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This is the same truck from Hil Probert dealership videos...
here is a quote from a guy who knows alot about larkspur and Hil:
"' 'Toyota Road' which was a road cut straight up through the woods from Madrone Canyon to Fireroad 10 where Probert's Toyota had supposedly tested & filmed Toyota Landcruisers in the early 1960's."
He used customers vehicles and he was even know to be in quite a few...most were registered trucks
bezel is upside down ... Yep... Customers, dealers and even factory manuals are sometimes wrong
early days dealerships did their own advertising...as toyota did not have a national publicity campaign at that time
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Yep… see above
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If you can’t go highway speed with what you have, something is wrong
That's Robert Redford
I have owned F, 2F and V8 FJ40's. All were more than capable of highway speeds. I would look at optimizing your current combination before you give up. (Full transparency, I'm in the middle of a V8/NV4500 swap on mine.) Is the issue that it won't attain the speeds that you want to go or is it that it's loud and seems like it's turning too many RPMs? All the power in the world won't change the RPM situation and all the overdrive/gearing/tires won't fix a sick engine.
I always like to start with a compression test. You can't tune around a dead cylinder.
My 1970 with its rebuilt F motor and 4:11 gears will run 65 no problem but it is loud. I agree with getting your 2F in top running shape before anything else. I’m not opposed to an LS swap but your current motor can do much better.
They all eventually get to speed… my 74’ regularly does … and when I had the 450k motor in it that had two almost dead cylinders also got to 65-70 … but… took awhile to get there 
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I took a different approach with my 73. I never considered an engine swap; I like the characteristics of the stock six. I wanted better highway performance, but I also wanted a lower crawl ratio. I didn't want a five-speed because of the ultra-short driveshaft that results. Instead, I swapped my 4.11 diff gears for 3.70s. That put my highway rpms at 2,500@65mph with my 235/85x16 tires. At the same time I installed an H41 transmission with the 4.9:1 first gear, along with a split transfer case and Sumo low range gears from Cruiser Outfitters. Now I have a comfortable (well, relatively speaking) 65mph highway vehicle that also has a 54:1 crawl ratio (compared to the stock three-speed transfer case's 26:1).
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