simps80
Rising Sun Member
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
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
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