What did you do to your pig today? (2 Viewers)

[TRAIL TAILOR]

Finishing up this 72.

J

 

[S a l]

Finishing up this 72.

J

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Nice- what wheels are those?

 

[elroberds]

It's not what I did to my pig today, but what I will be able to do to my pig. Sold my 40 finally. I may have cried a little bit as it drove away. Now to get serious on the 55. It will be my daily driver. Bought new bucket seats a while back. Now to pick a center console. Cruisercrap or CCOT. I know Tuffy is out there, but would rather give my money to someone LC affiliated.

 

[riderjgs]

Put the Frankencruiser to work over the weekend. Scouting trip for elk hunting in about three weeks.

 

[elroberds]

Put the Frankencruiser to work over the weekend. Scouting trip for elk hunting in about three weeks.

I miss elk hunting. I was raised south of Durango ( Aztec , NM) and we hunted the San Juan Mountains every year.

 

[riderjgs]

I miss elk hunting. I was raised south of Durango ( Aztec , NM) and we hunted the San Juan Mountains every year.

We're hunting south of Gunnison toward Saguache this year. Change of pace from our usual area down by Lake City. Hope to find at least one the size of the bull we saw in one first season camp on Saturday.

 

[WarDamnEagle]

Hunted the West Elk Wilderness area out of Gunnison many years ago. Beautiful country. That's a nice bull.

 

[riderjgs]

Talk about putting the Pro in procrastination. Bought weatherstripping for all four doors from Specter back in 2014. Quickly installed the driver door. In the intervening years, after every offroad adventure, I've cleaned all the dust out of the Frankencruiser and vowed to do the other three doors. Color it done...replaced the dried out cobbled together rubber on the other three today. Been sitting around so long the labels on the plastic bags were faded so much they were practically unreadable.
Since PP2020 have also cured my Exxon Valdez level oil leak by replacing the old Toyota oil pressure sensor with a NAPA unit. Also found and fixed my steering noise. Thanks to the oil leak, the undercarriage is well coated and ready for whatever winter brings.

 

[RUSH55]

Automatic rust-proofing

 

[Danforth]

I have been getting mine ready for sale. It's been fun working on this one again. I imagine it's like stepping back to the 1930s. Have had it since the mid '80s and the day I part with the rig will not be a happy day. The last owner bought it new and his wife cried when he handed over the keys.
Sadly, I am old now and must settle for using the 1990 FJ62 we own. The FJ62 just ain't the same. Too civilized.

 

[scrapdaddy]

She's a looker!

 

[scrapdaddy]

We did our annual trip to Hermann, Mo. It's a small German town founded along the Missouri river in the 1800's just to make wine. We've been going every Oct. for 30 something years just to drink the wine. Sorry for parking in the handicapped spots, photo opps. only, nobody was looking.

 

[Danforth]

She's a looker!

It is laugh out loud funny to get under the hood of a truck from the '70s in this day and age. You look in, you see every subsystem, and you can get your hands on any of it you wish and fix it. Step forward even 10 or 15 years and it is almost hopeless.

 

[Pigeaten]

I have been getting mine ready for sale. It's been fun working on this one again. I imagine it's like stepping back to the 1930s. Have had it since the mid '80s and the day I part with the rig will not be a happy day. The last owner bought it new and his wife cried when he handed over the keys.
Sadly, I am old now and must settle for using the 1990 FJ62 we own. The FJ62 just ain't the same. Too civilized.

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What year is that?

 

[Danforth]

What year is that?

It's a 74. Pretty much bone stock 4 spd. I'll post it one of these days. I am wrestling now with what to leave undone (unrepaired) because it is never possible to guess what the new owner would prefer. Don't want to spend money that the next guy will scrap out for an axle swap or disc brakes or something. You know what I mean.

Edited to add: I didn't make this as a sly way to post a classified. I posted it because I have had fun lately with the Old FJ55, and it's been too long since I have been able to say it.

 

[Ol Yeller]

I posted it because I have had fun lately with the Old FJ55, and it's been too long since I have been able to say it.

Awesome!

 

[Pigeaten]

It's a 74. Pretty much bone stock 4 spd. I'll post it one of these days. I am wrestling now with what to leave undone (unrepaired) because it is never possible to guess what the new owner would prefer. Don't want to spend money that the next guy will scrap out for an axle swap or disc brakes or something. You know what I mean.

Edited to add: I didn't make this as a sly way to post a classified. I posted it because I have had fun lately with the Old FJ55, and it's been too long since I have been able to say it.

Love to see mor pics, last 2 pigs I got, came from oregon

 

[WarDamnEagle]

Love to see mor pics, last 2 pigs I got, came from oregon

How do you keep track?

 

[Pigeaten]

How do you keep track?

Names, and physical defects, but they are brothas

 

[TRAIL TAILOR]

Made some rear reproduction c-channels for a customer.

J