1982 FJ40 Restoration

[rover67]

I wanted to avoid surprise heater line leaks so I stripped them, checked them, cleaned them, and refoamed them. The short ones were easy. Longer ones might be harder to re foam. We shall see.

 

[rover67]

The longer ones weren't bad!!

 

[rover67]

Well while Adam and I were geeking out on proper heater line routing we bumped into a picture he took of a stock '82 and it shows the t case shifter knob I had in that previous picture on the left. It also correlates with Bruce's 82 60 which is cool!

 

[DanS]

Looking great brother!

I finally loaded two evap cans into a truck that will come back to CO within a week or so this afternoon for you too.

Dan

 

[rover67]

Thanks and THANKS!

 

[Hulk]

How did you re-foam the heater lines? Did you just find foam of the appropriate size and slide it on?

 

[rover67]

How did you re-foam the heater lines? Did you just find foam of the appropriate size and slide it on?

Exactly, I used this PN:

McMaster Carr part # 4339T8

I put some baby powder in it and slid it on. It actually worked easier than I thought.

 

[rover67]

Speedo cleaning and needle painting:

 

[rover67]

Does anybody have the tranny collar removal SST I could borrow?

 

[aprosise]

Does anybody have the tranny collar removal SST I could borrow?

Ive always just used my fingers. Push down and turn.

 

[rover67]

They are super tight sometimes and mine is one of those....


Also I was going to build one for a friend.

Ricardo reminded me I already saw one, thanks dude!!!!!:

http://www.risingsun4x4club.org/forum2/showthread.php?t=18555&highlight=SSt

 

[rover67]

Here's another question....

Does anybody know where the circled part of the negative battery cable goes? I can't figure it out. I don't remember how mine was routed.

*** picture lifted from internet ***

 

[rover67]

So the dome lights with two wires are apparently rarer than hens teeth. The only one I could find was abused one that had the rivet for the lever about to fall out. When I got the major crust off of it it did fall out...

So...

I machined a new brass rivet and put it back together. It works really well now.

Showing rusted rivet and new brass rivet:

Together:

I know it doesn't look like much but I was fretting this one.

 

[rover67]

Well sometimes you go backwards. Had to take the defrost vents off to put in the new linkage.. I was kinda sad but it went pretty quickly! It is literally unbelievable how well the wipers work with all new OEM stuff. It was extremely expensive but worth it I think.

 

[rover67]

And here's the first start, literally!! Primed it with no spark and called Al down to give it a go. Choke cable is out so it took some feathering but damn it runs great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziTHArOccSo&feature=share

 

[rover67]

 

[nuclearlemon]

Hellllll Yes!!!!!

 

[simps80]

geez thats really really great!!
so satisfying I bet.
Congratulations on all this Marco!!

 

[rover67]

More geek squad stuff. The new Toyota signal lights don't come with a ground wire but my harness has one. My guess is the new lights people are selling are for an earlier model. So.... I added a ground wire to them.

 

[wesintl]

love the look on al face when fired up. congrats!