I'll start by qualifying that I am a dambass and this post would be much better with pics, but (1) I forgot the camera, (2) I forgot the camera, and (3) well you know.

Managed to disappear from work yesterday and find a WMA with a few trails to go play around with the new tires and breaks and knuckles and such. Probably the 2nd hardest stuff I've ever put the truck through, 2nd only because I haven't fixed the winch yet and didn't want to get more stuck than a hand winch and a long rope would deal with. Found a couple of trails that looked like they hadn't been wheeled in over a year and wiht our recent rain there was lenty of slick clay to test the new mud terrains. Definitely put through the steepest angles its seen yet, such that (since I don't have a roll bar) my passenger was ready to jump out the back of the truck a couple of times.

Truck was great. Unbelievable the difference with the new tires and the ability to stop and hold inclines with no effort. I was in absolute heaven. Problem started after during one hill climb I hit some washouts and stuff and and pretty much stood the truck up on its back end. After that it went from running great to not so great.

What it is doing now; It starts fine, idles fine, revs up fine. The problem is I can't hold a steady RPM outside of idle. I have to step on it, let off, step on it, let off, etc.. in order to drive it. Any ideas? I ran some of that fuel additive through it with this tank in order to clean it out since it had been sitting a while and had already used half a tank playing around out at the farm the past couple of weekends. But everything was fine until yesterday when I really put it to work.

Any suggestions would be great
tom

What kind of cruiser, what engine etc.?

sounds like you might have shaken up some crap in the gastank. Check your filter.

sounds like you might have shaken up some crap in the gastank. Check your filter.

Beat me to it. It would be the first thing I checked. Stood the truck on end without a rollbar with a passenger riding along?

Should have said its a 1970 FJ40 with the original F, rebuilt top end such that it has 145 compression across the board, a POS weber 32/36 with the HEI electronic ignition conversion and an electronic fuel pump. I have the original fuel filter in front of the fuel pump and an in-line filter in front of the carb. I was hoping it could be junk in the filter.

Yeah, we got a little out of control in a few spots and had to cool it. But the trail was so tight and the banks so high that when it reared up the truck turned sideways and the spare tire carrier hit the bank keeping it from going over. If I ever manage to finish school (working on year #13) and get a real job I see a Metal Tech cage heading my way. May be sooner if there is some sort of student discount I don't know about :D

tom

Heck, I have a cage I'll send you for shipping if you promise to put it in.

I do NOT wnat to hear about another person getting squished becasue he thought it was too expensive to put a cage in his rig..

You life is worth way more than a couple of bucks for a cage..

Heck, I have a cage I'll send you for shipping if you promise to put it in.

I do NOT wnat to hear about another person getting squished becasue he thought it was too expensive to put a cage in his rig..

You life is worth way more than a couple of bucks for a cage..

AMEN!!! Put a cage in the bitch.

Get a cage, then we'll tell you the answer. :flipoff2:


Standing it on end might have stirred up some stuff in the bowls of the carb also. Take it apart and blow out all passages with carb cleaner.
You may have dumped some oil from the crankcase into the carb thru a vacuum line or something and plugged something up from extreme angles.

Also make sure that nothing has shifted: may have a pinched fuel line, cracked a line and sucking air.

-tom

I'm in Birmingham and I believe I have a factory roll bar that you can have if I can round it up. I know it doesn't even compare to a full cage but it is a full step up from what you have now (or don't have as the case may be).

I'm definitely interested in your cage Mace if its better than the stock. I'll throw down some $ for it over shipping. Send me some pics or post if you don't mind. If its no better than stock then let me know if you can find yours swervin and I'd be willing to use it as a temp.

I always kind of liked the no bar old army look of the stock 40 topless. However I'm beginning to realize that instead of growing more sensible with age I'm getting a little more nuts and I'll have to abandon some of my purist ways and do some drilling.

tom

Back on topic.. any luck getting your rig running right?

-t

Tom, you better protect your melon or that 13 years of school will be wasted. I have a couple of guys here in town that could bend up a cage for you OR we could put in a stock roll bar and weld in a Metal Tech front kit pretty cheap.

I replaced the in line filter that I had added in front of the carb this morning. Took the glass bowl off to see what was in the primary filter and found about a half inch of crud on the bottom and caked on the filter :eek: guess that could cause a few issues, heh. Couldn't find an original filter in town and everyone tells me they can't order one. Anyone know where to find it? Dealership maybe? I figured I'd give it a try just cleaning out the bowl and putting it back together, relying on the in line filter to do the job. Took a long time to fill the glass bowl with gas and I had to suck on the line to get the pump primed. It still won't fill the clear filter and continues to run the same way. I assume this means the tank is a mess and there is something in the line somewhere restricting the flow. Sound right? Anyone down this way know where I can get a tank reconditioned? I supppose tonight I will be taking all the lines off and blowing them out draining the tank and taking it out to try to clean it as best as I can. Any other suggestions?

Thanks
tom

Hey Deepsouth, When we gonna go play in the clay? I've got the menas to weld a cage up, just no way to bend, cut and notch the pieces. This is why I was planning on the metal tech cage, full family cage since I'll have the boys with me hopefully. If you've got a line on a way to get the non welding aspects done resonably cheap, let me know.

tom

come on down we have about 40 acres that was just clear cut about 15 minutes from my house, we could go out there and terrorize the animals.

There are a few old friends of mine that have benders and such that weld for a living, I'de like to think that they'de cut me a deal but it is their livelyhood so I wouldn't expect much for free. Getting that free stock rollbar and adding a pre-cut cage up front would be the cheapest way to get your noggin protected before you get out there and land on your lid.

I searched around locally (Jasper) about boiling and relining my tank at all the radiator shops and nobody would touch it so let me know if you find a shop in Birmingham.

I checked around here a couple of yrs back and found the same thing. For some reason no one in AL that I can find wants to touch a gas tank. Maybe I'll have to head over to atlanta or up to tennessee somewhere. Anyone have any suggestions?

tom

I would look for a do it yourself kit, did poly tanks kill the relining market???