My Dad taught me to use a timing light. Later an old school mechanic told me of another option. (1) Fill it with the octane you normally use. (2) Set the timing to the book or your best guess. (3) Drive it under heavy load, say on a hill or with the hardest acceleration you would use...
Use a "flare nut wrench" rather than a standard open end wrench. They are specifically designed for that type fitting.
They have a lot more contact with the hex fitting to spread the torque load - so less tendency to round it off or to slip.
85 FJ60 was well tweaked by a couple of previous owners.
Some non-US parts include:
--rear sliders
--clinometer
--mirrors
--air cleaner and plumbing from a diesel to hook up the snorkel
Aftermarket stuff:
--ARB cowcatcher
--rear bumper with spare carrier and ladder
--Wilderness roof rack...
Some cruiser parts outfit makes a license plate bracket that mounts via the spare wheel lugnuts.
Darned if I can remember which outfit that is.
Edit: The one I recall looked like the spare tire mount jerry can bracket base sold by SOR and Man-A-Fre but the outer plate was set up for a lic...
235-85R-16 is 32" tall. To me, a good compromise.
Big tires put more load on steering components. Can put more load on your arms and make you think of adding power steering.
I have not looked at it hard but Airgas and Liquid Carbonic both mention the process on their websites in the context of them being suppliers of dry ice pellets used in the blasters.
Back when I looked at it there were two types of blasters: one used purpose made dry ice pellets and the other...
This is a long shot but if you can find an outfit that has a dry ice blaster it might work real well.
It's like a sand blaster but uses dry ice pellets. The process was developed to strip paint from aircraft without damaging the aluminum skin. The other benefit is the only residue is paint...
Only way I know to check tube fit is to put the tube in the tire (with tire completely dismounted or only the bottom bead on the wheel). Then air the tube up just enough to take the wrinkles out of the tube. This method is good for an oversize or stretched out tube. For an undersize tube it...
--Your wheel photo is of a conventional drop center type. The other three are the same?
--If those are tubeless tires the inside of the tire may have molded in roughness that is wearing holes in the tubes. Tires designed as tube type had fairly smooth interiors.
--Tube type tires are just as...
I worked in a truck stop tire shop. This was back when 90% of the trucks used tube type tires on lock ring wheels.
Some of owner/operators preferred to use an inner tube that was one width size smaller than the tire. e.g. use a 9.00 x 20 tube in a 10.00 x 20 tire. This was done to reduce the...
Unless you spend a lot of time in sand and need the flotation you might consider smaller wheels & tires. Takes more energy to get big ones up to speed and to stop them. Causes higher loads on steering components resulting in faster wear out. If the differentials were not regeared to...
You guys down under seem to have a lot of those wheels - they are scarce in the states. Maybe that's why your tire men don't have a fit when you bring one in.
If the tire is not rusted to the wheel to me it's easier to breakdown and reassemble a lock ring wheel than a tubeless.
And patching...
Thanks for the back-up.
Not my intent to be a semantics dick about this. But I do wonder why anyone would chose to be wrong when it's easy to be right.
We need to bear in mind most of the guys working in a tire shop ain't there because they want a career as a professional tire man. They will...
Here's why the terminology is important - in 1977 true split rims were already rare but we did see them occasionally. I'm 67 and am the last generation to actually work on these things on a regular basis. I worked on conventional lock ring type semi tires every day.
Now it's 40 years and a...
The Toyota design is not a split rim.
The lock ring flange under the tire bead is a good thing. However, the only feature that prevents the lock ring from blowing off the wheel is positive engagement between the lock ring lip and its mating groove in the wheel.
A rusted out wheel or lock ring...