Gwagensteve
Well-known member
Hi everyone,
I was thinking about doing a build thread over on the other forum, but seeing as the activity is all here now, I figured I'd support irate.
Here's Hedgepig AKA piggles, my 1983 SJ410T
I bought Piggles in about 2006 (I think) and over Christmas of 2006 I rebuilt it. I had to put a new floor in the cab, salvaged from a rolled hardtop, front disc brakes and gave it a general tidy up for registration. Thankfully, the axles, rear brakes and F10 motor were in decent enough condition to get it on the road.
Once that was out of the way, I had three days to get it off-road ready for it's first trip, which involved some longer shackles welded rear diff, 2" body lift (I used to machine these and sell them) the world's noisiest 6.5 transfer case, and some ancient 9/34 swampers.
I don't have many photos of it back then, but it was fun, for sure. Other than the foibles of an old carby motor, the biggest issues was it was narrow, like really narrow, so it was pretty fond of falling over.
This is the earliest photo I have of it, doing what it liked to do, trying to kill me.
After about 9 months or so with the F10A, It was time for an upgrade, to a JDM Jimny F6A, 660cc turbo 3 cylinder. These are interesting motors. They make roughly the same power and torque as a stock 1.3 but obviously need boost to do it, so they're hilarious fun with lots of revs and funny noises. an advantage of this motor is it came with a 5 speed, and a lower 1st gear. F10A 4 speeds have a tall first gear and a tiny clutch and it's not a great combination.
Here's a very early photo of it with the 660 in it. When the 660 went in I added a SWB EFI Tracker fuel tank, which meant I revised the back of the chassis and rear crossmember, adding a pintle hook, and the exhaust moved to in front of the rear wheel. It was a MUCH better car to drive with this motor.
Here's an engine bay shot. Stock, these have an intercooler on the top of the motor about the size of a VHS cassette, and a very restrictive dump pipe. I fixed both of those things using parts scavenged from an old Cappuccino engined Samurai build
On our annual three day hard wheeling trip in 2009, I broke a rear spring, and decided the best way to fix that would be to......
I was thinking about doing a build thread over on the other forum, but seeing as the activity is all here now, I figured I'd support irate.
Here's Hedgepig AKA piggles, my 1983 SJ410T
I bought Piggles in about 2006 (I think) and over Christmas of 2006 I rebuilt it. I had to put a new floor in the cab, salvaged from a rolled hardtop, front disc brakes and gave it a general tidy up for registration. Thankfully, the axles, rear brakes and F10 motor were in decent enough condition to get it on the road.
Once that was out of the way, I had three days to get it off-road ready for it's first trip, which involved some longer shackles welded rear diff, 2" body lift (I used to machine these and sell them) the world's noisiest 6.5 transfer case, and some ancient 9/34 swampers.
I don't have many photos of it back then, but it was fun, for sure. Other than the foibles of an old carby motor, the biggest issues was it was narrow, like really narrow, so it was pretty fond of falling over.
This is the earliest photo I have of it, doing what it liked to do, trying to kill me.
After about 9 months or so with the F10A, It was time for an upgrade, to a JDM Jimny F6A, 660cc turbo 3 cylinder. These are interesting motors. They make roughly the same power and torque as a stock 1.3 but obviously need boost to do it, so they're hilarious fun with lots of revs and funny noises. an advantage of this motor is it came with a 5 speed, and a lower 1st gear. F10A 4 speeds have a tall first gear and a tiny clutch and it's not a great combination.
Here's a very early photo of it with the 660 in it. When the 660 went in I added a SWB EFI Tracker fuel tank, which meant I revised the back of the chassis and rear crossmember, adding a pintle hook, and the exhaust moved to in front of the rear wheel. It was a MUCH better car to drive with this motor.
Here's an engine bay shot. Stock, these have an intercooler on the top of the motor about the size of a VHS cassette, and a very restrictive dump pipe. I fixed both of those things using parts scavenged from an old Cappuccino engined Samurai build
On our annual three day hard wheeling trip in 2009, I broke a rear spring, and decided the best way to fix that would be to......