habitual beater driver and this is gold in my book. I may not even clean it.

Crispy

Pig in a Pig Kinda one of the bigger motivations is to make my old man suffer in the sweat box. He’s on borrowed time. If I could get a fair weather trip out of one of these things I’ll be extremely pleased, year made for sure.

 

[WrongsideDaily]

So here’s the meat and potatoes. I was hoping it needed a carb at the worst. I was salivating thinking I could be doing brake stands in this thing with just a carb and battery. NOPE.

Not only was it locked up, it was Tweaker special. I think we found our shooter!

 

[WrongsideDaily]

I mean, I guess they were resourceful

The adaptah! Helen Keller would be angered at the entitlement.

I always like finding trails of the past. I also found a letter from the late 90s for a women’s retreat in Salida or some s*** that cost like $350 back then plus expenses for some hippy dippy spiritual s*** and instantly went looking for the lady on FB. Profile pic was a dead ringer for the mail! I reached out, but she didn’t seem to remember an Orange Landcruiser but remembered a different color one that looked a little different and wished me luck

 

[PabloCruise]

^ Sweet, space it up or see if Recaro makes pillows. Got it.

Welp, this is mentally starting to snowball which means I need a budget. I reckon it's time to part ways with the lockers for the 100. I came to the realization that my poverty locked setup is enough to have a great time quite a while ago. I can just go back to that, start trailering it, and finish beer-canning it. I spent the budget for the 100 refresh on the Pig. I think it's seen its last summit and the Pig needs to see it's first.View attachment 4159362

Were you doing 100s In The Hills?

 

[WrongsideDaily]

Were you doing 100s In The Hills?

Noooooooo

Last couple years the practice kid and I shot up to CO to get away. Year before last we went solo for his graduation. He'd never seen mountains in person and wanted to see some and worked his ass off to finish school early, so we went. The kid grew up with NOT normal vehicles and pretty much had zero interest in what I do until that trip. This was just shy of the summit on engineer.

Can see where we gave up, bottom left corner of the picture

Y’all know what I was thinking here

 

[WrongsideDaily]

This past year with his Big Tree was pretty cool. He did really good navigating a bunch of trails that overlanders had him afraid of hahahaha!

This past year one of my best friends joined. He got the t4r in college as a certified pre-owned, wanna say around 2003. Started life as a 2wd sr5, I 4wd swapped it in 2020: regeared to 4.30s, e lockers front and rear, part time converted, relocated rear sway bar to correct geometry, spec'd out some Radflo's to fit, a whole bunch of little stuff. He doesn't turn wrenches so I built my friend something he can rely on, and it's been doing these runs ever since.

Well the carb is ready for assembly, but the dogs wanna go to the river. Kinda wish I had a early sight glass seal to use the early sight glass, but it's not a deal breaker. I just think it looks cooler all old and s***.

Also, happy Father's Day to those that apply. Sure wish the old man was here to roast for painting that ****ing 2f yellow one last time. I think my exact words in 4th grade was "That's retarded"

 

[WrongsideDaily]

I was a lucky kid, man. I’ve always wondered where this 40 ended up. Disappeared from my apartment parking lot right around my 18th birthday and hasn’t been seen since. I’ve lurked here over the years watching. There was zero rust and I could tell you where the filler is still, because block sanding this in 4th grade hours before school started with my father happened whether I liked it or not hahahaha

 

[WrongsideDaily]

Chopstick was perfect for popping the e spring back in

All dressed up, ready for install. Not worried about choke at this time as I can get it to work with a cable if I REALLY need it.

Installed

Pre-emptive electrical checks found a bunch of dirty terminals and a couple smoked fuses. Went ahead and got familiar with the layout and components

While I was doing so I pruned all the unused regulator wiring since it has a GM alternator now. Crazy that this thing hasn't had an F engine in it in probably 30 years

 

[WrongsideDaily]

Fire it and it seems lean, won't idle. Pull plugs and find the lawnmower plugs on the right. Shoulda found these a long time ago. At this point I started questioning the entire rebuild

Pulled the valve cover, all of the valves but maybe one or two with no lash, and even those weren't in spec. In fact, my issue was the valves being so tight they appeared preloaded open. While I was there I noted the top end feed setup, that it appeared dicked, and way less oil than I expected, although clean as if it was new.

This thing has been off its axis for a good while before the rebuild and wore a groove in the shaft. If I was a gambling man in the typical sense I'd bet this caused the drop in oil pressure that paved the road to the machine shop.

But I fired it. And for a cold fire, three pumps of the accelerator and it lit right up and felt and sounded SUPER crisp. Just zero oil up top. I had the dizzy out at one point when it was in the 71, so I started there. I could swore it was fine, but still, I needed a priming tool anyway so sacrificed a screwdriver.

RTFM FOREVER <3! First thought is the camshaft bearing was installed incorrectly after confirming the tube wasn't broken. Started doing a little searching and it seems these F engines had the passage in journal no2, and later model cams in journal no3. Again, I'm not a betting man, but at this point I'm about to go buy a lottery ticket because you can bet your ass I can turn a square into a pear.

 

[WrongsideDaily]

As it sits here on Tuesday night, 8:30pm CST. I just wanna drive one of these things and per Murphy, I'm gonna have to really work for it. So much of the way here I've felt like I went to the grocery store and shopped a full basket only to realize I left my wallet at home. I'm sitting here with a smirk though. This thing hasn't had a Toyota engine in it in probably 30 years but it does today, and it made Toyota sounds, and idled.

 

[Pighead]

It can take a while to see oil dripping off the rockers...
Also, to get oil up top with the priming tool, the oiling holes in the cam bearing have to line up with the oil passages in the block.