got a 40 - now it begins

[simps80]

1976 fj40 -

Treeroot, John, and I had quite an adventure yesterday. The destination was Saratoga, WY the location of a very nice unmolested 40, May 1976 build date, which is interestingly to me the same month and year my wife was born.

Maybe Mike will post up the crazy road trip pictures; lots of ice packed roads...

This is a really clean unmolested 40. The only problem is, it will be a bit of a project to get it moving under its own power. For some unknown reason the P.O. before the P.O. pulled the motor and its nowhere to be found.

I bought it from a nice guy who owned it for about a month, I'm sure he made a nice profit, I'm okay with that, it is very nice.

The deal came with among a trailer full of other things of varying usefulness, the advanced adapter to put a small block chevy in it...Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that, but this thing is original enough that I think it best to put back in it as close to a heart as what came out of it.

So......
that's the plan, get it running with a good smog-legal 2f in as short of order as possible, piece together emissions and exhaust and drive it.

I'll post some pics and reserve some spots for future use :

Edit Fall 2014 todo list: (approximately page 28 for editing)
http://www.risingsun4x4club.org/forum2/showpost.php?p=257208&postcount=271

Edit feb 2015 link to maintenance log: (approximately page 30 for editing)
http://www.risingsun4x4club.org/forum2/showpost.php?p=262702&postcount=295

Edit March 2016 todo list: (approximately page 35 for editing)
http://risingsun4x4club.org/forum2/showpost.php?p=282963&postcount=347

 

[simps80]

 

[simps80]

 

[treerootCO]

That is one purdy 40.

 

[Jacket]

Yes indeed. Mine is a 5/76 as well - but I have more rust... Congrats!

 

[simps80]

oh nice!
might be asking lots of questions/sneaking pictures

 

[Shark Bait]

Very nice! Has to have a 2F.

 

[subzali]

Nice find Mike! With that carb cooling fan, I bet it's a California emissions vehicle. What color is the emissions sticker on the hood - white with black letters or black with white letters?

Interesting that it doesn't have the EGR light like Matt's does...

 

[RicardoJM]

Nice looking 40. Drop an engine and drivetrain in and get it on the road.

 

[MDH33]

WooHoo!

Glad someone in the club snagged that one! I saw it on CL and thought it looked like a gem.

 

[LXBRADY]

Very nice!

 

[treerootCO]

Nice find Mike! With that carb cooling fan, I bet it's a California emissions vehicle. What color is the emissions sticker on the hood - white with black letters or black with white letters?

Interesting that it doesn't have the EGR light like Matt's does...

The carb Mike has is stamped E41. I was trying to find out on SOR if it was Federal or Cali but the carbs look the same. Going off memory, the hood lable is black with white letters.

11/75-7/76 Federal
1/76-7/76 California
8/76-8/77 Federal

 

[subzali]

Mike, that carb code doesn't make sense. Needs to have a number, then a letter, then 1 or 2 numbers. Ex: 8 L 12 (mine).

The cali carbs are certainly different for some of those model years listed than the Federal carbs. If simps can post a pic I'm sure we could identify it.

 

[rover67]

that's a slick looking rig.

3FE?

 

[nakman]

Very sweet, congrats! Wow where to start...

 

[Jacket]

Nice find Mike! With that carb cooling fan, I bet it's a California emissions vehicle. What color is the emissions sticker on the hood - white with black letters or black with white letters?

Interesting that it doesn't have the EGR light like Matt's does...

Hmmm...and I don't have a carb fan. I guess the fan could have been added later.

 

[simps80]

The 'trailer full of stuff' included a '75 missing its front axle ...
it had a 'complete' engine and 4speed etc.

We barely even looked at the '75 before driving off with the 76 on the trailer...didn't much care, other than it had a builder if we needed it. Might be able to salvage some more stuff off of it later...

It also came with a block, head, crank, pan, possibly 6 pistons and rods. Mike pulled the serial numbers off of block and head and determined the block is a 2F Nov 2, 1976 vintage and the head casting is Oct 31, 1976.

the block, and crank have been machined (but likely will need to be done again, they were left out in the weather and got a bit of rust)

so that's probably next step... block, head, crank, internals, off to machine shop, pull the 4spd and flywheel/clutch/bellhousing off the '75 for re-use and start from there.

 

[subzali]

Wow, that block and head almost match my '77 perfectly! Don't happen to have a carb from that same engine do you?

 

[SteveH]

Nice truck! Good idea on sticking with a 2F - that truck deserves it. Consider a later 2F from an FJ60 - might be cheaper than a rebuild, and many of those later 2Fs are totally viable even with most of 200K on them.

 

[subzali]

3FE?

That's a swell idea as well...