What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week?

ocdbeetle · 06-05-09, 06:04 PM

Made a black canvas strapless bikini top just for grins and giggles......Looks cool.....better than the
Natural color canvas bikini I made....

KY Longhunter · 06-05-09, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by ocdbeetle

Made a black canvas strapless bikini top just for grins and giggles......Looks cool.....better than the
Natural color canvas bikini I made....

You know you can't say "strapless" and "bikini" without pictures!

What are you, a tailor?

Ron B · 06-05-09, 07:47 PM

Installed a new fan clutch and t,stat in the SBC and changed the oil today.

bsmith123 · 06-05-09, 07:47 PM

Got the Warn 8274 bolted on and got a fairlead from Poser
Got the doors I got from SouthBostonFJ installed with the hinges from ANTFJ

just about ready --waiting on nuts for the driveshaft to brake hub

Gus · 06-05-09, 08:48 PM

Finished fabbing exhaust for the 73, disassembled the hardtop and blasted and primed a few misc interior brackets.

Seth_O · 06-05-09, 11:49 PM

Finished fabbing, painting, and installing the shifters for my new drivetrain. Went with the 3 stick setup a la boots' build.

beavf16 · 06-06-09, 04:44 AM

Torched, PB Blastered, and cranked a ratchet for 3 days to get my roll bar off to clean and paint it.

cruiserdoc · 06-06-09, 05:25 AM

Sad Day!!!!!

This week I put my cruzer up on jack stands, filled the tank and added fuel stabilizer, and set it up for a one year storage in my fathers barn. Oh well at least it will be safe, dry, and started every couple of weeks until i can reclaim it

ocdbeetle · 06-06-09, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by KY Longhunter

You know you can't say "strapless" and "bikini" without pictures!

What are you, a tailor?

No tailor.....Just practicing......I'll put a couple pics in my bikini thread.....

tmarx · 06-06-09, 11:55 AM

That top looks coooool !!

destin · 06-06-09, 01:31 PM

Looks great man!

I would would buy one from you!
( assuming it would fit in the factory front window channel and OEM bows )

If your interested in making one like that i would happily buy it

Again, looks sharp man!

( Posted this in your other thread as well )

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Originally Posted by cruiserdoc

Sad Day!!!!!

This week I put my cruzer up on jack stands, filled the tank and added fuel stabilizer, and set it up for a one year storage in my fathers barn. Oh well at least it will be safe, dry, and started every couple of weeks until i can reclaim it

71AZFJ · 06-06-09, 05:00 PM

Just installed a new set of skyjacker shocks.getting ready to lay down herculiner in tub.

ojaij40 · 06-06-09, 06:29 PM

Drilled 3" hole in front of crossmember for my new "AGR" saginaw steering box, installed ring gear on my new ARB locker (for the front), Pressed on the new 32010X carrier bearings, and painted the diff. waiting to purchase knuckle re-build kits...

caz · 06-06-09, 06:53 PM

I finally got the 35s I have been wishing I could afford since I got my truck together! Washed the truck and took some poser shots.

BFG MT KM2s

bsmith123 · 06-06-09, 09:42 PM

drove it on a truck and shipped it to the UK for my move there next month

TOBASH · 06-06-09, 09:57 PM

Drove it!

May not seem like much, but she sat with a water leak for 5 months.

Then, I fixed that and she wouldn't start.

So today I continued tracing circuits (with help of the Diesel section).

I found an oddball problem. Everything pointed to fusible link, but the fusible link tested out OK (even so I rebuilt it - to no avail). The wire after the fusible link tested OK too (2 inches after the connection).

I decided this had to be a questionable wire anyway, so I checked it inside the firewall.

What I found was weird and uncommon.

The wire that tested OK outside the firewall was bad inside the firewall (and there is no intermediary plug).

I ran a test wire b/t the 2 and it worked!

So, I ran a 12 gauge wire that I piggybacked off of the power side and spliced into the firewall side.

Then I went out for a drive!!!

Next, I need to figure out how to get rid of my blow-by.

At least I am driving in time for summer! I am told I can drive with a blow-by for years. I think I might until I can find a 3B with a 5 speed.

Best all,

T

caz · 06-07-09, 07:07 AM

Hey Bill,

Been following your build. Glad to see you are getting it together! Hope the engine is treating you well.

CAZ

Eshu Elegua · 06-07-09, 09:24 AM

Installed a G.R. ( gear reduction) FJ60 starter(rema. from Napa) buy 5 used military tires 900 x16 ,now need to order 16x6.5 steels rims to get ready to Florida swamps.

Notice the tall tires 9.00x16 next to 34x10.50x17 Super Swamper LTB..before someone said something,,here in Florida we don't have mountains or snow or rock climbing hills...so a taller tire is good here for our trails that when the rainy season start its just water all over

ernest · 06-07-09, 12:52 PM

started rebuilding my front end

dkroth · 06-08-09, 12:02 PM

Finished up the knuckle rebuild on my BJ42.

When putting the calipers back on I noticed a torn boot. Upon further investigation it became obvious a full rebuild is in order, including two new pistons to replace pitted ones (the other six are just fine).

ocdbeetle · 06-08-09, 12:14 PM

I want to see the tires mounted Eshu......

hippi68 · 06-08-09, 12:24 PM

tore the intake manifold off to begin the search for source of water in oil. found a crack in the top of the head :(

figure this is maybe a good time to upgrade. a friend of mine has a small block 400 ( 350 in right now ).
anyone know of any serious complications in a swap like this ?

Al Johnson · 06-08-09, 12:27 PM

Put in a new (used) distributor and set timing to get ready for the smog nazis's. Getting ready to put in emergency brake disc conversion kit and hope the heck it works.

Eshu Elegua · 06-08-09, 02:37 PM

ocdbeetle

"I want to see the tires mounted Eshu"

im hunting rims for the tires..16x6.5 or 16x7...would like steelies for those tires..here a few pics 9.00x16 on others fj40

KOOTENAY KRUZER · 06-08-09, 09:05 PM

Eshu, those sure look like old military tires to me. Maybe a surplus store might have some?

ocdbeetle · 06-09-09, 10:07 AM

Coker might have some rims....They sell similar tires....

Looks sweet....

ocdbeetle · 06-09-09, 07:40 PM

Decided I didnt like the way the strapless bikini looked so I
made a strap bikini.....I have some black and khaki canvas but
found some OD green today so I made it out of the green...

Took some trial and error to find the right taper so the straps
would pull the slack correctly....Its amazingly tight and .....well.....Canvas is just cool.....Oh yeah...the wally world sewing machine is long gone now....

destin · 06-09-09, 07:42 PM

looks nice man

I still really dig the strapless one btw

ocdbeetle · 06-09-09, 07:46 PM

Thanks - I liked it - just looked like something was missing...the flat deck looked like a helicopter landing pad......This one tightens up much better too...

lone gunman · 06-11-09, 09:47 PM

i finally got the 40 running with the new TPI set up. it took me almost 2 years researching and finding all the parts to do it right. i bought all the books i could find on TPI and read them twice and studied everything i could find on google. still have to set timing and adjust the idle setting but it RUNS. oh and to piss off the purists i had a TOYOTA throttle body plate made (LOL) still have to get the vette valve covers finished and put them on but finally getting there.