Damn that really makes me want those steel wheels
When you bought your FJ40
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rkymtnflyfisher
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So far on my 1981 BJ44 I've replaced :
All 4 doors, fortunately I live in Arizona and I found some rust free ones.
Cab Corners, rear sill
Hood and front fenders, my truck had fiberglass aftermarket for all. I found new OEM Toyota, hood and fenders. Yea !
Top sides, Mine were rusted away and I had grafted some nice western ones that had to be custom adapted to the the BJ44 longer cab.
Running boards.
Springs and shocks, as it is a BJ44 the rear springs had to be custom made.
It's pretty solid now. I bought it on eBay, shipped form New Zealand, it was a turd.
Any JDM car is sure to have the auto rust feature fully engaged.
All 4 doors, fortunately I live in Arizona and I found some rust free ones.
Cab Corners, rear sill
Hood and front fenders, my truck had fiberglass aftermarket for all. I found new OEM Toyota, hood and fenders. Yea !
Top sides, Mine were rusted away and I had grafted some nice western ones that had to be custom adapted to the the BJ44 longer cab.
Running boards.
Springs and shocks, as it is a BJ44 the rear springs had to be custom made.
It's pretty solid now. I bought it on eBay, shipped form New Zealand, it was a turd.
Any JDM car is sure to have the auto rust feature fully engaged.
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Couple of weeks ago, my first foray into 40s...
She's sitting in the garage waiting for me to get some free time later this year.
She's sitting in the garage waiting for me to get some free time later this year.
Ever evolving
Mine was brand new in a1974. I was moving to northern Vermont. Back in the ‘70s it was a snow covered area and ski mountain and there was no way my Firebird 400 was gonna make it thru winter. This was my first new truck and it started a life long affair with FJ40’S. These photos have been posted before I believe but that winter….NOTHING held me back from getting up and over those mountain roads
My first Thanksgiving in 1974 we had nearly 20” of snow …never an issue
My first Thanksgiving in 1974 we had nearly 20” of snow …never an issue
fjc-man
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My birthday present to me, April 2014.
These are about the oldest I can readily find. Bought it in Dec 91. The frame was starting to go so I bought a new frame for $150 and swapped it in. It has changed a lot since then... Lost count on the number of donor vehicles at about three dozen. My son in this picture is now in his 30s.
I've driven it over 100k miles. It came with a tired 1.5F, and I swapped in a 350 when the estimate in '96 was over $3000 to rebuild the F. It now has a second 350 in it.
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This is what $750 bought me in October of 1985. No caps on the main bearings (PO spun the crank twice with a Delco distributor) 2” of leaves gone to mulch on the floorboards, wheelwells and bed. No gasket between the hardtop and side panels, no hatch header. And the dark spot on the ground behind the truck was what was left of the rear sill.
I rebuilt my first SBC for my K5 the year before, so I figured I would do the same for the 40. Marv Spector eventually not only changed my mind about the engine…but also the course of my life.
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When you're fixing the brakes I'd highly recommend a disc swap on all four corners. I can't strongly enough advise using stock Toyota components for the front... anything else doesn't come even close. Poser's kit for rear discs is a safe bet for the rear. That is unless you can swap in a rear axle that has discs and an E-brake on it.
cruiserkev
3 decades in the same FJ40
Bought this beast in the summer of 1995. My dad found it for sale in front of Olympic Off road in Tacoma Wa and knew I had been looking for a 40 for months. Went for a test drive and it was love at first sight. The owner only had had it a few months and had bought the cruiser from the original owner who used it for hunting in Montana. I threw him $5k, no haggling and it was all mine! Lots of things were wrong with it, wiring issues, clutch master cylinder, headlights all needed to be fixed. Engine was tired and needed a rebuild, it had a cheap paint respray and tires were cracked. This began my labor of love that has lasted nearly 3 decades. Fix, drive, break, repeat has been my mantra for all that time. Hundreds of adventures in it and many more to come. 1st picture is from winter 97 (my son was a baby then and has grown considerably!) and the other is how it looks now! Thanks for reading!
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Bought mine in summer of 2020. 1974 completely disassembled and move from house to house for 20 years. Quite a puzzle.
Is that the ultra cool Downey half cab top in the first pic?
Tigerstripe40
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Here's the day I brought my '76 FJ40 home in June of 2000.
I immediately rebuilt the motor.
I think I still have that mirror with the dent in it somewhere...
But I wheeled and DD's that truck for 10 years.
Here's how it sits today:
I immediately rebuilt the motor.
I think I still have that mirror with the dent in it somewhere...
But I wheeled and DD's that truck for 10 years.
Here's how it sits today:
Yes it is…if I remember correctly…it was around $1700 and came with a panel for the lower half of the truck bed where the top came down by the rear heater. The top really fit perfectly and the navy color contrasted that horizontal blue….looked factory . Jim Sickles commented on it a few months back and who the original manufacturer was
Something like this? March '79 pricing. Check the price of factory bows.
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The canvas came from Kayline.
The local dealership (now long gone) gave me access to the microfiche and hardbound price book back in 1990 and I was shocked to see a factory canvas still listed as available.
Looking further, there were about six lines of cryptic coding below the PN, description and pricing. The last of the six lines had a six digit number that I immediately recognized as the Kayline PN.
It was like that moment in Christmas Story when the kid uses his decoder ring to discover the ‘secret’ message.
The local dealership (now long gone) gave me access to the microfiche and hardbound price book back in 1990 and I was shocked to see a factory canvas still listed as available.
Looking further, there were about six lines of cryptic coding below the PN, description and pricing. The last of the six lines had a six digit number that I immediately recognized as the Kayline PN.
It was like that moment in Christmas Story when the kid uses his decoder ring to discover the ‘secret’ message.
