Last Monday the test said I had Covid. I did get a tad sick, but nothing crazy, felt like a cold to me. But more importantly, that test afforded me a mandatory 5 days off of work!. Sure I had to use my own sick time, but I've got like 1400 hours cause I never get sick. I tried coming back to work this Monday but they said b/c I was still coughing, no go. Oh please let me come back to work! 
So, needless to say, I've been finding things to do on the 40. I started with the rollbar:
I had to wire-wheel down all the rustoleum rusty metal primer. Fun fact: although this site taught me that the 77 - 78 early rollbar should have been satin black, mine was positively gloss black, no question about it, lots of original paint under the brackets etc. So, back to gloss:
So today I went to check at the Toyota dealership to see if my new M10 bolts came in for the rollbar, but no dice. But I did get this nice consolation prize:
Other than that, and no pictures, I also fixed the one broken lug that I had on the passenger front wheel (of course with Toyota parts including a new lug nut), then I took it to town and got the tires rotated. Today I took off the wiper motor cover to do a "quick and easy" job (promised my girlfriend I would take it easy today)... Yeah the wire wheel taught me that the cover was eat up with rust. For now, I cleaned it up, hit it with some ospho, and did a skim coat of JB Weld for the pin-holes. Once that cures I can sand it down and it should be fairly decent after some Cruiser Corps T621 rattle can. Oh, I also tightened up the timing cover bolts, they "got loose" (how does that happen) and I was coating everything with oil. Er, I mean I had a correctly operating FJ40 anti-corrosion system coating the underside of the truck .
So, needless to say, I've been finding things to do on the 40. I started with the rollbar:I had to wire-wheel down all the rustoleum rusty metal primer. Fun fact: although this site taught me that the 77 - 78 early rollbar should have been satin black, mine was positively gloss black, no question about it, lots of original paint under the brackets etc. So, back to gloss:
So today I went to check at the Toyota dealership to see if my new M10 bolts came in for the rollbar, but no dice. But I did get this nice consolation prize:
Other than that, and no pictures, I also fixed the one broken lug that I had on the passenger front wheel (of course with Toyota parts including a new lug nut), then I took it to town and got the tires rotated. Today I took off the wiper motor cover to do a "quick and easy" job (promised my girlfriend I would take it easy today)... Yeah the wire wheel taught me that the cover was eat up with rust. For now, I cleaned it up, hit it with some ospho, and did a skim coat of JB Weld for the pin-holes. Once that cures I can sand it down and it should be fairly decent after some Cruiser Corps T621 rattle can. Oh, I also tightened up the timing cover bolts, they "got loose" (how does that happen) and I was coating everything with oil. Er, I mean I had a correctly operating FJ40 anti-corrosion system coating the underside of the truck .
. I'm finding a good Fluid Film treatment on the Speed Holes lasts about a year, then time to reapply. Down here in Texas I can find the regular rattle can size of Fluid Film at my local O'Reilly Auto Parts, but just a few at a time, so I buy them out everytime I see it in stock.
