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Hey Greg, hope you enjoy the birthday celebrations that weekend!
So far there are a bunch of attendees from TacomaWorld rolling in on Friday.
As it stands myself and 3 buddies are gonna arrive at Black Lake sometime on Thursday, October 1st. We’ll be parked in Matt’s 4th gen Grey 4Runner and James’s Yellow FJ. Keep an eye out for us.
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I lead James on a tour by the orchard in his new ‘08 Yellow FJ, and both trucks ran like champs. I hopped out of Redee to get a short vid of James in the FJ, and parked facing downward on a hill. When it was time to go, I couldn’t get Redee out of Park. The shift cable had finally failed. With a massive ratchet strap I was able to anchor off the FJ, pull the tension off the park detent pin and shift into a Forward gear. Once on flat ground (and with much assistance from James), I layed under Redee to manually select Drive on the side of the trans.
Other than the pooped cable, both trucks had a blast touring.
Thanks again James for not letting me run myself over haha.
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Hey Steve, it’d be great if you could drop it off next weekend! As it stands I’ll be home for the weekend.
Hmmmm, got a quote of $90+tax to blast my frame. Vs roughly $200 to buy all the tools & consumables. My undersized compressor may be upset running such a big blaster as well. Hmmmm.
Gotta see if my neighbour still has a blasting job he wants completed. That could sway my vote. My other neighbour (next door) has a massive compressor I could borrow, I even have enough airline to run from his garage to the corner of my backyard.
Well my test both passed and failed. YES the hardware works outside the cabinet. NO it is not effective for stripping the bike. BECAUSE the hose and nozzle only extend 4” outside the cabinet. Just a little awkward holding the frame in one hand, and blasting with the other, all the while employing the “anti-blindness safety squint”.
Inquiring into paying for the service vs. buying a gravity feed hopper for $150 from Princess Auto. Leaning towards buying the tool so I can charge others for the service and my time in the future. And who doesn’t love new tools eh.
On my way into work this morning, I remembered I own a sand blasting cabinet. Will try to run the cabinet without recirculating the sand. @ $12 for a 50 pound bag, way cheaper than buying chemicals or fancy strippers.
Tonight in The Shop, I’ll test the blasting cabinet before buying more media.
Back to Square 1… …if it was multi-coloured and dipped in surface rust. Not sure exactly how best to attack the round tubing frame to strip the paint, but I’m sure elbow grease is a big component.
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Today in The Shop, I was pleasantly surprised when two crucial bolts came out relatively easily. I’ve always stuggled to pull the rearswingarm bolt (even invented a puller last time I had to get one out), but this one wasn’t seized anywhere. With it, and the second pivot bolt pulled, the entire “Full Floater” rear suspension came out as an assembled unit. Three more small bolts and the tail section popped off; fender, luggage rack & taillights. 7 Male-Female connectors separated and the wiring harness came off with ease.
Safe to say I Started making progress in frame painting. The bike will get repainted. Dark Blue for the frame. Semi-gloss black for the motor, pegs and kicker. Grey or perhaps just clear coat on the swingarm. Lots of paint stripping ahead of me still.
Wow you jumped in with both feet, looks real clean under there. Way more fasteners than I thought there’d be.
Hope you’re able to get your paint without much delay.Yea my buddy James was looking exclusively for Manual trans Toyotas, roughly 2000 and newer. Gonna be fun this fall/winter with an FJ and 4th gen to go touring with when the weather turns. James already putting pencil to paper for storage and bumper ideas.
My buddy James just left a deposit on a 2008 FJ with a 6-spd, hopefully he’ll be one of our newest members once he takes delivery.
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