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Holy geez that's gorgeous!
Dan
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Yeah, but it's probably littered with empty ACME boxes.
What an awesome trip. I would love to take my family out there some day.
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Hi Everyone:
I just got back into ATL after 45+hrs of driving across the US at about 60mph.
My butt hurts but my mind has been placed back into a situation of repose: how could it not be?
I am spending all day catching up with the tons of domestic tasks at hand as well as concentrating on organizing my backlog.
All clients who ordered parts while I was traveling, your parts depart tomorrow.
All emails will be responded to in the order they were received. That's a lot of emails.
I appreciate your patience as it is going to take me a good 3-4 days to catch up.
If you cannot wait for me to catch-up (which I fully comprehend), please feel free to contact @cruiserdan or your parts supplier of choice.
They can assist you if you need something quickly for your Land Cruiser.
Be well folks.
Onur
I just got back into ATL after 45+hrs of driving across the US at about 60mph.
My butt hurts but my mind has been placed back into a situation of repose: how could it not be?
I am spending all day catching up with the tons of domestic tasks at hand as well as concentrating on organizing my backlog.
All clients who ordered parts while I was traveling, your parts depart tomorrow.
All emails will be responded to in the order they were received. That's a lot of emails.
I appreciate your patience as it is going to take me a good 3-4 days to catch up.
If you cannot wait for me to catch-up (which I fully comprehend), please feel free to contact @cruiserdan or your parts supplier of choice.
They can assist you if you need something quickly for your Land Cruiser.
Be well folks.
Onur
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Just wanted to send a shout out to MUDDER's along the way that provided coffee, conversation, camaraderie, dinner, a bed and some warmth from the cold, beer, jokes, tall tales, great campfires, good times in Moab proper and some Texas hospitality.
@FJ60Cam in Memphis:
@Delancy in OK:
@cruiserdan, Sarah and family:
@Mr Cimarron (hardluck award winner) @DanS HJ-45 @barrys in Moab and Southern Utah:
@joekatana and @KillerPea in Texas for a rip-roaring late night rumble in a couple of cowboy bars.
Trips like this out hanging with clients and friends and family make the Land Cruiser community what it really is. Sure, yes, there are trucks and parts and commerce and business and emails and phone calls, etc. But the collective mentality of the Land Cruiser tribe (as I like to call it) is wholly its own phenomena and wholly special in this rather hum-drum world we get to call our own.
to you all and see you again out on the road.
-onur
Covington, GA
@FJ60Cam in Memphis:
@Delancy in OK:
@cruiserdan, Sarah and family:
@Mr Cimarron (hardluck award winner) @DanS HJ-45 @barrys in Moab and Southern Utah:
@joekatana and @KillerPea in Texas for a rip-roaring late night rumble in a couple of cowboy bars.
Trips like this out hanging with clients and friends and family make the Land Cruiser community what it really is. Sure, yes, there are trucks and parts and commerce and business and emails and phone calls, etc. But the collective mentality of the Land Cruiser tribe (as I like to call it) is wholly its own phenomena and wholly special in this rather hum-drum world we get to call our own.
to you all and see you again out on the road.-onur
Covington, GA
Tribe, cult, potāto, potahto...
...Potatoe if you are a certain former Vice President....
Good times brother! Kate is not sad she missed out on 6 degree camping. But the stars (we saw the most vivid shooting star any of us had seen) she wishes she could have seen.
Let's do it again, OK?
Dan
Hey man, Thanks again for the help tonight. I really appreciate. I swear I plan on making it to ATL sometime to drop off a 12pk.
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Great pics, envious of your journey too!
Put this on the back burner no hurry at all but looking for a pair of these 48706-60030 so I can complete the list for my January bushing party!
Put this on the back burner no hurry at all but looking for a pair of these 48706-60030 so I can complete the list for my January bushing party!
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What is the part# for a new 2F longblock? Are there any of those left?
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FIFY.
Negative. Then it would not be a toyota part number. All toyota part numbers are either 10 or 12 digits.
Exclusively.
Except for batteries......5-5-3
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Except for batteries......5-5-3
The only clowns that buy Toyota batteries are people like you and me.
No one we interact with will buy a Toyota battery... unless they have to.....
And those are not real battery part numbers. You know that. Real battery part numbers are 10 digit part numbers starting with 28800-XXXXX.
5-5-3 is a North American aberration.
Just the crappy alpha additions. And hardware that no longer conforms to suffix descriptors. 
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Hey Folks:
I am reasonably caught up at this point. Like I said, I might need some day to day help. Does anyone have a lead on one of these at a reasonable weekly/daily/hourly rate?
Anyway, a few logistical items:
1. Non-US, off line Japanese/World parts: If you are driving a 7x series, or a diesel Land Cruiser, I want to implore you to do the following things:
A. Be Patient
B. Have deep pockets
C. Be Patient
D. Pick a better supported vehicle next time you need parts for a 30 year old truck from Japan, or Thailand, or South Africa, or Australia, etc. Seriously.
Just like FJ60/62 parts, 7x parts especially for the B/2B/3B/2H/12H-T/13B-T engines are getting more and more difficult to procure.
I'm not trying to be harsh; I am trying to inject a bit of reality in the conversation.
Fact of the matter is, if you are playing the 7x or Toyota diesel game and you want new OEM parts, money talks. I don't care what anyone says, the fact of the matter is that I am merely saying what others don't want to say and what most owners of these vehicles don't want to tell their wives.
Also, if it sounds too good to be true, more than likely it is. Anyone who says they have a restored truck from places like Australia or South America or Africa where these trucks get driven into the ground are lying. That's the truth unless you can see some documentation. Do your DUE DILIGENCE. Please.
I can get whatever you want as quickly as you want, but the question you need to ask yourself is: what am I willing to pay for convenience? What am I willing to pay for "Amazon"- like service? If your answer is "not much," then you are going to continue to be unhappy with your ownership experience due to time lost, frustration, heartache, and a significantly lighter billfold.
These are exotic cars folks. They are not 70 year old Morgan's, or 50 year old Rolls-Royces, but they are exotic cars nonetheless.
As a caretaker of one of these vehicles you need to do things like:
1. Plan in advance: If you know you have a rare iteration, start buying parts now like you put away money for the eventually useless 401K plan. Put aside $500 a month and buy your spare parts, especially if you are operating in the 24v world: switches, relays, starters, alternators, vacuum pumps, etc. Start planning ahead if you are committed to the care taking of these vehicles. They will also reward you with being reliable.
2. Be patient. Be patient. Be patient. When you send a request for me to find a widget that came on a 1985 BJ70-MR know that you are dealing with time zone differences, currency differences, logistics of shipping and handling, customs, duties, import and export rules, etc.
None of this is quick.
A $10 part might have 20 emails just to confirm that the widget is available, a "live" part and can be shipped. And if you cannot be patient, then you need to accept that immediacy costs money and act accordingly.
3. Become proficient in understanding your truck: be vigilant about preventative maintenance--assume that the truck you own is actually a machine (which it is, in fact).
When the machine is down, you lose money (in most of our cases, you can't drive around with a s***-eating-grin all day long as you cart the kids to soccer practice in your HZJ77). As such, do the simple things all machines need: attention, regimen, detail-oriented tasks, and understanding the internal logic of how your vehicle operates. Do some reading; learn about the history of your engine or truck.
Basically: don't be ignorant.
I implore you to learn about what you are doing, learn about the community you want to be a part of, understand the history and relevance of the development of the Toyota Land Cruiser.
I am reasonably caught up at this point. Like I said, I might need some day to day help. Does anyone have a lead on one of these at a reasonable weekly/daily/hourly rate?
Anyway, a few logistical items:
1. Non-US, off line Japanese/World parts: If you are driving a 7x series, or a diesel Land Cruiser, I want to implore you to do the following things:
A. Be Patient
B. Have deep pockets
C. Be Patient
D. Pick a better supported vehicle next time you need parts for a 30 year old truck from Japan, or Thailand, or South Africa, or Australia, etc. Seriously.
Just like FJ60/62 parts, 7x parts especially for the B/2B/3B/2H/12H-T/13B-T engines are getting more and more difficult to procure.
I'm not trying to be harsh; I am trying to inject a bit of reality in the conversation.
Fact of the matter is, if you are playing the 7x or Toyota diesel game and you want new OEM parts, money talks. I don't care what anyone says, the fact of the matter is that I am merely saying what others don't want to say and what most owners of these vehicles don't want to tell their wives.
Also, if it sounds too good to be true, more than likely it is. Anyone who says they have a restored truck from places like Australia or South America or Africa where these trucks get driven into the ground are lying. That's the truth unless you can see some documentation. Do your DUE DILIGENCE. Please.
I can get whatever you want as quickly as you want, but the question you need to ask yourself is: what am I willing to pay for convenience? What am I willing to pay for "Amazon"- like service? If your answer is "not much," then you are going to continue to be unhappy with your ownership experience due to time lost, frustration, heartache, and a significantly lighter billfold.
These are exotic cars folks. They are not 70 year old Morgan's, or 50 year old Rolls-Royces, but they are exotic cars nonetheless.
As a caretaker of one of these vehicles you need to do things like:
1. Plan in advance: If you know you have a rare iteration, start buying parts now like you put away money for the eventually useless 401K plan. Put aside $500 a month and buy your spare parts, especially if you are operating in the 24v world: switches, relays, starters, alternators, vacuum pumps, etc. Start planning ahead if you are committed to the care taking of these vehicles. They will also reward you with being reliable.
2. Be patient. Be patient. Be patient. When you send a request for me to find a widget that came on a 1985 BJ70-MR know that you are dealing with time zone differences, currency differences, logistics of shipping and handling, customs, duties, import and export rules, etc.
None of this is quick.
A $10 part might have 20 emails just to confirm that the widget is available, a "live" part and can be shipped. And if you cannot be patient, then you need to accept that immediacy costs money and act accordingly.
3. Become proficient in understanding your truck: be vigilant about preventative maintenance--assume that the truck you own is actually a machine (which it is, in fact).
When the machine is down, you lose money (in most of our cases, you can't drive around with a s***-eating-grin all day long as you cart the kids to soccer practice in your HZJ77). As such, do the simple things all machines need: attention, regimen, detail-oriented tasks, and understanding the internal logic of how your vehicle operates. Do some reading; learn about the history of your engine or truck.
Basically: don't be ignorant.
I implore you to learn about what you are doing, learn about the community you want to be a part of, understand the history and relevance of the development of the Toyota Land Cruiser.
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