Be sure and buy the head gasket kit from Toyota, LC Engineering, Yotamasters... don't bother with the online parts people and definitely not anything Amazon.
The FSM is well worth the money. Try and find an original, not one of the reprints on...
What gnob said. There's the larger flanged coarse-thread screws for plastic, you can see that the smaller screws won't even thread into them. A few of the screw holes have metal clips for the screws, they use the larger screws.
The dash pad is...
Netflix show "Boy Swallows Universe" set in Australia sometime in the 80s. One of the characters has a nice grey FJ40, there's several others sprinkled around. If you're an 80s car nerd you'll love it. There's even a Mad Max police car (the...
What size tires are you planning on running? Stock 4.10 gears even with smallish 31" tires makes the truck gutless. You won't be using 5th gear much. It does get old so budget for a gear swap or search for some diffs already setup with the...
That's the beauty of giving Marlin Crawler a call. They will set up a rear differential for you, and you just need to swap it out. Jack up the truck, remove the driveshaft, remove the tires/wheels, brake drums, axle shafts, drain the diff fluid...
Your stock rear axle on your '82 is plenty strong enough, brakes work fine, and you can easily get a rear locker for it without all that huge work just to be able to run a e-locker.
Why not just have Marlin Crawler install a locker on a...