Help from UK FJ40 owners

[Chamba]

From the grille and the petrol door, it's certainly not a '78: grille indicates '79+ and petrol door indicates late '80+.

Post a picture of the leaf spring pin. One 10mm bolt will indicate '81+, 2 will indicate '80-.

Personally, I'd be chuffed to have a 40 as nice as this one looks to be: '78 or not.

 

[JohnnyC]

Vin is 348118, found some tables online that looks like it was late 1981 but I have probably misread it.

Definitely 10/81 is the build date

MickW has an Indonesian fj40 that is only 429 away from yours in the build his ends in 547 eng2F584662

still counting ?
here's mine..
FJ40-348547
2F-584662 /engine cast 10929
Year registered 1982
Late 1981 batch afaik.View attachment 2046233

 

[45Dougal]

This probably answers the remaining questions...

 

[cmcmill01]

When importing mine, it came with all the original paperwork. Why are the documents stuck in a police station?

 

[45Dougal]

Worth noting that although it states 1/1/77 build date on the V5, the data suggests it was built in the second half of 77.
HJ45 serial number dates are less well documented unfortunately.

 

[BlackstarUK]

I've just imported one from Indonesia. Everything is great, it needs a few little jobs doing but is 95% there. I'm now in the process of getting it registered. The Indonesian ownership documents etc are held at the Police station which I assume is protocol for that country. I have pictures of the documents but they aren't the clearest and they don't have all the info I need to fill the forms to register it in the UK. I'm probably going overkill but I'm looking for someone in the UK who has a later FJ that I could get all the UK recognised information from on their V5 (ownership document in the UK)

Obligatory idiot gurning in an FJ40 picture..

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Hey there chief
Do you mind if I pick your brains ?
I am looking at following in your footsteps and importing one from Bali...can you please tell me how much the shipping / import costs were?
Did you buy the truck from pics / video or did you see it ?
Do they have power steering / AC ?
Anything else I should look out for ?
Do they drive like a brick?
HUGE thanks in advance
Dominic