Beginning of my HZJ75 Pickup...

[tlcruiserman]

Building an HZJ75 Pickup...

After several months of collecting the parts I need, not to mention the long wait for the big parts, I finally have just about everything I need to build a HZJ75 series Pickup. But after taking a closer look at all the parts I decided to start from the ground up and make it like new

Here are some photos of before and after on my frame..

Cheers,

Michael

 

[crushers]

SWEET!!
another build up on a 75 series... cool.
cheers and enjoy...

 

[Tapage]

from scratch .. !!!! woouu awesome .. !

 

[tlcruiserman]

from scratch .. !!!! woouu awesome .. !

Yep, at first it was going to just be put it all together as is, but the more I thought about it, the more sense it made to go though every part. So far I have blasted and powder coated the frame, sub frame pieces for front bumper, cross member, rear axle housing, rear carrier housing, front axle housing. I have pickup up a Dobinson Suspension and shocks for it, Toyota snorkel, I also have a rare e-locker front axle to use in place of the original one (rear is already and LSD). Here is how it looks as I brought the pieces over to my shop.

Cheers,

Michael

 

[crushers]

starting to look like ENS industrial down there..
;^)

 

[roscoFJ73]

Looks good so far ,Ill be watching this one. It looks LHD,you may need to swap the springs to opposite sides from whats stamped on the spring.
Are the Dobs HD or MD? The HD will ride rough without a load in the rear.

Does it have sub tanks?I thought I could spy a centre gauge pod

 

[tlcruiserman]

Looks good so far ,Ill be watching this one. It looks LHD,you may need to swap the springs to opposite sides from whats stamped on the spring.
Are the Dobs HD or MD? The HD will ride rough without a load in the rear.

Does it have sub tanks?I thought I could spy a centre gauge pod

Yep this one is a left hand drive, Hmm, no left or right specific on the springs, it is the medium duty 7+2 on the rear, 8 up font. I think that will end up being about 45mm lift (depending on what I do for shackles). Yep it has factory sub-tank, as well as the factory rear box. Even factory brace bars on the front of the box (not sure what they call that). No power windows, but it will have power locks.

Cheers,

Michael

 

[roscoFJ73]

Yep this one is a left hand drive, Hmm, no left or right specific on the springs, it is the medium duty 7+2 on the rear, 8 up font. I think that will end up being about 45mm lift (depending on what I do for shackles). Yep it has factory sub-tank, as well as the factory rear box. Even factory brace bars on the front of the box (not sure what they call that). No power windows, but it will have power locks.

Cheers,

Michael

Mine have a R and L stamped on them at the ends underneath. They look HD to me. Mine are 6 front and 7 rear from memory
The drivers side spring was about 10mm higher when mine were new if placed upside down,side by side.
I dont think power windows were available in the 75 series,not in oz anyway.
Factory brace bars? Do you mean something that stops a load sliding forward into the cab?

How about aircon ? I can see some controls there

 

[tlcruiserman]

Mine have a R and L stamped on them at the ends underneath. They look HD to me. Mine are 6 front and 7 rear from memory
The drivers side spring was about 10mm higher when mine were new if placed upside down,side by side.
I dont think power windows were available in the 75 series,not in oz anyway.
Factory brace bars? Do you mean something that stops a load sliding forward into the cab?

How about aircon ? I can see some controls there

Yep to stop load from coming into the cab, oh yeah I forgot about that, it has A/C

 

[Grease Cruiser]

Can I ask how you will make it legal for on road use in the US?

 

[dieseldog]

It's home built. Here in Texas, you could definitely get it taken care of. Been there, done that--and not just once.

 

[tlcruiserman]

more phots of chassis work

Here are some photos of the axles after blasting and powder coating, notice the changes on the newer rear center housing, extra runner for oil flow/return.

 

[Tapage]

ooooo dude .. ! you are working in a big piece of jewelery .. !

 

[Mr FJ55]

Where are you man? we still wating for pics

 

[tlcruiserman]

Where are you man? we still wating for pics

Sorry, I don't have any new pictures yet. I have been waiting severla months for so suspension parts and body mounting parts to come in, I will be back at it very soon and will post pics.

Cheers,

Michael

 

[tlcruiserman]

Back to working on HZJ75 Pickup

As a lot of you I mud know if you work on customer rigs your own projects always take a back seat and my HZJ75 P/U has been seating around for over a year know. As of January I finally got down to just one customer project and started working on the dozen or so projects I had myself. As of the 1 year anniversary of the truck scattered around my shop I started working on it again.

I had the best intentions of doing a complete ground up restore everything new etc. But now I am just trying to get it put back together.

When resuming the first thing was to mount all the plumming and electrical back on the frame. (Frame already has temp axles and tires with new suspension), Next was to put the HZ back in it, after putting a new clutch in it first.

If you are wondering why the old exhaust system is going back on, I have found when I have a new system put in, it really helps if the old one is still installed that way the muffler shops put the new system where is should go.

Here are some updated photos:

 

[tlcruiserman]

Once the plumbing and engine are in it is time for the cab. Again I thought about striping it down but at this point I want to get it back together and stripping the cab would probably delay the project another six months so it gets cleaned up and put back together. I did make sure to replace all body mounts.

 

[tlcruiserman]

Ideally you want some bodies to help when you put the cab back on, but in my case it was a solo work weekend so this is how you do it by yourself.

 

[tlcruiserman]

And here is where I am as of a month ago:

 

[roscoFJ73]

I see you got a factory radio/cassette. All the aussie ones had that except mine,I just got a radio
Has that got the K085 or K082 Diffs?

Its getting there,as long as the frame's clean, much of it could be revisited without too many problems.