FJ40 roll cage, power steering, and disc brake front end

[williamhamilton]

hey dude, I painted my cruiser with a shitty $100 repco compressor and one of those guns in the set

got a regulator and water trap and away I went and it turned out fine but for some reason it was a poo coloured orange.

did you buy a good gun, coz I got one you could borrow if need be

Fixed it for you Skid

W

[skid]

hey dude, I painted my cruiser with a shitty $100 repco compressor and one of those guns in the set

got a regulator and water trap and away I went and it turned out fine but for some reason it was a poo coloured orange.

did you buy a good gun, coz I got one you could borrow if need be

Fixed it for you Skid

W

I'm only gonna thread jack once, but for some reason my 1971 XY GTHO Raw Orange coloured 40 drove all over your poxy red one before you got your hands on it

[cooksworld]

hey dude, I painted my cruiser with a shitty $100 repco compressor and one of those guns in the set

got a regulator and water trap and away I went and it turned out fine.

did you buy a good gun, coz I got one you could borrow if need be

I painted the 40 using the compressor I've got last time - I could do one area at a time but I was forever waiting for it to catch up. Thanks for the gun offer... I think I'm all sorted... just need some serious time in the garage b4 the weekend

[cooksworld]

well... what a week. every night has been past 12am trying to get this thing ready for painting. I've forgotten how much I don't enjoy body work, especially on a old rust FJ!. It is finally feeling like it's all becoming worthwhile

Recap: Friday/Sat night (2:30am) chaos









Sat morning collected the compressor and tidied up the garage and ready for painting...





and the finished product



Sat night 10:30pm painting the roll cage and putting the dash back







Hard to believe its the the same old beast:



Still to paint once the rust is removed:

- doors

- bonnet

- rear doors

Another day...

[skid]

thats faaarking impressive dude

job bloody well done

top effort

[wopass]

thats faaarking impressive dude

job bloody well done

top effort

x2 on that!!, good work dude

[Lynx]

Look AWSOME, top work dude

Cheers Daniel

[chrome]

awesome work dude, nice photos too

[Bolo]

Well done mate that looks awesome , really keen to see more photos so keep them coming

[MNC]

That's looking Mint Cant wait to see more pics of it... And the final product. Well Done

[cooksworld]

*Thanks for the comments*

Not much done today... put back in the fuel tank and part way through putting back in the seat mounts. The back seat is bolted in. Feeling a bit tired

I'll put up some more during the week.

[cooksworld]

Things seem to have slowed right down. Last week was spent sorting the rest of the body panels, which were all fairly shot but I haven't been able to find good replacements for so rather than delay things because of waiting on replacements to turn up (from somewhere) I've fixed them up.. they'll get marked anyhow no doubt. I've still got to piece it all together and finish putting on the roof and door. One final bit of fabrication to do (shock tower) and then I'll be sorting some wiring, fluids, and getting it all running again in the hope of hopefully getting it certified next week - time permitting.

Some photos...

The sad state of the rear lower doors:





Passengers side door:




(this was better than the drivers one!)

And some of the painting... fiddly when you're trying to paint several panels in a confined space.

[cooksworld]

okay... I finally got the vehicle running today and took it for a quick drive around the block to try out the brakes and steering... a quick question however - what causes a shudder in the power steering? It's a reasonable vibration that I feel in the steering wheel and pedals at low speeds and when it's sitting there!

I'm wondering if I've connected the high/low pressure lines around the wrong way of could it be the pump not having enough pressure? The high pressure line is currently in the hole towards the front of the pump.

Any thoughts???

[sig]

you might have them round the wrong way. from mem its front in rear out(i could be wrong thou)

[Sadam_Husain]

I'm wondering if I've connected the high/low pressure lines around the wrong way of could it be the pump not having enough pressure? The high pressure line is currently in the hole towards the front of the pump.

Any thoughts???

This is a 70 steering box, the pitman faces backwards not forwards like your one, inlet and outlet should be the same though?

Purple from pump

Brown return

[cooksworld]

This is a 70 steering box, the pitman faces backwards not forwards like your one, inlet and outlet should be the same though?

Purple from pump

Brown return

Cool. Thanks for the photo. I'll double check tomorrow. I've been reading up and it sounds like it could be air in the system.

[cooksworld]

Finally out of the garage again... Firstly took the 40 for a drive to fill it up with fuel last night - no dramas except the front brakes weren't anything spectacular with the rear locking up before the front. Brought new pads for them today and I'll be removing the discs tonight for machining tomorrow. I took a couple of shots while it was out of the garage today.

Painted up the rims last night and gave it a polish... not looking bad considering I don't think I went crazy with the prep.



Still have to put the winch etc back on. I may just put the old bull bars back on for now. I've run out of spare time and we have a few projects under way on the house.



PS and replacement shock setup..



And on the underside..



Hopefully I'll get onto the certifier later this week and sort out a time for next week.

[chrome]

looks awesome dude

[Bolo]

looks awesome dude

x2 looking real good

[Taz]

Very nice man. Must be a good feeling almost having her on the road!

[cooksworld]

Very nice man. Must be a good feeling almost having her on the road!

sure is. The other good thing is that I now have a better starting point for any future mods.. before hand it felt like it wasn't worth the effort.

[cooksworld]

Just put up a series of photos on google picassa (mostly repeats from here but they're all in one location):

http://picasaweb.google.com/cooksworld/ ... directlink

[mike]

don't mean to put a downer on your build but alarm her, immobolise her, electrify her and get a club. Soon to be brother in laws mate was telling me he did the same to his 40 in welly - (2 years rebuilding it and it was mint) gone from outside his house while he was home!!!

Other than that, MINT!!!

[cooksworld]

don't mean to put a downer on your build but alarm her, immobolise her, electrify her and get a club. Soon to be brother in laws mate was telling me he did the same to his 40 in welly - (2 years rebuilding it and it was mint) gone from outside his house while he was home!!!

Other than that, MINT!!!

Funny you should say that... I had my last one stolen 2 days after getting it cert and warranted. It was never recovered...

Did all the same things last time around (cage, bars, paint). Never took any photos of it after rebuilding it but this was the web page that I put up back in '05 (http://scwebdesignz.com/landcruiser). Generally if someone's after something they'll get it. Had my motorbike stolen from my garage earlier this year... grrr. All I can do is to try and slow the process down for them

[Taz]

don't mean to put a downer on your build but alarm her, immobolise her, electrify her and get a club. Soon to be brother in laws mate was telling me he did the same to his 40 in welly - (2 years rebuilding it and it was mint) gone from outside his house while he was home!!!

Other than that, MINT!!!

Funny you should say that... I had my last one stolen 2 days after getting it cert and warranted. It was never recovered...

Did all the same things last time around (cage, bars, paint). Never took any photos of it after rebuilding it but this was the web page that I put up back in '05 (http://scwebdesignz.com/landcruiser). Generally if someone's after something they'll get it. Had my motorbike stolen from my garage earlier this year... grrr. All I can do is to try and slow the process down for them

Hope you don't mind the thread jacking but you are right about people getting something if they want it no matter what you do. I guy I used to work with from England told me his BMW touring bike (I think they are the heaviest model of bike you can get to) was taken from his garage. It was single access and the bike was in front of his station wagon so they had to carry the whole thing over over his car and out. They did this at night, without anyone seeing or hearing, his room was next to the garage, AND, they didn't leave a scratch (a few boot prints though) on his car...

[cooksworld]

Okay... another question - should the steering naturally return to centre? I've been driving the vehicle a bit over the weekend and one thing I noticed that I was struggling to keep up with the steering when you do a U turn (or similar). After driving it a bit more I realised that if you turn into a corner and take your hand off the wheel it continues in the direction it's turned... no more natural return to centre. I'm not sure if this is a WOF/LVV issue but it doesn't feel quite right. I know you can get the return to centre dampeners for 4WD's, but there could be a couple of other things at play here, like:

- wheel alignment has been done with the eye-cromoter (technical term for by looking at the wheels and saying they look about right)

- I've adjusted the preload on the PS box too much

- I've no steering dampener fitted.

Has anyone who's done a PS conversion experienced this, and does anyone know if it a WOF/LVV issue?

Here's a photo of the old bull bars... They'll be replaced with something new that will tie into the side bars at some stage.



The brakes still aren't that good. I've put in the new pads and tried to get a mobile disc machining service to do the work but they decided they wouldn't be able to fit their machine to the cruiser. To take it in to ABC in Wgtn they quoted $300 for an on the vehicle machining job (eek!) I'll phone around as I was hoping to just take the discs in to get machined but when I had the hub off I relaised that you had to punch out each of the studs... and the first one I tried didn't budget that easily so I reassembled the whole thing.

[LOLYF]

$300 to machine the disks
you can get brand new disks for about $60 each

[cooksworld]

$300 to machine the disks
you can get brand new disks for about $60 each

I know! They quoted $50 for discs off the vehicle and $300 when I called up the following day for doing the job on the vehicle, hence why I'll be shopping around

[mickey]

bowler motors in porirua machine disks and is into 4wds.

[safaripete]

do you have extended shackles in the front?? as the caster could be put out

my 40 is the same as i put 6" shackles in and its a cu*t on the road

if you go to the vtnz for a wof they dont road test them so how would they know
the guys i get my wfs thru they drive the cars for brake check and steering at a guess