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My first 4 wheel drive, a mighty FJ40 !

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My first 4 wheel drive, a mighty FJ40 !

Post by DannyW »

Hows it going fellas, I'm new here ! looks like a great forum to be apart of with heeps of good info.

I had a little 70s Diahatsu ute (simular to a early model suzuki) which was abit of a beast, it died when the starter motor engaged while driving on the beach, got bogged and then fried the starter completely and I gave up.

So now I own this little beast I got for $800. 1978 model FJ40 shorty, has a 302 ford v8 and pretty much stock other then that but hopefully not for long ;). I have a set of Rancho 9000x shocks coming for it as well as rockcrawler springs, new bushes, shackles, steering damper etc on tuesday all to suite a 2" lift.

As you can see the whole car is in the back of it pretty much haha but its all complete with 0 rust, not even one spot, most of it is in primer and all bolts/hinges/latches etc are in tins.

Will start painting it today.

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Post by midi73 »

Gday DannyW, Welcome to the forum. It is a very helpfull and informative forum. Nice 40 looks like a great project. You will have to keep everyone posted with progress picks.
By the way you have posted this in the wrong section. It should have been posted in the members section.
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Post by crunch »

thats an AWESOME project start.

Great buy...
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Post by DIRTY ROCK STAR »

GO THE 40s!!
congrats mate and welcome aboard.
you will also find alot of 40 info on ih8mud.com and 3rdrock4x4.com

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Post by DannyW »

cheers fellas ! sorry about putting it in the wrong section, at the time I couldn't see a better section to put it in.

will be posting pics in this topic as I put the car together, hopefully she'll be painted and running by next weekend.
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Post by Stackson45 »

Good choice mate!! all of the 40 series are the goods!
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Post by UZJ40 »

well done, cant go wrong with a 40 :lol:
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Post by DannyW »

:D yea they are so simple to work on by the looks, and very well built. Can't wait to get it on the beach !

where do I go on here to have a look at other's FJ40s ?
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