HJ47 welcome here?

[Henry James the 47th]

a few more

 

[Henry James the 47th]

last couple

 

[Henry James the 47th]

and yet more

 

[Henry James the 47th]

the panels gain some weight with the filler added -it's surprising how much considering I'm not putting it on very thickly.

i noticed for the first time that the square bezel has a thicker edge (top side) and a more slender edge, like the round bezels, but not so pronounced. While the bezel could be put on either way, and look pretty much the same, the bezel has a couple of notches at each side around where the headlamp goes, for adjusting screws, and they mean that the bezel can actually go on only one way correctly.

 

[Henry James the 47th]

next set

 

[Henry James the 47th]

three more for ya

 

[Henry James the 47th]

last two

 

[lostmarbles]

Looking good HJ.

Must be more "snow" inside your workshop than you get outside it now.

 

[Henry James the 47th]

We actually had snow last week during a freak storm. No my idea of April weather around here.

Got a box today from Japan 4x4

The first picture is of the drive line bolts for my front driveshaft

 

[Henry James the 47th]

more goodies - the silicone oil is for topping up the viscous fan center. The stator in the first pic is to convert my 24v a/c compressor to 12v function. And holy moley, it looks like my starter relay is going to be shinier than the one lostmarbles has been strutting around with! Revenge is mine!

 

[Henry James the 47th]

and more bits 'n bites - here's one of the two new glow controllers I received. This one looks different than the other two I had by virtue of the metal jacketing around the coil. I can hardly get a good look into the thing, but it looks like it has a thinnish wire with the coil loops of wire more widely spaced apart than i have seen with the other ones in my collection (garbage pile). The lower number written on the controller, 28550-47040 is the same part number as shown on one of the few pages of 1982 EPC printout that I have on hand, which begs the question: since these are still in production, what other vehicles does it work on? (I'm wondering about a Toyota forklift with H-series engine, or something similar??)

I also recently discovered that the 10.5 volt glow plugs i had bought are the wrong ones: I need 8.5 v. ones.

 

[Bear]

Chris,

Is that pintle hook for the seat belt anchors on the floor behind the seats like on the earlier 45 pickups?

 

[Henry James the 47th]

Chris,

Is that pintle hook for the seat belt anchors on the floor behind the seats like on the earlier 45 pickups?

No, the rings are to attach chains to the pintle hook on the back of the truck - the rings replace the lower pair of mounting bolts on the hitch.

 

[Henry James the 47th]

Here's another part I got today: a tire winch. The one currently installed does not fit Toyota Cruiser wheel centers (another product to avoid buying from CCOT)

 

[Henry James the 47th]

Well, I took my box of new bits down to the truck this afternoon and let fly. The oil pan plug gasket is in place, and I put a fresh 10-odd liters of oil into the maw.

Then I hooked up the new controller, nervously awaiting the result. I didn't have to wait too long however, as it heated up super hot in a second, and by the end of 2 seconds the coil broke!

That was a bit deflating. I took all three controllers over to Radd Cruisers and talks about the situation a bit with John. The only part of the system I had any uncertainties about was the hook up at the glow plug end. I had stripped out the Superglow parts and hoked into what looked like a secondary glow bus bar. It turns out that was the wrong place to hook to - I needed to go directly to the glow plug bus bar. Now i realized that the likelihood was that I had grounded out my connection to the glow plugs, and thus when I turned the key to 'G', all the batteries current went to the controller, instead of being distributed between the controller and the six glow plugs That's why it fried out in seconds.

I went back to the truck and removed the secondary bus bar (in the first pic i am holding it wrong end forward), then re-connected the lead from the glow relay directly to the glow plug common buss bar.

Then I hooked up the other new controller, the last one. I turned the key, and nothing seemed to happen at the controller, which was a better scene than the now old routine of !pop! goes the wire..

I took my meter and checked to see if I had voltage at the controller - yup, 12.4 v. I then checked to see if I had current at the glow bus bar, yup, 9.7 volts there.

I had been holding the key a fair while during the check of the power at the glow plug end, and when I popped my head back in to view of the dash area, i could see that the controller was mildly red. Aha! It does work! I turned the key to 'G' again and waited - it took about 45 seconds before it was getting decently red. In fact it took nearly 30 seconds before it showed and color at all. That's definitely too long. The specs are 15~30 seconds for this type of set up. I haven't checked the plugs independently to see how long they take to glow, but I strongly suspect that they are glowing fine, that 45 seconds is too long for them, and that the coil is obviously, by its wire size, not perfectly matched to the plugs. The correct plugs are 8.5 v for my truck, I'm more sure now that I've seen how it is working with the 10.5 v plugs. Tomorrow I'll swap the old ones back in, which I believe are 8.5 v. and see how they work with the controller. The lower the voltage, the higher the resistance after all, so the wire coil in the controller should glow red sooner, but not instantly. The only plugs I've seen listed for the B and H engines are 11v., 10.5v., 8.5 v. and 6 volt. The 6 v. plugs are used with the Superglow system and are red hot in 1~2 seconds. The 10.5 paired with the controller means a very slow rate of display at the coil. I'm pretty much convinced that I will get it working like the factory intended with the 8.5 v plugs. in fact, the only difference in my glow system from the factory HJ47 for late 1980 through until Oct 1982 is in the ignition switch barrel.

 

[Henry James the 47th]

And here's what the controller looks like after 45+ seconds of the key in 'G', along with a couple of photos showing the warning lights activating - cause it's fun to see lights work on the dash!

I installed the new tire winch, after checking it fit the LandCruiser wheel center hole, which it does. One thing i noticed is that the end of the winch where the cast receiver part accepts the winding/unwinding rod (wish I knew the correct name for it), well, it's a bigger piece of casting with more depth to the notch, and lo and behold the bar fits it much better as well. With the one I got from CCOT, the bar wanted to fall out of the cast received part all the time. Too bad it took so long to learn this, as I can't return it any longer i don't think - no, besides, i modified it a bit trying to get it to work, which it did albeit imperfectly. Now problems are all solved.

Two last electrical gremlins are the wiper motor and the dimming rheostat. i'll try to sort them out very soon.

 

[lostmarbles]

Good signs of life there HJ. (Bit like "flickering eyelids" on a sleeping monster/demon.)

 

[Henry James the 47th]

Great success today! I swapped out the 10.5 v glow plugs for the 8.5 v. plugs, turned the key, and the controller coil glowed red after 12~15 seconds. Holding the key on, the coil gets red but not into those shades of orange-yellow that soon after result in frying the wire. I now have it working as factory intended. What a relief!

I received an e-mail from Dave Stedman at Japan4x4 today,

"OK, that is the OEM controller for the HJ47, 80-08/85-06 also fits so Dyna trucks. This is the only one listed all the way through for your HJ47.

There are three different glow plugs listed to match.

80-08/82-10 12V-8.5V
82-10/84-10 12V-6V
82-10/85-06 12V-8.5V"

So, the 6v plugs are for Superglow set ups, used from October 1982 until late 1984, and otherwise they used 8.5 v plugs.

So i now have the absolutely simplest glow system possible, with a totally intuitive glow controller to help judge how long to glow the plugs, PLUS the ability to re-glow the plugs for any amount of time after the engine is running. And it's all with stock parts. I'm feeling good about how that turned out.

I also fitted the new spare wheel up to the rear hub, and it clears the 4Runner caliper perfectly without use of the spacer! So, I'm selling my set of chrome 16" rims, and will be acquiring 4 more of the new OEM ones. Another problem solved.

Here's some shots showing how close the body panels are getting. Today I mostly worked on the small bits.

 

[Henry James the 47th]

three more

 

[Henry James the 47th]

next set. The only problem with the new wheel is that without the spacer, the lug nuts are bottoming out on the studs, so I will need to get another 24 lug nuts. I found the chrome already peeling off just from one installation of these lug nuts, so I will go with OEM for the next set.