Recent content by INailedIt

Awesome project!

I'm not sure why my pictures are being shown sideways and or upside-down. Sorry about that. Any suggestions would be great!

Finally had some time to do a little investigating. Took a few minutes to look at the engine and see if I could get the motor to turn over. Sadly, no luck. I couldn't get the engine rotate. wouldn't even budge at all. I was concerned that there was going to be water or dirt inside the cylinders...

Thanks, I did a quick search and found some very useful manuals in another thread. Thanks again.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a good repair manual for an FJ55? Google searches keep popping up with Haynes book number 92055 for land cruisers. Is this worth purchasing or is there a better option available?

Awesome! Thanks for sending this over, I really appreciate it.

Anyone know why my pictures keep getting turned sideways and how to fix them?

When I bought Mr Rusty the starter had been removed and it was set in the battery tray. I have looked everywhere for the missing bolts and/or nut and cannot find them. Does anyone know what size bolt I need for the bottom of the starter? Any help is appreciated.

Ok, so now that I have somewhere to put all of this. I have tons of questions: First, when the factory painted these, did they caulk the seam between the fender and the apron? ( I think that is what it is called?). Or is this some type of gasket that is installed between the panels? I cannot...

It's been 3 weeks since I purchased my 1973 FJ55 Land Cruiser (AKA Mr Rusty). I purchased this from Facebook, mostly because of childhood memories of my Dads 75 FJ55. We took a lot of camping and family trips in that old cruiser. I bought Mr Rusty with the plan of slowly fixing it up over the...

Thanks, I’ll create a new thread to help track my progress. I have so many questions about my FJ55. Glad to have found this forum.

Wow! Thanks for all the information. I’ll take a look for the engine number next to the starter this weekend. I’ve been looking around the ih8mud site and realized that I probably need to move this conversation to the FJ55 forum. I’ll get a thread stated over there later this week. Thanks

Hello everybody. First time pig owner. I was looking around ih8mud and realized I may have posted my introduction in the wrong forum so I thought I should come over here and start off on the right foot. Here goes: 1973 FJ55 1F motor 3speed Factory AC Looks mostly original. Except the...

Thanks everyone. According to the door tag, my FJ55 was built in February of 1973. I had never heard of a 1.5 F engine until the guy I bought it from mentioned that it had one. I thought it weird at the time, but considering the number of Land Cruisers, he had sitting around his shop. I assumed...

the spark plug was sitting in the battery tray when I bought it. It's the only spark plug that came with Rusty. The starter was also sitting in the tray. my fear is that the motor is siezed, but I haven't had time to confirm. All the spark plugs have been removed, I don't know how long ago, but...