new to list - BJ75 Found!

[crushers]

i bought a 78 FJ45 a few years back. drove up, looked it over, it had not been started for 5 years. when he bought it the truck ran. a week later it quit and he just left it there. i monkeyed with it for about 5 minutes and i got it running. put air in the tires and i drove it 4 hours home.
if you know cruisers then go for it, if you do not then rent a trailer or a tow bar and tow it home. nothing worse than being at the mercy of the local tow truck driver...

 

[Landpimp]

only after 75-ish.......really, there was no FF at ALL in a cruiser untill around then, US, Canada , Aus, ect.

Yes I have a 76 canadian fj45 FF in my 66 US fj45

Landpimp, all the 45s that came to canada had FF rears. maybe that is why the state boys covet our 45s, eh?
;^)
thanks guys for the compliment, i thought it turned out quite well but then when you are the one doing the work you can get a bit biased...
cheers
Wayne

 

[crushers]

cool, that expalins why i have never seen a Canadian spec FJ45 pre 1976...
also explains why there was no LSD before then...
excellent, learn something new each day...
thanks Landpimp...
cheers

 

[Landpimp]

no problem.........not like I haven't learned anything from you

yeah I wondering when canada got the 45LPB, never have seen a 1960, early 70's out of canada.......

cool, that expalins why i have never seen a Canadian spec FJ45 pre 1976...
also explains why there was no LSD before then...
excellent, learn something new each day...
thanks Landpimp...
cheers

 

[crushers]

according to the mico June 1976...

 

[roscoFJ73]

Are all the BJ75 4sp? I assumed that as the BJ70 were 5sp that all the B motor variants would have a h55f behind them.
Not that the mine would need 5th anyway
And would it have front discs?
Some of the real poverty pack 60 series were still drums all round into the mid 80s

 

[roscoFJ73]

Tow it home and put a squirt of oil in each cylinder a day or 2 before startup. Those bores will be dry after 2 years of no action.

 

[Landpimp]

my understanding was ALL 70 series were 5 speeds or auto's.

Are all the BJ75 4sp? I assumed that as the BJ70 were 5sp that all the B motor variants would have a h55f behind them.
Not that the mine would need 5th anyway
And would it have front discs?
Some of the real poverty pack 60 series were still drums all round into the mid 80s

 

[mikeyT]

my understanding was ALL 70 series were 5 speeds or auto's.

Some, if not all, of the PZJ75 mine trucks that were shopped through Ottawa some 5 years ago had a 4 speed tranny. According to the guy who sold them (there were 40 or so trucks of several models all told), the 4 speeds were the same as found in manual 4Runners. He had 4 of those tranny/TC combos as spare parts, but I never bothered to verify further once I saw there was no fifth.