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Complete split case parking brake setup taken from a late FJ45. Very hard to find Needs shoes, output seal, and parking brake shoe hardware which is all available new. Drum surface is a bit rough be can be turned, or replaced with a new drum...

Ian, at the game I was still contemplating finding someone to TIG one from scratch! I found this HDJ80 exhaust just a couple of days ago.

@dogfishlake weird, ain’t it? FT intercooler and HDT/FT HDJ 80 exhaust? Got it. Prado 150 exhaust? Got it. Toyota Starlet turbo and manifold? Got it. Everything else for every other Land Cruiser we usually drive and love. Don’t got it. I will...

And a 17” piece of 3” diameter 304 tubing and a band clamp was $40 from Amazon. Maybe we are one TIG weld away from usable exhaust? I won’t be able to work on it until the weekend.

On @gifu ‘s suggestion I picked up a 95-97 FZJ80 air cleaner lid instead of the HDJ80 lid I am running. Better flow always wins.

I’ve been trying to figure out the best exhaust solution. Seeing how the truck is an 80 series that’s just 14 inches longer, I rolled the dice on a 3 inch exhaust that popped up as available in the US. Unicorn Power Systems offers a 3 inch...

I know nothing about these transfer cases, but this is an awesome project. Watching closely because it seems so cool.

I would bet the R351 would have commonality with the 1996+ R150F and use the same center section so you could swap tail housings as needed. A R150F tail housing with a right side drop VF1A chain driven transfer case could be a mostly bolt...

Brand new OEM 1HD-T air cleaner lid. 17705-17010. Located in Canada, $80 USD plus shipping.

Manual Transmission shift bezel for LHD 80 series I’ve been getting these NLA shift bezels reproduced for our manual transmission swaps. They look identical to factory. Comes with shift boot. Fits the later trim 1995-1997 Also available on our...

Jeff, both are LHD. I’ll double check part numbers. I have a spare rear harness. Maybe I can sub that in. The transmission harness for the front tank is brand new too.

@Matt Sierra I built one from scratch. But it has the wrong circuit trace - it’s from an HDJ79 - so it is mostly useless. I think this is the fourth cluster in total, when I make sure that this works I can then go back and reuse all the shiny...

I mixed and matched cluster parts and finally found one where everything works except the fuel gauges. I replaced the kmh speedometer overlay with the mph overlay from the cluster I had built. I checked and replaced all the lightbulbs. For...

I redid the intercooler piping with 3” on the hot side and clamped it all down. Violet approves, though she would like to go to bed.

Your truck looks amazing.

2018 Corolla IM same as Toyota 86. Truck is made up of many Toyota models and years

We did another road test and headed to the gas station to fill up. Interestingly, the rear tank kept foaming and filling up… So I stopped trying to fill it. When I got back to the ranch I took the rubber fuel hose off and found a giant mouse...

More progress today. My friend Kevin, the greatest x-ray tech the world has ever known, stopped by for a few hours. I extended the 79 series parking brake to reach the wider 80 series axle. I mocked up a simple extension bracket. I’ll build a...

Fueling it up and confirming the second tank reads correctly.

I couldn’t help myself. I took it out on the road for its first ever test drive- just a just a quarter mile down to the corner gas station and back, but it sure felt good. After seven years, I’ve got a running, driving, titled truck built from...

Made progress tonight. I got all of the intercooler piping built. I’m about five hose clamps away, but I feel safe taking it on the road now and not sucking rocks, dirt, or bugs into the engine or turbo.

Reminds me of an old joke about a back country fellow that bought his first chainsaw. After about a week of ownership he brought the saw back to the dealer. He said this saw sucked. It didn't cut worth a damn. The salesman said "let me look...

Well, friends, back at it a week later. We miss Nate terribly, but the pain is starting to ease a little. You know what? The speed sensor works a lot better if it has a gear on it. I don’t know why I just assumed that the sensor magically...

I rather unexpectedly lost this guy about two months ago. I miss him every day and I still find his fur in my Land Cruiser because of all the time we spent in it together.

We said goodbye to Natey this weekend. He was the best boy and a true Cruiser dog.