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Hi Mike,
Thanks, yea its a fun rig even without A/C. I run into many folks while fueling with childhood stories about an uncle or dad that had a fj-40. Young and old alike seem to wonder over to see my DD.
Glad you had a great Fathers day. Always fun to build and maintain a short wheel base rig.


I took her on a "shake down cruse" on Friday after burping the cooling system. She hauled a$$ up 8550' elevation and has never ran so cool. The base temperature was 105º and ended at 79º 45 minutes later. Mount Bigelow (Arizona) - Wikipedia, the free...The gauge was 1/3 up from cold (use to read 2/3 past cold) so I leaned her out to squeeze more MPG's. A heat gun indicated she's running 30-40º cooler with new rad.
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A shot of the "old pueblo" facing south. Poor bastards are cooking down there.hehehe (6K elevation here).
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The final trail leading to the towers at Mt Bigelow.
Keep the shiny side up amigo!

Turn and burn!
Paco
 
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OK, Quit teasing us. you are making me wish I had my old 1965 Fj40 back. It would beat you up on the road but would climb like nothing in low gear. Was prob the only one in TX that had actually driven on top of a glacier in AK when I sold it back in the mid 90s, The only thing I had changed out was the front and rear ends, as I wanted Disk brakes, and the old axels were shot. Originally purchased it for chopping fire wood for the previous owner to make it through the winter. Problem was he lived on the side of a glacier valley, and we had to hall the wood up to his place and stack it. That thing was great for snow, Ice, Sand and water crossings. The Toyota club I belong to at the time all drove through the glacial river, up the side of the glacier and back. Boy was that a cold trip.

Nice to know yours is till on the road. and now doing well again.
 
Haha, sorry man, your right, not cool.....I wish you still had your 40 too.
 
I wish I had your view around here. How hot has the temp been there lately. My garage is so hot I do not stay in there for very long or I start sweating on the machines. Not good for them Although it might cause me to loos a bit of the excess weight.
 
Firestopper, when I lived out there some 30 yrs ago we would go up redington pass and end up in cheva falls , quite a ride and nice swimming hole for that area, dought you can do that anymore
 
kvt said:
My garage is so hot I do not stay in there for very long or I start sweating on the machines. Not good for them Although it might cause me to loos a bit of the excess weight.
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That's exactly where I am. Last year I had an old furnace blower mounted in my small garage window. This year the window is blocked by the shelves I set up behind my lathe. My only circulation comes from running my dust collector without connecting it to anything and without the filter bag. It does make a nice, strong, directional breeze, but it's loud and blows dust around so I can't have it on when running machines.
 
I have a fan running in the there full time. but that does not seem to help much at times. Have not figured out if it is the humidity or what, but it just does not seem to cool off in there.
Do not have any windows, except in the garage door, so no place to put any window AC or something. Could leave the door to the house open and see if it cools me off a bit, but then have to put up with the swarf and stuff getting into the house. What is better be hot, or have the other half ****** off because she got a sliver of something in her foot.
 
It's like you have a camera in my shop. I do tend to leave the door open when my wife is gone, but she can't tolerate the noise.

Other than the fact of having the shop and equipment, the main thing I'm grateful for in my situation is having a north-facing garage door so it's never a source of heat. I happily trade off snow/ice that doesn't melt all winter for that benefit.

We built a 45'x45' shop (with ceiling up to 22') for my brother, with radiant heating in the floor, 5" of polyiso insulation in the walls, 20-something inches of blown-in insulation in the ceiling (with the rafters redesigned to accommodate all of it, with no shallowly insulated areas), and no windows (energy inefficient and the easiest way for someone to break in). But it's an hour from here. And his equipment is all automotive. Silly use of space (except when my cars need work...).

In other words, I'm very jealous.
 
kvt said:
How hot has the temp been there lately. My garage is so hot I do not stay in there for very long
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Yep. Got up to 82F here today. Fortunately my ground level shop has a direct connection to the cellar. So it was 72F in there today. Or in other words, warm enough to work in a t-shirt.

And to turn on the fan.
 
It was 105 in my shop yesterday afternoon about 3:00. And to top it off, the humidity was crazy high. These are the days when south Texas is pretty tough, weather wise.
 
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