Hello from Central Texas, new to me 1991 FJ80 that has been sitting since around 2019 or so. Pulled out of a barn in an estate that I was fortunate enough to get first dibs on, I have been blown away at the condition of the 34 year old rig! It has been stored with the hood opened, under a roof. The dash board has one hairline crack in it, otherwise almost perfect so already got a carpet cover on it.
While inspecting it before pulling the trigger on buying it, I pulled all the plugs and put a little mystery oil down the cylinders while I replaced fuel filter and drained old gas. My eternal gratitude to the engineer that decided to give us a drain plug on the fuel tank! With some fresh gas and a new fuel filter, I put the (nice and clean) plugs back in and it happily roared back to life and drove itself on to the trailer.
After getting it back home and starting to tinker with it, I just kept finding myself surprised how everywhere I looked, I did not find anything puking grease or oil like I would expect for such an old rig that had been neglected for the past couple years....Until I cleaned out the glovebox! Found the receipt for the engine being rebuilt back in 2001 when it had 160 some odd thousand miles on it, so it's only got around 20k miles on the rebuilt engine! Score!!
With that really encouraging find, I am even more excited about getting the mighty Landcruiser back up on the road and "daily" level reliable again.
My plan is to (as much as possible) replace everything with OEM Toyota parts, change every fluid, grease every zirk, replace everything rubber or plastic under the hood and have it looking like it's 1991 again for the most part. If I get bored with it, need/want to repower it or just stumble across the right engine to replace the 3FE with, I may eventually repower it and at that point would look to start lift/overland style stuff.
Right now, I'm happy thinking about it just being an "in town" errand runner and dedicated fishing/adventure mobile!
Now for the part number: 9092301375
This is the fuel inlet hose that feeds the fuel filter from the tank. Banjo bolt connecting to filter, other end flared on to the factory hard line. It's all swollen and looks like it is not much longer for the world. Actually leaking a tiny bit already (scary to find after it idling and at temp), so need to remedy ASAP.
I found an old post in here from a guy in about the same situation, resolution there was to have a local shop either repair it or made him a new one. I'll go that route if needed, but wanted to check in here first to see if maybe someone has a source?
Thanks all!
While inspecting it before pulling the trigger on buying it, I pulled all the plugs and put a little mystery oil down the cylinders while I replaced fuel filter and drained old gas. My eternal gratitude to the engineer that decided to give us a drain plug on the fuel tank! With some fresh gas and a new fuel filter, I put the (nice and clean) plugs back in and it happily roared back to life and drove itself on to the trailer.
After getting it back home and starting to tinker with it, I just kept finding myself surprised how everywhere I looked, I did not find anything puking grease or oil like I would expect for such an old rig that had been neglected for the past couple years....Until I cleaned out the glovebox! Found the receipt for the engine being rebuilt back in 2001 when it had 160 some odd thousand miles on it, so it's only got around 20k miles on the rebuilt engine! Score!!
With that really encouraging find, I am even more excited about getting the mighty Landcruiser back up on the road and "daily" level reliable again.
My plan is to (as much as possible) replace everything with OEM Toyota parts, change every fluid, grease every zirk, replace everything rubber or plastic under the hood and have it looking like it's 1991 again for the most part. If I get bored with it, need/want to repower it or just stumble across the right engine to replace the 3FE with, I may eventually repower it and at that point would look to start lift/overland style stuff.
Right now, I'm happy thinking about it just being an "in town" errand runner and dedicated fishing/adventure mobile!
Now for the part number: 9092301375
This is the fuel inlet hose that feeds the fuel filter from the tank. Banjo bolt connecting to filter, other end flared on to the factory hard line. It's all swollen and looks like it is not much longer for the world. Actually leaking a tiny bit already (scary to find after it idling and at temp), so need to remedy ASAP.
I found an old post in here from a guy in about the same situation, resolution there was to have a local shop either repair it or made him a new one. I'll go that route if needed, but wanted to check in here first to see if maybe someone has a source?
Thanks all!
