Cheers. I posted a thread on another site and someone told me to check out these forums. Nice nice. Quick intro. I'm 29, from Canada with wife and two kids. Always loved cars and worked on my first (71' Mini) at 14yrs old. Over the years my love for speed and pavement has evolved into a love of creeping over anything but pavement. I now find myself the proud owner of my first Land Cruiser, an 82' BJ42, older B diesel, newer H55F, 24volt system, 33x12.50's on 15x10's etc,etc....traded it for one of my other projects (64' Volvo Amazon). And so starts a new adventure for me. I copied post from other forum and pasted it below;
Just got my 82' BJ42 home recently and as a first time owner of a cruiser wanted to give a rundown of what I am doing so those more seasoned can throw in their two cents worth.
The front fenders/clip/hood etc. are off right now and motor/trans/T.C. is out.
1) Bolts for battery trays and fenders were mostly broken in the frame. A good soaking and a reverse thread easy-out did me no good. I beat the broken bolts and the small threaded stampings that are spot welded to the inside of the frame out with a punch and a hammer. I scraped the front half of the frame clean and prepped for paint. Plan is to use stainless nuts/bolts/lock washers to fasten fenders/battery trays. Sound good? Should I do fenders etc. before or after motor goes back in?
2) Have a newer 3-speed split transfercase on a H55F. T/C is whining. Input/output bearings? Do you need a puller for these or do you split the case and pop them out? Anything other than bearing/seals that I should do while in there? Also, tranny pops out of fifth, we were thinking a washer was missed when it was rebuilt a few years back. Are these tranny and T/C fixes something I should attempt myself as a home mechanic or something best left for the professionals?
3) Gas tank seeps a bit. New ones are quite costly. I heard of a coating you can pour into your gas tank and it hardens to a plastic-type shell inside to seal it up. Anyone else heard of this or know if you can use it with diesel? Also thought of building a fuel cell, but that's also much more costly.
Front end was returned to stock setup so driveshaft needs to be shortened too. It has an older B diesel, injectors and lines just cleaned. Anything else I should do while the motor is out? It's my first diesel so I don't want to do 350TBI swap. Also, the rear frame channel is bent out from off road recovery and I am going to fab a new one out of some heavy C-channel. Are there any websites with tech drawings/dimensions so I can fab it as close to OE as possible?
Thanks for any info or advice...
Later,
S373N
Just got my 82' BJ42 home recently and as a first time owner of a cruiser wanted to give a rundown of what I am doing so those more seasoned can throw in their two cents worth.
The front fenders/clip/hood etc. are off right now and motor/trans/T.C. is out.
1) Bolts for battery trays and fenders were mostly broken in the frame. A good soaking and a reverse thread easy-out did me no good. I beat the broken bolts and the small threaded stampings that are spot welded to the inside of the frame out with a punch and a hammer. I scraped the front half of the frame clean and prepped for paint. Plan is to use stainless nuts/bolts/lock washers to fasten fenders/battery trays. Sound good? Should I do fenders etc. before or after motor goes back in?
2) Have a newer 3-speed split transfercase on a H55F. T/C is whining. Input/output bearings? Do you need a puller for these or do you split the case and pop them out? Anything other than bearing/seals that I should do while in there? Also, tranny pops out of fifth, we were thinking a washer was missed when it was rebuilt a few years back. Are these tranny and T/C fixes something I should attempt myself as a home mechanic or something best left for the professionals?
3) Gas tank seeps a bit. New ones are quite costly. I heard of a coating you can pour into your gas tank and it hardens to a plastic-type shell inside to seal it up. Anyone else heard of this or know if you can use it with diesel? Also thought of building a fuel cell, but that's also much more costly.
Front end was returned to stock setup so driveshaft needs to be shortened too. It has an older B diesel, injectors and lines just cleaned. Anything else I should do while the motor is out? It's my first diesel so I don't want to do 350TBI swap. Also, the rear frame channel is bent out from off road recovery and I am going to fab a new one out of some heavy C-channel. Are there any websites with tech drawings/dimensions so I can fab it as close to OE as possible?
Thanks for any info or advice...
Later,
S373N
