My other rig is a Unimog, when I went for insurance the local rep for State Farm said no. I asked to talk to owner of the agency and explained that all my insurance was through State Farm and had been for 35 years. The policy was written the next day.
Yup its got a timing belt. While you are at it order and install a water pump (its hidden behind the timing belt cover) and a set of belts. A nice to have is the gasket for the timing belt cover.
The guys on Car Talk used to talk about a product called fridgi fresh BG Frigi-Fresh® | BG Products, Inc. - https://www.bgprod.com/catalog/climate-control/bg-frigi-fresh/. It was their go to before tearing things apart.
Thanks for the report, the one I bought is still in the box due to other projects. I hope to get it in this summer. I did look at the instructions and components and they looked to be high quality.
The factory flares are still available for most models. There are a couple of big caveats. The fenders need to be drilled and figuring out where to drill would be a major project. My 95 was came drilled with the holes but had some cheap The flares attach with a lot of custom fasteners, the...
Sorry for multiple posts but wanted to keep them straight. While reading through the service manual there is no section on changing shocks only. The only service procedures are removing and replacing both shocks and coils. Is there a reason the coils need to come out to change the shocks?. Maybe...
I got a used Toyota Service Manual and it has both HD and LD sections. I am used to working on Fords and GMs that both have a section on decoding the VIN and chassis tags in the front of the manual but the Toyota version does not.
So my 95 (at least on the US title) LJ70 has coil springs. So...
Well the flares are done after a few months of delays. I also have the factory mud flaps but they will wait until spring.
As for parts sources I bought most from the UAE but needed to source the front flares from Japan as they were out of stock in UAE (more on the front flares later). The only...
Has any one figured out what type of O Ring is used on LJ70s. I seem to have run into more than a few O rings that have dried out and when I try to replace them from a standard metric O ring kit I do not find match. I researched O rings a bit and noticed that there is JIS series of O rings...
Interesting, that looks a lot like the radiator plug which had a leaky ORing that started leaking after I drained the radiator. Definitely one to check.