Cool & rare choke knob tech/Teq

[CruiserTrash]

Big thanks to @ToyotaMatt for this. He posted a photo of this really neat choke knob that I’d never seen and my mind started working. Cutting to the chase we collaborated from afar on getting this to work and getting it installed in my 60.

I have a 1982 FJ60 so there is no bulb - no nothing - behind the orange lens on the lower left of the dash, where later 60s came with a choke or glow plug indicator. The early US 60s simply didn’t have an indicator I guess. The face of this knob is its own orange lens that I wired - with a lot of knowledge from Matt - to light up. Doing this involved three different choke cable assemblies, transplanting parts from one to another, a hard to find bulb that Matt sent me (LED of course), and plenty of tinkering on my part. But now I have an indicator for when my choke is pulled out.

I made a series of videos showing how I got this to work that I may upload to YouTube. Not that I have any desire to be a YT personality, but because there’s not really another way to make the video accessible.

Some more photos:

 

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Very cool!

 

[cps432]

I need a choke knob and I’ve been wanting one of these. Very cool! I have the choke indicator already, so this would be redundant, but dang if that doesn’t look snazzy!

 

[CruiserTrash]

I need a choke knob and I’ve been wanting one of these. Very cool! I have the choke indicator already, so this would be redundant, but dang if that doesn’t look snazzy!

With enough wiring know-how you could defeat the wires for the stock indicator and only have the knob wired up. Finding the knob is going to be difficult though. The housing behind the dash and the shaft that the knob threads onto are slightly different as well - the guts from one choke assembly (the one that came on the trucks with the light up knob) needs to be swapped over to the FJ60 compatible assembly. The light up knob choke assemblies themselves are hard to find.

I guess if you did all that you could repurpose the stock FJ60 choke pens for something else. Like I said mine doesn’t have anything behind it … a I’ve been trying to cook up my own ideas for that.

As you can tell this was a process haha.

 

[cps432]

With enough wiring know-how you could defeat the wires for the stock indicator and only have the knob wired up. Finding the knob is going to be difficult though. The housing behind the dash and the shaft that the knob threads onto are slightly different as well - the guts from one choke assembly (the one that came on the trucks with the light up knob) needs to be swapped over to the FJ60 compatible assembly. The light up knob choke assemblies themselves are hard to find.

I guess if you did all that you could repurpose the stock FJ60 choke pens for something else. Like I said mine doesn’t have anything behind it … a I’ve been trying to cook up my own ideas for that.

As you can tell this was a process haha.

There’s one listed on eBay right now. It’s $300-$400 or something absurd. I want one but not that badly.

 

[ToyotaMatt]

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thank you Jim for inviting me to participate in something both Vintage TOYOTA everything & Historically Significant here

Creating the first ever DIGITAL Video Documented and Captured full function field test step by steps per the FJ60 owners manual and FSM by the book in a seamless and timeless way , of a actual perfectly restored with ALL oem parts FJ60 / FJ62 3F Carb. LED diode infused LUMENS illuminated back Lit Knob Choke Cable , SUB. ASSY. .......

is something i will not soon forget...



this arena and what you show above was exactly how it all started for me here on MUD , in a time filled with adventure and pushing the
limits of both control cables and pull switches to there fullest possible newer then new condition potential was and still something i yearn to do . it's a absolute passion that i continue to evolve , as i also evolve ..



if you told me 10 or 12 years ago when this Sputnik-Moment Spark first came to be ? , i could and would actually be creating and designing my own vision and brand-line of Choke and Hand Throttle control cables for all the various 40 & 55 serious Land Cruisers out there today , i would have simply said no f'ing way .. ....

it is only getting better each and every day ...

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thanks Jim ...
- below is special place for me , started by a caring and friendly push from @65swb45 to explore my inner Teq
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Choke cable variations

well, I finished up sorting out all the different PCV hoses and breathers and decided to dive into the next snake pit, the cables. I'm gonna look to @RAGINGMATT for the ultimate breakout list on these, as my last phone call with him made me keenly aware he's got this little niche mastered.

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