Recent content by Mgriz

No worries, the motor was in good shape, lots of life left on the brushes so I got what I needed out of it... It seems to be doing it every time, sometimes it's loud, sometimes just barely noticeable. Since I just switched the motor assemblies, the pinion, starter housing, etc are all the...

Alright, back on the road, almost back to normal. So I ended up getting a used starter (thanks arnott1t) that arrived earlier this week. I bench tested it and unfortunately the solenoid wasn't working... not a big deal, I just swapped the motor over to replace the one on my failed starter...

That would be excellent! I'm not in a big rush (this is Africa after all) but I of course would like to get it back on the road sooner rather than later. Let me know what you find and all we would need to do is get the parts to my fowarding address in Virginia or Washington DC depending on the...

So I disassembled the starter and it's not pretty. It looks like the solenoid plunger slightly welded itself to one of the contacts. This of course caused the starer to run constantly. It looks like this likely caused one of the commutator bars to heat up, expand, and lift up enough to catch...

I don't think that's a dumb question, it's all kind of confusing... I'm sure most of the parts are the same on both versions anyway. The part number should tell you, I believe 28100-17030 is 24v and 28100-17040 is 12v. Mine also has 24v printed under the part number on the Denso tag. It would...

You would think so but I had a hell of a time finding rod ends in ZA a few months ago. Toyota had to order them in from Japan and I must have gone to 6 different parts stores and none of them had any. I ended up actually finding them here in Maputo. I don't really understand it because as you...

Hello there, I'm an American living in Maputo, Mozambique and I've got a 94 HZJ77 that is currently sidelined with a bum starter. Here is a pic for good measure. It just so happens it is from the last time this truck left me stranded, luckily this time I was much closer to home... About a...

Just to follow up on the issue I was having... The truck is back with all the proper fuses in the fuse box and it's running great. Unfortunately I never found a short, I couldn't even reproduce the problem as all the standard fuses are now working fine. I did find that the taillight bulbs I...

Yeah, that's pretty scary! Guess I'll need to trace down the tail light circuit... Any tips on how to hunt down where the extra load in the engine circuit is coming from? It just seemingly appeared out of nowhere, any idea what the likely culprit is? I'd normally resort to breaking out...

Thanks guys! It's not fixed but I was able to make the drive 12hr drive out of the park and back to Maputo without any other issues... Sunday morning the park called a tow truck and we towed it to a shop in the nearest town. We got some wire and from them and tested the solenoid and it...

Hello! I apologize in advance this is going to be brief as I'm on a phone in the middle of nowhere. I have a 94 HZJ77 with a 1HZ, 24v. On my way to our rest camp in Kruger park and it suddenly cut out and I smelt burning. Turns out the engine fuse blew. I replaced it and it blew again as...

Thanks for the heads up, I'll look into changing the tires out when it shows up. They said it has about 50% tread remaining so I don't expect them to last too long...

Hello all! New here, this will be my first post. I’m currently living outside of Atlanta, GA but will soon be relocating to Maputo, Mozambique with my wife for her work. We just purchased a 70 series from Japan that will be imported to Mozambique. It is a 1994 HZJ77 with 156,000 km on the...