HZJ62 in 8 days

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Radd Cruisers said:
Would be wise to add a guesset on the tranny mount outer frame connector, couple pieces of triangle steel in the centre of the bracket or on the outside would be a good idea.

Did you relocate brake lines on frame and fuel lines to opposite side?


Rob
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Those pics were early on and only showed one bracket on the frame. There is now a bracket on each side of the frame (4 total) like stock.

I thought about the gusset idea and still may do it, but I dont think its necessary. If the angle pieces were welded and not pre made angle ( and in the thickness that it is) it would be a good idea.

I also dont think its necessary to move any brake or fuel lines. In fact I have a 13BT in a 62 with the exhaust in the same location and no issues. There is plenty of clearance.
 
gifu said:
very cool. easy and fast. did you say what turbo you used? What about the tach (i'd guess the harder of the gauges to make work)? I heart turbo diesel 60's.
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I put a hole in the bellhousing and mounted a tach pickup from an early 3B (short length probe from iron bellhousing) .

It fits well, but the flywheel is a larger diameter with more teeth to count. I have a diesel tach from a 60 to match but it will be significantly off. There is another mud member that has worked out a signal translater that we will use to connect the 3B pickup with the stock FJ62 tach.
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lynchmob said:
Those pics were early on and only showed one bracket on the frame. There is now a bracket on each side of the frame (4 total) like stock.

I thought about the gusset idea and still may do it, but I dont think its necessary. If the angle pieces were welded and not pre made angle ( and in the thickness that it is) it would be a good idea.

I also dont think its necessary to move any brake or fuel lines. In fact I have a 13BT in a 62 with the exhaust in the same location and no issues. There is plenty of clearance.
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Just suggestions, not saying it will be a issue, possibly long term peice of mind.

Factory locates them on opposite side of the exhaust for a reason?
 
euclid said:
Damn. I had high hopes you were going to blaze the 1HZ to A440 trail for me!

Looking good. Congrats Esh.
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Well I have options for you and Id still like to do one with the auto.

You could always send your 62 then fly out to pick it up.

Its driving well. EGT is really low at this point (pre turbo). No adjustments have been made to fuel or the waste gate. It maxes out at 7-8psi and the highest EGT I have been able to reach is under 700 F. That said, it has decent power as is. Highway cruising produces up to 3psi on the flats around 65mph. That garrett turbo really likes to whistle.

The exhaust needs to be finished up. Its 3" mandrel bent tubing with a 3" dump piped I made. Ill post pics later this week.

Esh will take posession next weekend. He has a handfull of guages to install and then he is on to outfitting (re-outfitting?) the 62 with all its expedition gear. He has a few trips on the horizon so it will get some real road (and off road) testing soon enough.
 
Still going well. We put a new throwout bearing in it a few months ago. Turns out the center was a bit out of round with the face that meets the pressure plate springs. Seems to be common with these as 3 of 4 bearings I had were out of round too. Would have continued to work fine as the actual bearing was in good shape but it was chirping on the springs.

He took it on a few long trips this summer. We might do some experimentation with a different turbo.
 
Great swap. I a curious about who you got a 1HZ in the U.S. At some point I would like to get one and I'm curious on how you did it.

Thanks
 
orangefj45 said:
did you guys get the tach to work, if so, what were the part you used?

georg
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Sorry for the late reply. No we did not

The bellhousing was drilled and tapped to use a 3B pickup in the bellhousing and a diesel 60 tach. We abandoned the idea after figuring the difference in the tooth count on the flywheel. More teeth on the hz.

In a later conversion I attempted to use a dakota digital signal processor with a common VDO pickup in the bellhousing. Unfortunately this did not work out in the time I had to get it done. Theoretically this setup would let you use their processor with the pickup to generate a signal that is compatible with a gas tach. Its infinitely adjustable and you have to use an optical tach to set it up the first time.
In testing it turned out that the vdo was not putting out enough voltage to work. I either did not have it positioned close enough to the flywheel or something was not working right. I may try this again at some point but for now Im happy to pay for stock tachs that work with stock outputs.
 
Hey chris.
Thanks for the reply and info. I appreciate it.

Here's my scenario:

1Hz

No pump sensor
No bell housing sensor

Tried using the alternator for signal but it's not very consistent.

Got any brilliant ideas?

Thanks again!

Georg
 
There is an auto meter tach that uses a vdo type inductive pickup. You would have to build a mount to point the sensor at 4 notches or magnets in the crank pulley. Or use a tiny tach. If you want stock you can try the dakota digital setup but you will need to drill the bellhousing to place the vdo pickup - and keep your fingers crossed that you can get it to work.
Or get a pump sender and pull the guts from an HZJ70 or Diesel 80 series stock tach and replace the guts of whatever existing tach is in the rig you are working on. Not sure how feasible this is.

The signal from the pump sender is very low voltage - less than 1V AC. The dakota unit needs minimum 2V which is supposed to be attainable with the VDO pickup on the flywheel teeth.
 
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