Someday, I’ll have enough money that when my buddy sends me a link like this one I’ll be able to act on it.
Doesn’t that look like the foundation for an uber-BOV? Someday, man……….
Notes From The Bunker
Someday, I’ll have enough money that when my buddy sends me a link like this one I’ll be able to act on it.
Doesn’t that look like the foundation for an uber-BOV? Someday, man……….
Those are great little rigs. Pops used to own one when I was a kid back in the 70′s. That old Toyota got us out of a lot of jams. To bad they don’t make em like that anymore. Too narrow and prone to flip I guess.
Land Cruisers are bomber, but I want one of these for a BOV: http://www.atlanticfirearms.com/storeproduct732.aspx
What’s the problem? It’s the price of an AR with a top of the line scope.
Be aware that until mid 1976 All fj’s had drum brakes on all four corners… Slippery when wet. It will be worth your time, money, and patience to buy a 76′ or later so you have a front axle with disc brakes. I love my crusher and have spent enough money on it over the years to have purchased a brand new one. Mine has become a – Toyota mustard yellow 1976 fj 40, sprung over for six inches of lift on stock springs for the original ride, rear spool, front limited slip, ambulance doored hard top, ass kickin’ after market rear heater, with donkey killing steel bumpers front and rear four byin’ machine. P.S. Have you ever run the Wild Bill OHV trail on Blacktail mountain up in Lakeside, MT? Fun, fun, fun…
The FJ was a kit vehicle, basically. Virtually none were left stock. Chevy parts seem to bolt on, from what I’ve been told. Reason being it may have been a GM design originally, or something along that line. Small block v8 swaps are common. Back in the 80′s, two of the managers in a high-tech company I was at had them. One had a 350, the other a big block 427! The 350 was set up better, with a very small Holley 4bbl, so it would breathe right at high altitude, and it was a center pivot float bowls design, so it would work on steep hills.
The wheels on that one are wrong. Too much offset, no body clearance unless you carve up the body. Change the wheels, or start cutting, if you decide to get it. Don’t worry about the brakes, until/unless you change axle assemblies, then consider getting them with discs.
I like that they will fit any jeep sized trail.