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Originally Posted by chevy71super
You are correct. American Motors bought Kaiser/Willys in 1971 and built Jeeps until Chrysler bought AMC in 1987. You are correct, I used to wheel with a lot of FJ owners back in the day. Funny thing is they had to put a Chevy engine in them to make them half decent . . . .
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Correction: they came with Toyota’s version of a Chevrolet engine (it was a 235” six cylinder knock off; Toyo's = 258")which lead to the death of FJ-40 imports into the USA market in 78~79’.
To meet the EPA standards Toyota moved the engine temp up to a level where it destroyed the OEM engine. The thermostat was set at 235deg. The newer engines had aluminum intake manifold mated to the exhaust manifold (typical Chev six configuration). At 13,000 mi my intake manifold virtually melted through the mated chamber.
I R&R the six with a four bolt out of a 1973 Blazer, from then on it was screamer.
(back-in-the-day) Off the line I fried allot of Camaro’s & Super Chickens