1984 potash mine truck

[matty_sunn1]

With my 40 looking at another year of work. im looking at this 1984 70 it has been used as a pot ash transoprt truck. it doesnt have any signal lights. the body it rough with dents but very little rust. it has 50000km's on it. is it worth making a conversion to a street cruiser.

here is the ad 1984 Toyota Land Cruiser Industrial - Edmonton Trucks & Vans For Sale - Kijiji Edmonton

it sounds not bad i just have some questions about it that the seller from the company didnt know like wat engine is in it. im thinking it had a 3b. also is there any diffence between a minecruiser or a street one with.

[crushers]

hummm, doesn't look like any 84 i have seen...

3B

mine cruisers are EXPENSIVE to bring back to decent life... do a search for PZJ75 and look at the tally of expenses i incurred on my rebuild of a similar ex-mine truck... if it is from a potash mine then RUN away. not even worth the engine.

[prado t]

LOL LOL, That thing is a POS if it came from a POTASH hole add water and that shit rusts real bad, stay away from that

[Eric Winkworth]

3500 is cheap for a cruiser even in that shape... but that being said you want to know exactly what you are looking at. I would want to know the compression numbers were good before I gave them any money... Crawl around under the truck checking everything from frame rails to body mounts, check diff lash... all the fluids look for leaks point stuff out and try and get them to drop the price maybe a little...

I still see 70 CDM specs go for nearly 10000 sometimes with almost 300000... and they are rusty and tired too, although most of them left have been road queens there entire lives... I would do the import thing and go with a nice like new RHD truck, whenever my bank account allows that's the way i'm going!!!!

I would be worried about a title for too...

Take it from Wayne, his first hand experience is priceless!!!

[Z()LTAN]

lol i bought 2 hzj75's in way better shape than that for $1500 AUS :P

[lshobie]

3500 - buy it, get a title and put it on the road. Just be prepared to spend alot of money and alot of time on it.

[roscoFJ73]

Originally Posted by lshobie

3500 - buy it, get a title and put it on the road. Just be prepared to spend alot of money and alot of time on it.

If you had a dead 73/74 series it would be easy to swap bodyparts over.
Still might be cheaper to fly to OZ ,buy a HJ75 wih a decent body and engine and ship it home.

[Tonka]

i'm not sure 70 series were built in 1984. if it is 1984 ,it must be one of the first.

I worked in a salt mine in Ireland an underground environment same as a potash mine in North America. We ran Landrovers which had great bodywork (ie theyre made of aluminum) but the steel chasis and components were badly corroded.

Equipment that spent all it life in the mine and never went to the surface stays in a relatively constant tmeperature and low humidity therefore no or little rust. Underground equipment that spent anytime on the surface usually rusted up quickly.

Ive just shipped my 1989 HJ75 from Australia to Ireland. It originally cost me 6000austrlian dollars 2 years ago.

[Tonka]

The HJ75 is verily heavy duty start out of the box, but nothing is miner proof. that truck would have been treated roughly in its career, and with possibly multiple drivers not maintained too rigidly. however it is 1984, to survive that long in any mine it must have been keep good. I once seen a brand new Hilux smeared against the wall in mine. on another occasion I had a loan of the surveyors hilux, drove down the 500m to the bottom of the pit only to discover on the way up that 4WD would not engage. pah. and i had a truck load of Swedish visitors in the back.