This was a semi planned impulse purchase. I've wanted an earlier 200 series for a while, but the time was never right for us. We picked this truck up recently when our Jetta TDI died on the freeway.
I've been daily driving a very tired 60 series for the last few years.
You can find that ordeal here: Mama Bear the FJ60 this was my first land cruiser.
62: Grey Gardens FJ62 Stock wife truck. Kinda
This is a 2011 with high miles. 270,000 miles to be exact. It's a pre-facelift which is what I wanted. It's a 2 owner, lots of factory stuff done....and it's just been driven properly and kept stock.
I was inducted into the group by the radiator cracking on the day I picked it up. It was likely an older factory model, maybe a few years old. I epoxied the tank and drove it home with no more leaks.
After a week of driving it with a JB weld patch that I was rather proud of, I swapped to the new style of OEM radiator. I wish I would have had the parts on hand to do the whole cooling system, but I didn't. So I settled on a coolant exchange and a bleed.
It's also leaking from the inner valley pan in the Vee. Fun stuff, but this truck has a lot of the same joy to work on vibes that my early trucks have.
This isn't as much of a build and modify it thread as it is "Keep it running and not leaking". Lots of mileage and wear related fixes coming up. This is the newest car my wife and I have ever had. It drives amazingly and sounds like a brand new truck to us. No squeaks, rattles or major faults. I love it.
I've been daily driving a very tired 60 series for the last few years.
You can find that ordeal here: Mama Bear the FJ60 this was my first land cruiser.
62: Grey Gardens FJ62 Stock wife truck. Kinda
This is a 2011 with high miles. 270,000 miles to be exact. It's a pre-facelift which is what I wanted. It's a 2 owner, lots of factory stuff done....and it's just been driven properly and kept stock.
I was inducted into the group by the radiator cracking on the day I picked it up. It was likely an older factory model, maybe a few years old. I epoxied the tank and drove it home with no more leaks.
After a week of driving it with a JB weld patch that I was rather proud of, I swapped to the new style of OEM radiator. I wish I would have had the parts on hand to do the whole cooling system, but I didn't. So I settled on a coolant exchange and a bleed.
It's also leaking from the inner valley pan in the Vee. Fun stuff, but this truck has a lot of the same joy to work on vibes that my early trucks have.
This isn't as much of a build and modify it thread as it is "Keep it running and not leaking". Lots of mileage and wear related fixes coming up. This is the newest car my wife and I have ever had. It drives amazingly and sounds like a brand new truck to us. No squeaks, rattles or major faults. I love it.
