Alright guys, I'm really excited that my dad and I have finally pickup up our own 1988 FJ62. My dad had a blue 1986 FJ60 and then a 1997 locked 80 series. Those have been long gone, but we have always wanted to get another, and we finally did. This is where the 1988 FJ62 comes in.
We picked it up off of a gentleman in Chico this past weekend with around 322,000 miles on the clock (speedo hasn't been working the last few weeks I guess) The previous owner built front and rear bumpers for it (janky and coming off when I have time to get new ones built) added some 33" Toyo MT's wrapped around some black steelies and a 12,000b winch.
I'm keeping it as is for now and just cleaning it up, going through it all and making sure that it's nice and reliable and enjoying it. The end goal is to do a spring over on 37's locked front and rear. There's plenty of little things to do on it right now that I'm slowly chipping away at with my dad when I'm home from school.
Originally, we wanted to get a 60, but fuel injection and the automatic tranny for crawling were worth the sacrifice of the square headlights. I'll be doing a grill swap eventually, but can deal with them for now.
Anyway, here's a couple photos that I got this weekend after we picked it up.
IMG_3781 by Zach Youngberg, on Flickr
LR4A9580 by Zach Youngberg, on Flickr
We picked it up off of a gentleman in Chico this past weekend with around 322,000 miles on the clock (speedo hasn't been working the last few weeks I guess) The previous owner built front and rear bumpers for it (janky and coming off when I have time to get new ones built) added some 33" Toyo MT's wrapped around some black steelies and a 12,000b winch.
I'm keeping it as is for now and just cleaning it up, going through it all and making sure that it's nice and reliable and enjoying it. The end goal is to do a spring over on 37's locked front and rear. There's plenty of little things to do on it right now that I'm slowly chipping away at with my dad when I'm home from school.
Originally, we wanted to get a 60, but fuel injection and the automatic tranny for crawling were worth the sacrifice of the square headlights. I'll be doing a grill swap eventually, but can deal with them for now.
Anyway, here's a couple photos that I got this weekend after we picked it up.

