W’sup Mudders!
Long time toyota guy and Mud lurker here. After quite a bit of searching and waiting, I bought a ‘93 HZJ75 troop carrier from a fellow Mud member about a year ago and now finally getting around to starting a thread about the truck.
It’s RHD and was imported from Oz by the PO. Mileage shows ~350km, but I’m told the motor was replaced ~100km ago. Based on how well it runs this seems believable but at the same time, don’t really care how many KMs it has so long as it runs solid.
Overall condition is pretty solid. A few small spots of rust on the body in the normal places, otherwise the body is relatively straight and free of Bondo. Chassis is virtually 100% rust free, not even much/any surface rust to speak of aside from on the stock exhaust, which will be replaced soon. Paint’s been resprayed once and I’ll be giving it a fresh spray once I get the rust spots taken care of. Will also sound deaden, etc.
Interior is brown/tan and to be honest I can’t really tell if it *was* sable or oak, or some combo of the two perhaps. Appears too dark for oak but then again definitely not the right shade of light tan for sable, either. I can only assume UV damage has affected the color dramatically, and what color it once was I may never know. Thankfully, @coldtaco came through with most of what I need to refresh the interior to the proper dark/light sable (plus my buddy @Bogan is hooking up some fresh OEM cloth seats!). I will swap the interior out at the same time as I dig into the rust spots and body work.
Truck came to me pretty much bone stock and while it was running and driving fairly well, it was definitely in need of some overdue maintenance. took it to Georg at Cruiser Bros for a full health check up. Transfer case outputs were SMOKED, went ahead and rebuilt the entire case and chucked a set of terrain tamer low range gears in because crawling. Injection pump is leaking pretty bad, have a fresh rebuilt unit waiting for a boost compensator to arrive so I can take care of that … and slap a turbo and FMIC in there while we’re at it because go fast.
Ran the stock split 16s and 235s for a good long while just to see how they were (totally fine), but went ahead and threw on a set of FJ Cruiser steelies (w/ 1” wheels spacers) with some 255 BFG MTs mounted that I had laying around from a different truck. Not my “forever” wheels/tires but they look good and are working for now.
Have been chipping away at a bunch of other little things in regard to restoring and repairing but nothing really worthy of calling out specifically. Did install a set of United Pacific LED headlights and man what a wiring nightmare that was! After much trickery we got them working perfectly, including the multi-function halos. I’ll post some more pics and info on that soon.
That’s all for now but I’ve got a bunch of other stuff planned so stay tuned! And thanks in advance for all the help I’m sure I’ll be getting from y’all as I dig deeper into this thing, and of course to those who’ve already helped.
Long time toyota guy and Mud lurker here. After quite a bit of searching and waiting, I bought a ‘93 HZJ75 troop carrier from a fellow Mud member about a year ago and now finally getting around to starting a thread about the truck.
It’s RHD and was imported from Oz by the PO. Mileage shows ~350km, but I’m told the motor was replaced ~100km ago. Based on how well it runs this seems believable but at the same time, don’t really care how many KMs it has so long as it runs solid.
Overall condition is pretty solid. A few small spots of rust on the body in the normal places, otherwise the body is relatively straight and free of Bondo. Chassis is virtually 100% rust free, not even much/any surface rust to speak of aside from on the stock exhaust, which will be replaced soon. Paint’s been resprayed once and I’ll be giving it a fresh spray once I get the rust spots taken care of. Will also sound deaden, etc.
Interior is brown/tan and to be honest I can’t really tell if it *was* sable or oak, or some combo of the two perhaps. Appears too dark for oak but then again definitely not the right shade of light tan for sable, either. I can only assume UV damage has affected the color dramatically, and what color it once was I may never know. Thankfully, @coldtaco came through with most of what I need to refresh the interior to the proper dark/light sable (plus my buddy @Bogan is hooking up some fresh OEM cloth seats!). I will swap the interior out at the same time as I dig into the rust spots and body work.
Truck came to me pretty much bone stock and while it was running and driving fairly well, it was definitely in need of some overdue maintenance. took it to Georg at Cruiser Bros for a full health check up. Transfer case outputs were SMOKED, went ahead and rebuilt the entire case and chucked a set of terrain tamer low range gears in because crawling. Injection pump is leaking pretty bad, have a fresh rebuilt unit waiting for a boost compensator to arrive so I can take care of that … and slap a turbo and FMIC in there while we’re at it because go fast.
Ran the stock split 16s and 235s for a good long while just to see how they were (totally fine), but went ahead and threw on a set of FJ Cruiser steelies (w/ 1” wheels spacers) with some 255 BFG MTs mounted that I had laying around from a different truck. Not my “forever” wheels/tires but they look good and are working for now.
Have been chipping away at a bunch of other little things in regard to restoring and repairing but nothing really worthy of calling out specifically. Did install a set of United Pacific LED headlights and man what a wiring nightmare that was! After much trickery we got them working perfectly, including the multi-function halos. I’ll post some more pics and info on that soon.
That’s all for now but I’ve got a bunch of other stuff planned so stay tuned! And thanks in advance for all the help I’m sure I’ll be getting from y’all as I dig deeper into this thing, and of course to those who’ve already helped.
won’t stick to the seats 
