Builds 1974 Pua'a (5 Viewers)

[gonzopancho]

Cold pig. I assume this is in Aspen, when @FryingPansterdam owned it. Post 2014, pre-2017.

 

[bobm]

There's a video somewhere of 1st drive too

 

[gonzopancho]

There's a video somewhere of 1st drive too

There are two videos on YouTube. Kinda Before & After. Great documentation on the build, in addition to the build thread. The “first drive” is at the 4:00 mark of Part 2. In the video, and some of the pics, the truck is rolling on 37s, which I think look amazing.

At the end of the build the original 33s went back on, because @Cruiser Innovations was selling it. Also kinda amazing that those same 33” tires on 15” steel wheels (from 2008) are still on the truck.

Cruiser Innovations 1974 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ55 (The Iron Pig) Part (1 of 2)

Cruiser Innovations built 1974 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ55 (The Iron Pig) (2 of 2)

 

[onemanarmy]

About time for some front-side marker lights!

 

[gonzopancho]

About time for some front-side marker lights!

Yup.
And tie the DS fender back to the body.

But first the tailgate.

 

[PabloCruise]

Yes. The one picture where the test light isn't lit was just to show that I stuck the probe in the 'S' socket. The test light in that picture is connected to +12VDC, and wouldn't light until someone presses the horn button. My arms aren't long enough to reach from the PS fender to the steering wheel.

Everything checks out except the relay, which doesn't work. I took the lid off, applied 12V to 'B', and connected 'S' to the negative post on the battery, and the coil doesn't energize.

Were they hand-winding these in Japan back in the day, or did someone try to fix it? Doesn't look machine-wound.

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Walked the dogs, wife complained that the DS mirror on her 62 shakes a bit. It's always something, right?

Continuity across the coil?

 

[PabloCruise]

That's awesome! My memory has gotten so bad, it seems to happen more that I want to admit. Except I order the new part before I find the one I ordered first.

Glad I am not the only one that does that! Once these projects drag on over several years, and other projects come into play, I lose track of where I was on a certain idea...

 

[PabloCruise]

Found on Reddit. Posted by the guy who bought it from @Cruiser Innovations. Picture taken around mid-2014 near St Vrain Rd and Hwy 36 in Boulder, CO. I plan to recreate it some day.

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Try to get that cool UFO-looking cloud in the sky too!

 

[gonzopancho]

Continuity across the coil?

Took it apart, looked like someone hand-wound it long ago.

 

[gonzopancho]

Slight diversion. Took a week off in CO to visit the kid. Getting tired of driving the Taco up and back. Hope to have a pig to drive on the highway someday.

Came back to some stuff that the employees picked up that I bought just before I left. You can't see the Kurt vices here, and there is a bunch I'm not showing, but... just in-case there is a bit of (small scale) sheet metal work or parts clean-up to do... (like the mill, some of it was free. Hopefully not "free like a puppy".)

Speaking of the mill, it's getting closer to being up and running in a production mode. Seems everything takes forever to schedule these days.

 

[RUSH55]

Is this to start reproducing FJ55 sheetmetal?

 

[scrapdaddy]

Nice stuff! Kurt vises are one of the best. I bought a 6" Kurt at a shop auction for $50, they had two pallets of them. What kind of production are you doing?

 

[gonzopancho]

What kind of production are you doing?

Call it “something I always wanted to be able to do” (and now that I’m getting closer to retiring, maybe I’ll have time).

Looking for ideas. Tailgate handles has been proposed.

 

[gonzopancho]

Is this to start reproducing FJ55 sheetmetal?

No. That brake / roller combo isn’t big enough for, say, rockers. Might be able to do fender patches.

it basically got thrown in with the tooling I bought (bucket in-front).

 

[gonzopancho]

62 axles with Nitro 4.88s, ARB lockers, Nitro birfs & inner axles. Not shown: anti-wrap bar (not installed yet), sliders (ditto), 35s (ditto).

 

[RUSH55]

Go Pua’a! Go Pua’a!

 

[gonzopancho]

Looks better on 35s. Axles are done. Need to make new lines for the power steering (didn't like the lines over the valve cover).
Need to do track (anti-wrap) bar and sliders now.

 

[bobm]

Surprised you didn't go 37s

 

[RUSH55]

37's easy

 

[bobm]

Ya, with room for a can all around