I've become quite enamored with the Toyota OEM winch, having bought several old ones and a few new ones for the various projects I have going on. One thing I have not done until now is to really dig into the wiring. I've looked here and not found a comprehensive description of how to deal with...
Hi friends. I mentioned in the intro channel a couple of weeks ago bidding on a green V6 95. I was doing this for a good friend of mine @lostmind that I have somehow dragged into this crazy pastime, I am sure very much against his better judgment. Anyways we got it at a reasonable price and...
I don't know about you but I hate floppy HVAC registers in old cars. I've found that the side registers were available but not the center one. I did have one whose vanes were ok but up and down they flopped all over the place.
The culprit was these little black bearing points:
They were...
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I've got a couple of 3 spoke 80 series steering wheels I need to recover. First for the Holy Truck, and then the Omani Diesel. I've been doing steering wheels every year or so for a while and I thought I would try something different this time--making my own pattern. I may...
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I just collected Mister Blue, a 2003 105, to daily for a week or two before it goes back in. I parked the truck right after inspection and registration for fear of a timing belt failure. This poor old truck has been out in the UAE sun for a long time and all the rubber has gone bad...
Hi everyone. I'm actually in Langley awaiting the release of the 105 from the port. I'm stuggling just a bit with the import tech requirements, notably the daylight running lights. I'd really prefer not to cut into the harness to add the little black box and I've been told that it may simply...
One of the fellows that I have bought several diesel starters and steering pumps from called me the other day to ask if I would be interested in this:
I was really busy last week taking care of a few final items before shipping out a truck to Canada, and also expecting delivery of a new truck...
I am still working on the name for this truck, but for the time being I am using Azraq, which is the translation of 'blue' into Arabic. I like the name but I'd like to suggest age as in Ol' Blue as this poor truck has been through some stuff.
Some of you may have seen my posts about the white...
Hi all, I have mentioned and occasionally provided photo of a 1997 Omani diesel 80 that was sourced by a friend in Oman. Looking back now I see that it was in mid 2020 in the height of the pandemic, and I bought it sight unseen from Virginia. I'd gotten a taste for diesel Land Cruisers and put...
Hi all, I'm getting deep into the parts buying phase for the work on my little Prado rescue and I'm stumped with regard to the back door window glass. I did find a couple of non-Toyota manual pages ... in Russian... that seem to cover it and suggest there is something going on very complicated...
12.5K USD as-is, where-is, but I will help you sort shipping from Dubai to wherever. Current costs are variable I'd budget 5 or 6k USD to continental US. If nobody is interested here, I am going to send it back to Emirates Auction. I expect it to bring this or better at auction since it runs...
Although there are a lot of threads about this, I could not find the information I was looking for, so I thought I would share the information I've collected in the hopes that others may find it useful and easier to find.
I am faced with a leaky windshield on the Holy Truck.
At first I...
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I watch Emirates Auction from time to time looking for interesting vehicles, and this one looked to be a find--from the listing and photos. With due respect to EA for also posting its inspection report which listed some serious concerns. I got interested enough to go out and look...
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I've been working on a 1FZ truck I call the 'Holy Truck' for the past 6 months or so and I ran into a real snag--finding a new fuel level float sensor / sender. New OEM ones seem unobtainable and I have not found a used on on the local market here in Dubai.
ToyoDIY says the following...
I've got a problem. Some of the window surrounds, particularly on the windows for the barn doors of my 80's are really hard to get. I am about to receive a left window but the right, larger window has delivery times measured in weeks and weeks. I'm able to buy complete doors for about 100 USD...
This is my first post in the 90 Series forum. I've been interested in these trucks since we got our 2.8 liter four-banger1991 Model 77 which was called a 'Prado' in some markets.
A few weeks ago I was looking at a local auction site and saw a pitiful little truck that was just so, so...
I apologize for the click bait, but I could not resist...
I've spent the last couple of days pulling stuff from a donor 80 in preparation for having the junk man come and drag off the remainder. The last thing is the roof.
I made a mistake recently at an auction for a manual transmission 80...
So I'm driving around a bit (finally) in the RHD to LHD converted HDJ81 and it has an intermittent starting problem. A good fraction of the time when I turn the key I get a buzz but no crank. Batteries are fully charged and in the green.
Originally we thought it was the switchover relay...
Hi all, it has been a minute since I posted in the 100 forum. Dhanno, my US-UAE-US truck is being used by the friend of my older boy and likely it will stay with him. And I'm getting ready to leave Dubai and move back to the US and take it a little easier. For some time I've searched for an...
Hi all. I did some searching here but did not come up with anything touching on my particular issue.
It is a 1997 with a 1HD that I brought in from Oman to Dubai. Not a speed demon but I really like the truck. I am however, thinking that something is a bit off.
With the pedal to the floor...