What did you do to your pig today?

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Filled w/good old ps fluid. While I'm happy to finally have the overdrive, the power steering (and smaller mini truck steering wheel posted earlier) makes the biggest difference in daily driving. It'll all get tested during elk hunting season soon. That'll be my "harvest season" with any luck at all but there's a reason it's called "hunting" instead of "getting."
 
I have an extra mini truck box sitting in the shed. I've been thinking hard about putting it onto the Bucket. What all is needed to do so other then the box and the mount? I've got a messed up shoulder and PS would be awesome.
 
hairy_apple said:
I have an extra mini truck box sitting in the shed. I've been thinking hard about putting it onto the Bucket. What all is needed to do so other then the box and the mount? I've got a messed up shoulder and PS would be awesome.
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The mount is the biggest thing. The pitman arm comes off your stock box and goes onto the powerbox. The steering shaft plugs right in, perhaps with some trimming, and that's it!. Obviously you need a pump and a crossover high pressure line to go between the pump and box. Don't know why I waited so long.
 
My mount, from Iron Pig Offroad, is a bolt on replacement for the driver side shock tower. Pre IFS mini-truck ps box bolts right on. You do need to swap in the FJ55 pitman arm (need a strong puller if its been on a while) and, in my case, the connecting shaft between column and box was a tight fit but went in with some remaining play on the splines. I used a late '60s/early '70s Saginaw pump with same era mounts to my SBC. You'd need to find appropriate mounts if you're using an F engine...search for writeups on MUD for this swap. Lines depend on application with a custom high pressure line (metric and one end, SAE at the other except I've found out some rebuilt Saginaw boxes use metric fittings) needed.
 
Wow, I will have to do that then. I did the saganaw for my 40 and it was a pain in the butt. I think I have a chevy pump and mount somewhere, and the lines are easy enough to have made. We have a shop here in town that does big rig stuff and that's where we have all our lines made. The 40 was a major effort that wasn't about to undertake without some guideance again, but this sounds pretty simple and straight forward. Thanks.
 
i got the fj60 top cover in so my shifter is no longer directly under the heater (you can see where i had the body cut and bent up for the shifter), while pighead decorated my newly built rear shaft
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Fitzgerald said:
Love the drive shaft! If A64 passes today, will you drive around in circle so I can watch?
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you'll have to wait until pighead paints the rear park drum in quarter sections, alternating blue and red
 
pair o pigs.

Did something to Snow Pigs rig. Helped him tune her up after an engine rebuild. Sounded good when it left...Ha!

He's got a clean one but he's looking for a 76 smog legal stock carb. Anyone got one?

Let me know and I"ll pass it along.

May get them out wheelin in the snow this weekend.
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Bent my front bumper, put a baseball size mash in my rear driverside door, and put a nice scratch on my rear quarter panel!

Was stoked tho, my just finished 62 disk brakes worked like a charm.
 
For the past week I've been using the pig as my daily again.
Its been an average 95deg F during the day & im happy to report the SBC is sitting within 5deg either side of the 180F thermostat in traffic :grinpimp:
Drove it all the way into the city and picked up a new relay rod end as the steering has been rather sloppy.
I got told that Toyota did a recall on the 55's and they should have 22mm tie rod ends rather then the original 19mm. Anyways mine missed the recall, lucky for me as the dealer only has the 19mm in stock :)
Fitted the tie rod end this arvo after work, yippee nice steering again.
 
Then, added one of those Hi Preformance exhaust tips, like all the cool cars have...
Just wish it was chrome.
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bobm said:
PIGHEAD, Thats awesome can you make one for me.
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I can Bob, and I'll trade you one for a pair of your front fender patches...
 
I made some patch pieces for the openings in the bottom of my rear quarters...
Which I had been running open since 2001 when I cut off the wrinkled bits after the first Pigs on the 'Con run. It really didn't bother me in California, Denver is wetter and it was made clear to me that it was time to plug those holes.
So I found a big piece of sheet metal and cut a couple slabs out of it, beat them into an approximate shape and pounded them into place. Didn't care too much for trying to weld them in upside down, so I just drove some screws in to hold them until I figger out something better.
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Fixed my rear window, let the dog jump in the back, and choked on diesel fumes all the way to he hardware store :-(. At least it works now, folded the seat down and let the dog drool out he side windows instead on the way home ;-). Successful trip for some new shiny screws to install the tailgate panel -

Tucker
 
Pulled a few years of wheeling junk out of the back and reprinted the interior.

Most of the weekend was rewiring the LV. Didn't fuss with the carb on the SWB. too cold in the home garage.

Too many cruisers. Wife says I have to get rid of at least one before I buy a 1951 GMC COE on CL. How unfair is that?
 
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