IH8MUD.com - CO- Colorado Land Cruisers http://forum.ih8mud.com/ en Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:30:12 GMT vBulletin 15 http://images.ih8mud.com/images/misc/rss.jpg IH8MUD.com - CO- Colorado Land Cruisers http://forum.ih8mud.com/ Tansfer cases http://forum.ih8mud.com/co-colorado-land-cruisers/334872-tansfer-cases.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:19:04 GMT Hey everyboby this is JT (new member) trying to get some info on what t-case is best to use with... Hey everyboby this is JT (new member) trying to get some info on what t-case is best to use with 350 v8 in a fj60. I should have the engine and trans in a couple weeks. I can get a chevy 205 or 208, or is it better to just use original trany and t-case. Wanting to compile everything (info/parts) i need before tackling this project. I am shooting for like Jan to do this and have it done by end of feb. SOA start in march hopefully done by june or so. Anybody that would like to give me some insite it would be greatly acepted. Once again thanks and cant wait to hit the trails. I am gonna be at the X-mas tree runs 6th and 13th. hope to see ya'll there.

JT:beer: :hhmm: = :beer::beer::beer::clap: ]]> CO- Colorado Land Cruisers GATORSJT http://forum.ih8mud.com/co-colorado-land-cruisers/334872-tansfer-cases.html <![CDATA[FJ60 lovin' - work]]> http://forum.ih8mud.com/co-colorado-land-cruisers/334675-fj60-lovin-work.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:12:55 GMT Whats up guys, after seeing the turn out at last nights meeting, i was blown away with the... Whats up guys,

after seeing the turn out at last nights meeting, i was blown away with the turnou.. i know thats not a regular occurance at your meets - so i hear, however it encouraged me to ask about some Land Cruiser help.

I figure there's someone on here that would be knowledgeable / willing to help me pull the carb, head, and help me re assemble them after they come back from re-building.

ive got a garage and tools, im quite mechanically inclined, ive just never ripped into a 2F before.

so, if any of you fellas are willing to volunteer some :wrench::wrench::wrench::wrench: time, the beer would be on me - i'd love to have some help taking the carb off to send to Jim C, and sending the head to a machine shop to have the valves redone, head decked and putting an new headgasket in there as well. normally i'd just go about this myself, but considering i dont wanna be re-doing head gaskets several times i wouldnt mind someone there to give a hand that knows how to do the job right.

any volunteers?

:beer: + FJ60 + :wrench::wrench: = :hillbilly:

Regards,

Milo ]]> CO- Colorado Land Cruisers Miloslavich http://forum.ih8mud.com/co-colorado-land-cruisers/334675-fj60-lovin-work.html November CLC Meeting http://forum.ih8mud.com/co-colorado-land-cruisers/333370-november-clc-meeting.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:58:46 GMT Please join us for the November meeting on the 17th. Interesting discussions, sparkling... Please join us for the November meeting on the 17th. Interesting discussions, sparkling conversation, LandCruiser tales of all sorts. We are meeting in the NEW Liberty Toyota building that is 2 blocks East and 1 Block South of the intersection of Austin Bluffs and Woodman. Time is 7:00 pm. We are in the upstairs training room. When you enter the building head to your left and find the stairway. We are at the last room on your right down the upstairs hallway.

Meeting Format:

Old Business:
Vote on the location of the Christmas Party. (Current nomination is Fire House Barbeque)
Discuss Christmas Tree cutting weekend volunteering.

New Business:


Discussion:



The Vice Pres. is running the meeting.

David ]]> CO- Colorado Land Cruisers LCPilot http://forum.ih8mud.com/co-colorado-land-cruisers/333370-november-clc-meeting.html China wall got graded. http://forum.ih8mud.com/co-colorado-land-cruisers/333186-china-wall-got-graded.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:28:18 GMT was bumming around on coloradofourwheelers.org......In the "what were they thinking" department.......apparently the forest service took a bulldozer to China wall and you could drive a honda civic through there now. Reports say that 204a is closed also.......travesty........now all the idiots with normal vehicles will go there and the camping area will be devastated and the trees all half chopped up with an axe. Sad. ]]> CO- Colorado Land Cruisers black95 http://forum.ih8mud.com/co-colorado-land-cruisers/333186-china-wall-got-graded.html Toyota Rear Suspension Build Up http://forum.ih8mud.com/co-colorado-land-cruisers/331546-toyota-rear-suspension-build-up.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:29:14 GMT Hello Everyone!

It's great to be back in the land of the living! In april of last year I decided to do a triagulated four link rear coil set-up from scratch in my garage. My friend Dustin wanted to learn how to fab and weld, and sice he"s still young and strong as an ox, i enlisted his help and away we went! I should stop here to mention that the economy played a huge role in the amount of time it took to get this done. Thanks Wall Street!

Dustin and I decided that we were going to make as many parts from scratch as possible so all we bought was Johnny Joints, TJ front coil springs, Urethane bushings, mounting tabs for the links and an a** load of steel, mig wire, and welding gas. All we had to work with was a good mig, chop saw, grinder, cut off wheels, and an oxy/acetelyne torch. this was a really low budget / garage build. That being said, i believe I'd commit murder for lots of money and all the cool fab tools you see on TV!

After lots of torching, grinding, chiseling, and cussing Dustin and i got everything out of the way and started fabbing it all back together. I gotta say that i forgot how much I hate math! Anyway, Dustin and I burned quite a few saturdays just making parts before we ever even started welding anything to the frame. One saturday, Dustin spent 9 hours straight on the welder while I was busy making parts. All of the big parts went together nice and easy but as they say, the devil is in the details. I think we spent more time on gussets, and detail pats than anything else.

So with hunting season looming we managed to get the toy done and of course it's first run was hunting season. The first day i managed to snap both lower shock mounts clean off because of the amount of travel the suspension has, though I'm blaming Dustin cause he built them! That was the only glitch that I had Everything works the way it's supposed to. Maybye a little too well, I had to run back into town with no shocks and I gotta say that those rear coils are soft.

The rear coils have settled about two inches now, so I'll have to correct that, and I need to relocate my upper shock mounts as well. I have a slight interference issue between the shocks and the upper links, but other than that I'm vey happy with the way it turned out. I'm gonna try to upload some build pics.
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]]> CO- Colorado Land Cruisers supercharlie http://forum.ih8mud.com/co-colorado-land-cruisers/331546-toyota-rear-suspension-build-up.html Need a little help. http://forum.ih8mud.com/co-colorado-land-cruisers/331458-need-little-help.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:56:55 GMT Guys,
I've been converting the FJ40 for power steering, I'm stuck, I can't use the pitman arm that came with the 4runner steering box, it bumps into the bracket at the ends, so I was going to use the pitman arm off the manual steering box, got the bolt off but getting the arm off is becoming a labor in futility, I already broke a 3 arm puller. Does anybody have an Idea of how to get the arm off? I don't have a hydraulic press. Thanks ]]> CO- Colorado Land Cruisers FJ005 http://forum.ih8mud.com/co-colorado-land-cruisers/331458-need-little-help.html