Land Cruiser Parts Catalogs

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More knowledge shared. Thanks Cruiser Nerd and JohnnyC. Love the sticker on the rear panel of the first truck in the picture above.

The binding of the book has already separated from the cover, which is why it wouldn't be difficult to use a standard copy machine for the scanning. But yes, a camera would definitely be less stressful on it so I'll likely go that route. Just need to get the right lighting. The nice thing is that it's 100% intact. No torn or missing pages and just a few hand-written notations. I was fortunate to recently acquire it, as well as a few more. The plan is to open source the four that I have. I'll take a few pics of the other three after work today.
 
dmamj said:
More knowledge shared. Thanks Cruiser Nerd and JohnnyC. Love the sticker on the rear panel of the first truck in the picture above.

The binding of the book has already separated from the cover, which is why it wouldn't be difficult to use a standard copy machine for the scanning. But yes, a camera would definitely be less stressful on it so I'll likely go that route. Just need to get the right lighting. The nice thing is that it's 100% intact. No torn or missing pages and just a few hand-written notations. I was fortunate to recently acquire it, as well as a few more. The plan is to open source the four that I have. I'll take a few pics of the other three after work today.
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Let me know if I can help — I know it’s tedious scanning individual pages. I had to adjust settings on my scanner until it didn’t show the bleedthrough of the backside of the pages.
 
would love for the Land Cruiser Heritage Museum @cruiserdan to keep a digital library

Owners Manuals
Parts Catalogs
FSM's
Service bulletins
Literature
Sales data
Historical Information (cruiser specific)
 
JohnnyC said:
would love for the Land Cruiser Heritage Museum @cruiserdan to keep a digital library

Owners Manuals
Parts Catalogs
FSM's
Service bulletins
Literature
Sales data
Historical Information (cruiser specific)
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That has been discussed and is a long-term goal.

what's really sad though is the catalogs are now basically "Look at what's been discontinued.":crybaby:
 
Here's a catalog printed in Nov 1957 to cover model year 1958 FJ28 & 28. 179 pages. Binding in rough shape but 100% complete. Pages look good. Had to take a pic of the tool page again!

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Then here are July 1963 FJ40-43 and FJ40V catalogs, both for model year 1963 years.

They are fortunate enough to be in excellent condition. Good for value I guess, but it's gonna make for tough scanning. Bindings are pretty darn tight - nearly perfect really. 100% complete and don't think there is a scribble or bend on any of the pages.

The 40V is 174 pages and the 40/43 is 333 pages.

Pics 2, 3, & 4 are from the 174 pg 40V catalog. No tool group.

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These are fantastic!
 
@dmamj you are keeping everyone in suspense with that BJ25 catalog!
 
Sorry Seth! Work gets in the way of the important stuff!

The 1956 BJ25 catalog is imaged and open sourced to all. Here's a link:

www.theoldcruiser.com

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 www.theoldcruiser.com

Seth, thanks for hosting it on your website. Hope it is valuable to those MUDDERS in need. Enjoy.

Dan
 
Awesome @seth. I have done work like this and like @Coolerman said, it takes WAY more time than the end user will ever consider. I drive a later truck, but I still wish I had found even something like this 5 years ago when I started. My dad was not a car guy, so anything I know is information that I have sourced. It's been a lot of digging with a few mistake parts purchases along the way. I am planning to drive my finally "redone" truck home this weekend from my buddies restoration garage. When I say "redone" I mean driveable again for the first time in 5 years. Then I can take a slower more thoughtful/careful approach to the wiring harness. Without the resources like this (and now digging into the stuff Coolerman has provided to the community), I might have gotten too frustrated to continue. I feel like I owe you each some refreshing beverages (not even close to the value you have provided).

High five!
 
Hey everyone, and happy new year! It's been a while since the last catalog, but Mud user @joestewart sent me his November 1967 catalog to scan and I just finally got it completed. His copy was actually a photocopy so it's all black and white, and there may only be slight differences from the September 67, but here it is!

www.theoldcruiser.com

FJ40 Parts Catalog Nov 1967 - The Old Cruiser

November 1967 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ40 Parts Catalog – No. 93648-67 FULL CATALOG PDF Special thanks to Joel for sending us his catalog for scanning! If you have a catalog that you’d like us to scan and provide as a resource for others, please submit your information here.
www.theoldcruiser.com www.theoldcruiser.com

Long live old cruisers!
 
Nice Job 👍
JP
 
With the catalogs from the 1950s and 1960s, I find the images from some of the illustrations to be very interesting--a number of them vary within the early to late versions of the same years. Parts are changed mid-year and the illustrations are then changed. Successive catalogs often make no mention of the updated part. Comparing with a few of the catalogs I have, I see the covers themselves can even have slight variations.

So from a research point of view, it's almost necessary to have each of the modified catalogs to be certain of parts that could appear during a production year. There were factory revision memos sent out for some changes, but not for all, and probably those were long lost and separated from the old catalogs seen on the open market today. Several rather large catalogs I have, specify changes based on the frame serial numbers, and the illustrations are provided for each variation. In some cases this is due to the changeover from JIS to ISO specs for various fasteners, and thus the components that use or receive those fasteners. Interchangeability can become a problem in some cases.

As the company grew and expanded, the factory catalogs from the 1970s and 1980s seem to have addressed the variations in the same part by listing each variation by its specific part number, destination market, and date period when installed. I have suggested before that for someone attempting a period-correct restoration, only the original factory-retained build sheet for a specific vehicle, would be the final judge of the originality of any restoration. Since this info isn't available, "correctness" is open for interpretation. And the early catalogs are one of the better ways to approach authenticity.

Happy to see the great efforts at reproducing these old catalogs.

My 2 cents.
 
Man, I forgot about this effort.

I donated my entire Toyota parts catalog collection (well over 30 books) to the LC museum.

I don’t know if there are any plans to digitize those. I doubt it.

Oh well.

Good luck with this endeavor.
 
JohnnyC said:
would love for the Land Cruiser Heritage Museum @cruiserdan to keep a digital library

Owners Manuals
Parts Catalogs
FSM's
Service bulletins
Literature
Sales data
Historical Information (cruiser specific)
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Interesting that you mentioned the service bulletins Johnny. When I opened my shop in 1990 the dealerships were still getting dead-tree price catalogs every three months. Those paper catalogs had the service bulletins in them. When I asked the parts guy if they had them, they did. I spent some quality geek time looking through them.

I remember going through five lines of coding for the factory replacement canvas only to realize on the last line was a six digit PN that matched that of Kayline’s replacement top.

They had become the OE vendor.
 
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