HJ47 welcome here?

[PScottBx]

Looking good.

Keep up the good work



Bx

 

[Henry James the 47th]

Got some time in today, mostly involving wiring. I went to the wreckers and scavenged a BJ60 wiring harness today, as it will be needed as a donor. I think I've got 5 wiring harnesses in various stages of deconstruction. I unwrapped an old BJ40 harness in the morning and pulled the 60 in the afternoon.
When I got back to the truck, I brought with me the re-machined steering coupler to the rag joint. I cut the shaft down some more with the zip wheel and then confirmed the fit to the previously machined coupler (which also had to be shortened about 3/8" on the end). I'm happy with the fit at the steering gearbox and will be welding it soon.

 

[Henry James the 47th]

here's some of the wiring adventure. The freshly peeled BJ40 harness in the foreground and the intact 60 in the back. The right picture is the pile of electrical tape detritus.

 

[Henry James the 47th]

and my disc brake dust shields arrived today from Japan. They look sweet! I need to finish the front diff. rebuild before the axle can go back together again; besides that, I realized that I have to re-weld a brake junction mount onto the other end of the front axle, as I've decided to route the front brake line down on the passenger side of the engine bay instead of taking the shorter route down on the driver's side.

 

[seapotato]

hey chris, heard you stopped by the other day , apparently about 3 minutes after I went out, catch you next time ( I promise, the green 45 actually does exist...)

anyways, your truck is lookin great, I'm constantly amazed at how many of those little " genuine toyota" baggies you seem to have showing up at your doorstep, I think I've seen 3 of those in my ten years of cruiser servitude...

later,
r

 

[Henry James the 47th]

I'm constantly amazed at how many of those little " genuine toyota" baggies you seem to have showing up at your doorstep, I think I've seen 3 of those in my ten years of cruiser servitude...

LOL!;p

You're not the only one amazed - if I'd known at the start of this project how many parts would have to be scoured from the 4 corners of the friggin' planet, I just might have stayed in bed. If only the local Toyota dealership was 1/100th as helpful or well connected to the parts data base as my connections in Australia and Japan, I'd happily give them my business. I actually called the local dealership up about 6 weeks ago and explained what I was doing, and how much I was spending at other suppliers of Toyota parts (and how little they had been getting out of that pie). They said they would try and do better, but the reality is that they don't have an experienced or savvy parts person who knows anything about old cruisers, so since the call, all I've gotten from them have been a pair of engine belts, one of which is incorrect and will be returned.

I'm sorry I missed you the other day. Don't you have enough projects without adding a B.O.A.Thousand to the mix?

 

[seapotato]

heh, I'm trying to REMOVE the b.o.a.t from the mix,

( should be an acronym like that for cruisers...)

owned it for nearly ten years, lived on it for a bunch of them, raced it etc etc, and now it's time to sell. which means all the stuff that's been pissing me off for years will get fixed just before I flog it...

 

[cruiser ken]

What's the part number for those dust shields and how do you get them? That is cool. Thanks.

 

[Henry James the 47th]

What's the part number for those dust shields and how do you get them? That is cool. Thanks.

I saw them originally on a HJ61V JDM import, and had the same response you did. I will get the parts numbers posted up tomorrow, and I got them through a fellow mudder selling parts out of Japan - Dave is his name.

 

[Henry James the 47th]

Here's some of the recent fun with the continuing work on the floor repair. I unearthed the seat belt mounting point, as you'll see in comping pictures, and now all that needs to be added is the mounting point for the driver's side inner seat rail. First I fitteed in the little square section (pic 2), and prepared the larger center rectangle to the seat rail mounting points.

 

[Henry James the 47th]

Moving randomly from one thing to the next, I drilled a 32mm hole in the floor to route the wire to the sedimenter, a better solution I thought than routing it out through the firewall, and down and back along the chassis. The 60 series routed the wire along the cab floor as well.

3rd pic is the return to the floor work

 

[Henry James the 47th]

3 more

 

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finished off that one, shot little primer surfacer ( I was out of etching primer) and then on to the next patch

 

[Henry James the 47th]

the reinforcing plates with captive nuts had to be reinstalled, this after media blasting and priming the units.

 

[Henry James the 47th]

in she goes

 

[Henry James the 47th]

next set

 

[Henry James the 47th]

I didn't manage to finish the weld before quitting time, so I shot some etching primer on it. Should be able to complete the floor repairs tomorrow.

 

[Henry James the 47th]

I forgot the camera yesterday, and managed to complete the work on the floor. After finishing off on the inside of the cab welding , I went to work on the underside of the floor pan. I had to take care with placing a captive nut into the floor pan to secure the drivers side seat rail, as the threads for the seat belt bolts are completely different. Fortunately, the seat rail bolts are a typical 10mm bolt, and I welded a nut to a 1/8" 'c' channel section as a reinforcement.

 

[Henry James the 47th]

three more

 

[Henry James the 47th]

it's nice to be through with that section of the floor pan. In the second pic, lower center, you can see the cover plate hole for the fuel tank sender, where I welded up a couple of rust perforation holes and re-primered.