1997 40th Anniversary Land Cruiser
-1FZFE in-line 6
-256,225 miles
-clean title in hand
- no rust but color and clear coat are fading in areas
-all doors, hood, etc have original factory stickers (nothing has been replaced)
- frame is in excellent shape. I treated it with wool wax while I drive...
Price. Unless there are major red flags to using JDM motors. Landcruiser heaven has JDM’s for $3,600 and under 275k.
My 1FZFE started knocking real bad back in spring. I parked it and haven’t started trouble shooting or taking it apart yet due to job situation. Now that my job is lined out...
I have a 97 LC with an engine that may need swapped out. If I were to source a JDM spec motor from landcruiser heaven would it be a simple “one for one” swap or would I run into wiring harness and electrical readout issues since the JDM spec motor does not have an ERG ?
I am leaning much harder towards a swap out of a lower mileage 1FZFE, finding a rebuilt 1FZFE to swap it out with (believe I saw someone selling rebuilt long blocks on here), or attempting to rebuild it myself.
If I can find an el cheapo daily driver in the interim then that will make the...
Received the oil analysis results (shown below). I have no knowledge or experience with oil analyses but the comments sections describes elevated levels of aluminum, steal, and tin.
I may be replacing the 1FZFE on my 97 in the near future. Either a “new” 1FZFE with current tranny or swapping out to “new” manual tranny at the same time.
My current exhaust has a small leak under the passenger side (between 02 sensor and headers). Figured I’d be ahead to just replace the...
My 1997 FZFE developed a knock last Friday on my way home from work. The odd thing to me is that it did not have any audible precursors (at least none that I picked up on). The truck lost power three times within a mile of the house. The knock now starts at initial start up and is very obvious...