Hello all: friendly, 70 series mod fwker here doing a build.
my love of the 70 series only seems to grow mainly because it’s the only LC that I still learn things about with every iteration I engage.
A bit about me for the new folks:
I’ve been in the LC world now for about 20 years. I worked for Toyota proper for about 6 years in the US market mainly in the spare parts and technical world. I’ve been on the professional side of the Toyota LC world basically since 2007.
I’ve been to Japan and was lucky enough to be a guest of Toyota Auto Body and experienced the manufacture of Toyota Land Cruisers at the historic home Yoshiwara Plant (formerly Arakawa Auto Body/ARACO— wholly owned by Toyota in 2004). It was truly a revelatory trip that solidified my devotion to the Land Cruiser writ large and to the 70 series more specifically.
I made my bones on a 1997 FZJ80 that I properly destroyed before it was cool to do so, restored a 1987 FJ60 that moved on to @bottombracket for a engine conversion that will probably never happen ( ), and my current BJ70-MR JDM iteration
That said, since I blew up my 3B two years ago, figured it would be fun to do a build thread again just for schitts and giggles and fwkall.
You can reference the years of work I did on my old 3B and at the same time my BJ70-MR here if you want the bull**** backstory:
As such: this thread will discuss a quick and dirty BJ70-MR conversion to a PZJ70-MRS
Both are factory vehicles:
BJ70-MR was a JDM iteration available from 10/1984-12/1989 and the PZJ70-MRS was a JDM iteration from 01/1990-12/1993.
Both were JDM iterations only (in this designation) factory soft top, short wheel base, standard/base model Toyota Land Cruiser. Both were 24v electrical. Both were your classic LC setups from this time period.
I will be breaking no new ground here; I will be doing nothing interesting or revelatory here; I will be doing nothing worthy of anything beyond this quick thread to document my work mainly for myself because I’m getting old and my memory is fading and it’s nice to have some documentation of stuff just in case I kick the bucket and @cruiserdan gets to inherit my truck and will know what the fwk I did.
As such, let’s begin with my truck:
my love of the 70 series only seems to grow mainly because it’s the only LC that I still learn things about with every iteration I engage.
A bit about me for the new folks:
I’ve been in the LC world now for about 20 years. I worked for Toyota proper for about 6 years in the US market mainly in the spare parts and technical world. I’ve been on the professional side of the Toyota LC world basically since 2007.
I’ve been to Japan and was lucky enough to be a guest of Toyota Auto Body and experienced the manufacture of Toyota Land Cruisers at the historic home Yoshiwara Plant (formerly Arakawa Auto Body/ARACO— wholly owned by Toyota in 2004). It was truly a revelatory trip that solidified my devotion to the Land Cruiser writ large and to the 70 series more specifically.
I made my bones on a 1997 FZJ80 that I properly destroyed before it was cool to do so, restored a 1987 FJ60 that moved on to @bottombracket for a engine conversion that will probably never happen ( ), and my current BJ70-MR JDM iteration
That said, since I blew up my 3B two years ago, figured it would be fun to do a build thread again just for schitts and giggles and fwkall.
You can reference the years of work I did on my old 3B and at the same time my BJ70-MR here if you want the bull**** backstory:
Builds - 1985 JDM 3B Engine Rebuild and Other Stories
Well, since crap hit the fan, figure it is time to do this correctly. I was planning on a head rebuild only but when I pulled head and cleaned up pistons, all 4 were cracked unfortunately. So off to the races we go. This thread will document the head and block rebuild. IP has already been...
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As such: this thread will discuss a quick and dirty BJ70-MR conversion to a PZJ70-MRS
Both are factory vehicles:
BJ70-MR was a JDM iteration available from 10/1984-12/1989 and the PZJ70-MRS was a JDM iteration from 01/1990-12/1993.
Both were JDM iterations only (in this designation) factory soft top, short wheel base, standard/base model Toyota Land Cruiser. Both were 24v electrical. Both were your classic LC setups from this time period.
I will be breaking no new ground here; I will be doing nothing interesting or revelatory here; I will be doing nothing worthy of anything beyond this quick thread to document my work mainly for myself because I’m getting old and my memory is fading and it’s nice to have some documentation of stuff just in case I kick the bucket and @cruiserdan gets to inherit my truck and will know what the fwk I did.
As such, let’s begin with my truck: