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[seapotato]

Mine ran clear too, but doesn’t mean I got the crap out of the bottom. it wouldn’t flow
so it only was hot as it circulated left to right along the top. When I flipped it and got the crap
stuck to bottom I have to admit my cabin heat does encourage the word hot.
have you ever used caustic cleaners or acids to scour heater core internals?

Yeah we use descalers at work all the time.

Coil didn't seem bad in this case. Water blasting in one side blasted out the other.

Was only a bit of brown anti freeze, and I attributed that to those cheapass Bradfords pissing in the rad after drinking moonshine.

Top tanks on the cores look to be split so it can't cross over, has to travel down to the bottom tank and back up. Not much of a coil when you think of the square footage it's supposed to heat.

 

[cruiserpilot]

I switched mine with a 3B BJ60 core, so small like the FJ60. HJ61 are bigger cores.
Did not know that, didn’t think about it.
Whats the safest descaler aside from muriatic acid? Just vinegar and baking soda
probably?

 

[seapotato]

Might just be because my truck is an 88, maybe they changed them all? Heater core I'm using is from an 83 bj60.

HJ's about 1/2-3/4" thicker, the other dimensions looked the same but I couldn't say for sure. Too thick was a show stopper so I didn't go any further with it.

Was poking around, and copper pipe does slide into the heater core where the orings are. Trick would be soldering on a washer that the retaining clip could hang onto...

That'll be next if my bastardized plumbing yardsale solution springs a leak...

The O-rings on mine broke when I touched them, so I'm surprised it wasn't leaking more.

On descalers, I'm not sure. I don't like muriatic but I suspect it's the active ingredient in a lot of them. Most have that nose hair curling smell.

Vinegar I find is good for turning steel black if you want patina on an axe head or something.

We have some that are allegedly safe for ice machines, a packet of powder like tang (strong lemon smell) you don't even want to know how much that s*** costs per bag.

It'd be cheaper to buy a new heater core...and one ice machine is supposed to get 3 bags every 3 months

 

[cruiserpilot]

I think the heater cores are obsolete. I think. There are aftermarket but without
knowing actual dimensions it is a crap shoot ordering.

 

[seapotato]

Yeah, I read somewhere that a guy bought the last hard line to a heater core in existence from Toyota, and that was a while ago.

I might poke around with the 61 core at making a copper fitting to fit.


Grabbed a toyota silver spray bomb, but it's way too silver. Doesn't actually look any different than the weld through primer to me.

Guess mine is champagne or something. I have a can of paint I got mixed years ago for touching up a different truck, it's called beige, but just looks poo brown to me. Meh. Silver is better than blue.

Truck needed a few more colours of paint applied with indifferent skill and poor surface prep anyways.

Started putting some more s*** back together. Needed fenders to mount relays etc and make sure things were long enough.

I took the diaper out of the fender, but I was too lazy to paint it white.

I did douche it with this stuff, the nozzle that works in every direction is pretty slick.

Also greased all the mating surfaces and never sneezed the ever loving **** out of everything, so as usual, it'll be a rolling ecological disaster.

Interesting with the gauges, I think these are unhanded when the installer gets them, and he breaks off the tab that isn't needed depending on which hand drive it ends up.

Had thought I'd have to break off the other one and then glue it somehow to hold the top in, but swapping sides works. Even when going from new dash style to old style it all fits.

Reasonably sure everything will still reach, speedo cable would be the only question, with a flipped harness, the way it was on the other side the speedo was in the outboard pod, so the wiring will be the right length.

I don't think the speedo being on the left will bother me, might bother some.

I'm sure swmbo will mention it when she eventually drives it.

I've been waiting to hear back from a shop about my ps line, so I haven't gotten too carried away making mess. I need to get underneath and see whether I can reroute the rear harness to reach, but I don't feel like having greasy rusty crap raining down on my face today.

I'm going to have to probably swap some wires around for my turn signals, because I suspect at least one end of the truck is going to be backwards or upside down or some ****in thing....

Some folks might find that confusing when I'm making a turn.

 

[cruiserpilot]

I like that, 180 - wishful thinking.

 

[seapotato]

Got the clip together, put the batteries in and threw some volts around...

Everything kinda halfway didn't work on the multi switch, plugged in the original rhd switch and everything worked.

And then Alice went into the rabbit hole...deep, deep into the rabbit hole.

 

[cruiserpilot]

If you mess that up really bad I might have a couple lying on the floor of the shed

 

[seapotato]

If you mess that up really bad I might have a couple lying on the floor of the shed

Thanks, I have a second one in case I duffed it, but seems like it's only the wipers that were different. 5 wires on bj60 vs 4 on hj.

It got intense for a while there, lots of soldering and moving contact points, but it works.

Had to swap left and right turn pins in the connector, it was blinking upside down.
Figuring out the dash indicators will have to wait till I start the lump.

Just finished moving the rear harness across, one lead from the wheel well I'll have to stretch. Fuel gauge I think?

Dealing with this now.

We'll see if that fancy s*** works.

 

[seapotato]

I'd almost forgotten (or blocked out) what a colossal pain in the girly parts putting doors on a 60 is.

I guess the correct procedure is to remove the fenders first but who the hell wants to do that just to take a door off???

Anyways they're back on.
starting to look like a truck again and not a basket case.

The fancy s*** works.

Just have to sort out the sunroof now. Leaning towards making a jumper cable to run across inside the dash. I have a junk bj60 harness, think I can find the right connectors in there so I can do it without cutting anything.

Only doing that because I don't want to **** up the headliner. It's the stretched felt type. Pretty hard to put back once it's pulled out.

Might not do much today. There's just finishing work now, and I'm waiting on my ps hose and a windshield anyways, so it'll be the end of the week regardless.

Been looking into 24v stereos. Blaupunkt make a few. Plus theres the basic industrial equipment ones.

Bit more money, but might be worth it.
It'd be nice to skip all that 24/12 converter bull**** this time around.

 

[GTSSportCoupe]

Looking really good! So many little things that need attention that I'd never really thought about. Still can't believe the momentum you've maintained on this project.

After following your thread, going LHD is something that won't be happening to my LJ! Haha. I've already put too much effort into the truck for what it is.

 

[seapotato]

Looking really good! So many little things that need attention that I'd never really thought about. Still can't believe the momentum you've maintained on this project.

After following your thread, going LHD is something that won't be happening to my LJ! Haha. I've already put too much effort into the truck for what it is.

Yeah it's funny, tennant asked me what the hardest thing was, nothing was really that difficult, bodywork portion was easy. It's just the sheer volume of s*** that needs doing.

Literally everything.

So yeah I figured this was the kind of project that could easily get away from you and start to drag on if I didn't giver for a week or two.


Last thing I want is for it to become a standard @Rigpig project, with his mandatory 5-10 years sitting untouched under a tarp.

 

[Rigpig]

Nah, i leave it open to the elements, they rust faster under a tarp. Besides, the neighbours appreciate seeing it on a trailer, it adds to the ambiance.

 

[stevebradford]

the neighbours appreciate seeing it on a trailer, it adds to the ambiance.

Agreed. The neighbour down the road has three dead Trans Am’s, Got to keep it classy.

 

[cruiserpilot]

That's what?? $14-16K on Bring a Trailer!

 

[seapotato]

Agreed. The neighbour down the road has three dead Trans Am’s, Got to keep it classy.
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Nothing says Langford like a dead Trans am

I assume he sports a luxurious mustache?

Or at least what might become a luxurious mustache if he didn't singe it on the pipe constantly...

I have a neighbor with a Willis Jeep truck in his hedge, so cedar likes it's yard art too.

I actually kinda hate having dead vehicles in the yard.

Anyone want a s*** 91 Celica with douchebag rims?

I make you best price

 

[Rigpig]

That's what?? $14-16K on Bring a Trailer!

...or $25-30k on usedvic.

 

[seapotato]

Closer. Got the sunroof working this morning. My witchpiss softened brain didn't like it.

Installed the 61 hsh for swmbo, and had to use the cooler looking glove box door.

No idea what all that s*** says. Probably has "driver is an a******" hidden in there somewhere

I think the only light on the dash I still need to figure out is the 4wd light. Not 100% sure the vac shift setup is working, kinda need vacuum and I don't want to start the lump until the ps hose is done.

I need to put a kit in the tcase, think I'll do away with that vacuum bull**** when I do.

Lot of crap just so some marketing **** could say "push button 4x4"

Just stuck the wheel on there so I can guesstimate how much to bend the shifter over closer to the wheel. That'll be a night shift job with the torch and wet rags.

Not a ton left, but the pressure is off seeing as I can't get a windshield till next week, so I have lots of time to deal with the annoying glitches that I'm sure will pop up.

 

[cruiserpilot]

So you keeping the four square lights?

 

[seapotato]

So you keeping the four square lights?

No reason to change them?