Land Cruiser Parts Catalogs

[seth]

I've decided that it would be helpful to the Land Cruiser community to begin open sourcing parts catalogs as I buy or find them. It takes a ton of time to disassemble and scan every page, then process them to pages on the site, but I've just completed the first one – No. 93658-67, Published September 1967 and covering the following models FJ40L-A, FJ40LV-A U.S.A.

If anyone else would like to help with this endeavor, please let me know! Thanks for all of your help and guidance over the years. I'm hoping this is a small way to give back to the community that has helped me so much – and make it easier for the next guy to keep his (or her) Land Cruiser on the road.

Long live old cruisers!

-Seth

Toyota Land Cruiser Parts Catalogs - The Old Cruiser

Everyone who works on old Land Cruisers knows that it’s tough to find replacement parts. Even your local Toyota dealership tends to draw blank stares or a good luck when you say you need to replace something on your early FJ40. While we hear that Toyota purged pre-69 parts records from their...

www.theoldcruiser.com

 

[duncanrm]

Wow.. nice work. I really appreciate the effort you've gone to with this.

 

[S4Cruiser]

So much awesome here!

 

[Coolerman]

Seth, you just made my morning! I was trying to figure out a wiring question a customer with a 1967 FJ40 had asked me that I could not answer. I was coming on here to do a search when I saw your post, went to the site, and had an answer to my question in 30 seconds!

AWESOME!!!

 

[ClemsonCruiser]

Fantastic work Seth! I’ve thought of doing this with my parts book but I don’t have the time or computer skills. Truly awesome contribution to the Cruiser community... bravo!

 

[middlecalf]

If we can only find a youngster to have JP's parts book scanned... hint hint hint.

 

[seth]

Wow.. nice work. I really appreciate the effort you've gone to with this.

It was a labor of love! haha

So much awesome here!

Seth, you just made my morning! I was trying to figure out a wiring question a customer with a 1967 FJ40 had asked me that I could not answer. I was coming on here to do a search when I saw your post, went to the site, and had an answer to my question in 30 seconds!

AWESOME!!!

Thank you! I'm trying to decide if there is a better way to organize the pages and content. I thought about maybe even adding shortcuts at the top of each group page that you could click on and it would scroll you down the page to the spot.

Fantastic work Seth! I’ve thought of doing this with my parts book but I don’t have the time or computer skills. Truly awesome contribution to the Cruiser community... bravo!

If you are willing to send it to me, and have it digitized, I'll do it! Only caveat is I have to (gently) slice the binding apart to get the nice flat scans. It's literally scanning one page at a time, then combining the scans into a single PDF. For the site I broke everything back out into high-res jpg files... hoping Google will pick up the contents.

If we can only find a youngster to have JP's parts book scanned... hint hint hint.

What book does JP have, and is he willing to have it disassembled for the cause?

 

[seth]

Here's the shortcut directly to the FJ40 Parts Catalog from 1967: FJ40 Parts Catalog Index - The Old Cruiser

 

[middlecalf]

JP's got at least one early (early 60's) book that he's been very helpful with scanning individual pictures and parts descriptions to help answer my questions. The only issue with any of the early parts books is most of the parts are not available anymore, but at least it helps to tell what's there or suppose to be there, and who knows, maybe someone's got a part buried in a box somewhere! And breaking any of those early books up is most likely a non-starter because they are (relatively) quite valuable. I think I was looking at a '64-ish one many many moons ago and it was at $800 on the auction site (reserve not met yet), don't know if it ever sold or for what. If I had one, or more, they'd be locked in my gun safe, lol. But I will say as others have said that this is a great service you're providing, thanks!

 

[mrboatman]

Very Very Nice
Thank You
JP

 

[JohnnyC]

mark has these... give credit if used:

For Sale - FREE - PDFs of Parts Catalog Fiche

forum.ih8mud.com

 

[seth]

JP's got at least one early (early 60's) book that he's been very helpful with scanning individual pictures and parts descriptions to help answer my questions. The only issue with any of the early parts books is most of the parts are not available anymore, but at least it helps to tell what's there or suppose to be there, and who knows, maybe someone's got a part buried in a box somewhere! And breaking any of those early books up is most likely a non-starter because they are (relatively) quite valuable. I think I was looking at a '64-ish one many many moons ago and it was at $800 on the auction site (reserve not met yet), don't know if it ever sold or for what. If I had one, or more, they'd be locked in my gun safe, lol. But I will say as others have said that this is a great service you're providing, thanks!

Yeah, I've been seeing them pop up on ebay for $$$ (and I actually bought this one on ebay for quite a bit). There's definitely something nice about having the original copy in hand in the shop, but before they are unavailable or ruined I'm hoping we manage to get at least one digital copy of each version. That is going to mean that either someone sacrifices their physical copy for the cause, or I buy them when I find a deal. The reality is that if the digital copies are available online, maybe the physical ones won't be priced at such a premium?

I'm debating releasing the full combined PDF file of this catalog... is that making it too easy?

 

[seth]

mark has these... give credit if used:

For Sale - FREE - PDFs of Parts Catalog Fiche

forum.ih8mud.com

This is fantastic as well! Glad to see others have done the same!

 

[Coolerman]

I had totally forgotten I was still hosting those files!

I know how long it takes to scan stuff. I scanned my original FSM books. Because they were so dirty (and before I realized they were still available new at the time) I sucked each page into Paint Shop Pro and cleaned them up. I even corrected spelling errors I found! It took probably 100 hours total to do those two books.

 

[JohnnyC]

yes coolerman.... and all your electrical stuff ... a great help for all !!

 

[red66toy]

So awesome!! Thank you for the effort and community spirit!

 

[OGBeno]

I'm debating releasing the full combined PDF file of this catalog... is that making it too easy?

Too easy from what point of view? Either you provide them for free to everyone or you monetize your efforts.

 

[JohnnyC]

The full pdf would be what everybody else has done

It’s also easier for you

 

[seth]

Too easy from what point of view? Either you provide them for free to everyone or you monetize your efforts.

In this case, there's a third consideration – that is in improving the reach and exposure of theoldcruiser.com as a reliable resource to people beyond the MUD community. I know there are a lot of us here, which is why I use this forum to share, but there are a lot more people globally who could benefit from these documents, and being able to find them. Since I probably won't be spending the money on paid ads, I have to rely on organic search traffic.

By providing just the PDF download on that site, I eliminate the organic reach provided with multiple pages of content, and the lift provided by traffic to those pages.

In this case, I agree with you that a PDF is easier for the community on MUD, and for that reason I may actually provide it here once I get the searchable PDF pages formatted.

The full pdf would be what everybody else has done

It’s also easier for you

See above... A PDF is easier, except when I'm formatting it with searchable text. That takes a little more time, and where I'm at now.

 

[tonyl13]

awesome thanks for all the work