Restoration FJ62 Ongoing

[TexasLandCruiser]

Sam says here’s your sign. Smitty front seats were an easy swap no structural changes to rails and CC interior. CCOT supplied the Aussie loop carpet kit. They discontinued that cause the heel pad at drivers foot doesn’t match the floor and very discouraged. But nothing throwing a floor mat over won’t fix. Next time I’ll send dash pad off to be redone and still need to die the plastic window switch. I’ve got brown SEM paint just need to mask and be done

 

[TexasLandCruiser]

Blower 2 pin connector has seen its day, found some decent ones online for fix. Didn’t realize what a beating wire bundles take and my wrapping process has come to Tesa 51036, it’s the one on the left that has a ribbon finish. Their felt like finish looks great but edges frey quickly, if you don’t terminate the end well it’s coming undone. Electrical tape is electrical tape, what I have found is wet conditions closed harnesses hang on to moisture very bad, 51036 though has a close weave it breaths. I’m grateful for online access to “how-to” but it’s too much and so if I post something that’s been beaten to death that probably cause I got panicky on page 49 of how-to tap into a harness signal feed. Early on as a beginner to cruisers I asked a lot of questions and needed help, many helped and a handful of pricks, I choose the winners

 

[TexasLandCruiser]

Picked up some 2 pin connectors and was exact fit, some wire protection and wrap up. Last summer my blower was acting strangely and looked down there and the power side only had a few strands hanging on. All good now

 

[TexasLandCruiser]

This evening finished cleaning up the wiring behind the radio, years of previous owner upgrades they never slowed down to nip and tuck. Cut out old satellite wiring that had to have been 25 foot, coiled up in a ball, zip tied to harness pushing on everything. Connectors and speedo cable going in tomorrow. Found a new one at CCOT ready for pick up. I even found a chocolate wrapper 20 years old

 

[TexasLandCruiser]

Saturday night messing around with some post trip things that have been bugging me. Preface this with its hard to get a bead on anything when it’s 109 degrees outside but made progress. Flowed some Chemtool through the rails. Pretty sure I picked up some junk gas on the way to Colorado SAS so 100% B12 and good balance between rails now. I had a cam sensor fault and to rule out actual issue pulled the harness and put a new ACD on. Harness continuity was good and so far so good. Spoke to PowerMaster in Chicago last week and he did the math with me to identify correct pulley to bump my RPMs up and hit the spot. Idle RPM volts were suffering. Heavy load now around 13.3 to 13.6. Never seen that high. Also rewired the alternator with a better direct path to battery and tech guy said add a ground to bracket. Heavy load pulling 85 amps where as before best I could get was 65. It was struggling.

 

[TexasLandCruiser]

Ran across FlexTech and they have the coolest hose heat wrap. With under hood temps peaking 150 with ambient temps 110-120 helped bring down some heat soaking. Wrapped my intake with some extra Kevlar and glass I had. Also found a starter shield that fit over my MAF and helped a ton. False high temps. Amp load at positive side of Pain relay distribution box lined up with what was actually going on with fan, fuel pump and ignition.

 

[TexasLandCruiser]

The wiring guy did a piss poor job of tapping the harness to feed the computer and relays, had to dig way deep to find this 12 volt connection. Also since he pulled the power off the alternator it has never seen stable current so rewired it up to battery to buffer. Rewrapped the main harness and cleaned up well. Found 6 butt connectors between relay box and fuel pump. Checked the 02 and drivers side wasn’t even torqued, I could have untightened by hand. All better now

 

[chelo]

That is one beautiful looking 62.

 

[TexasLandCruiser]

That is one beautiful looking 62.

Thank you, started with a little red toolbox and 1 car garage, a lot of questions to the usual grumpy guys on here. I’ve found my groove.

 

[chelo]

Thank you, started with a little red toolbox and 1 car garage, a lot of questions to the usual grumpy guys on here. I’ve found my groove.

That's all it takes. I like all your detail work and thanks for the tip on flextech.

 

[TexasLandCruiser]

That's all it takes. I like all your detail work and thanks for the tip on flextech.

I had the words flipped. It’s Techflex. Here’s there high temp catalog.

High Temperature | Techflex.com

Don’t get caught with heat-damaged or melted wires. Extreme Temperature Sleeving is state or the art high temperature material engineering.

www.techflex.com

 

[jesus888]

Followed... all EXCELLENT work bud!

 

[TexasLandCruiser]

Here’s one for you. The carb fan hole seemed like a missed opportunity for the high heat the LS platform produces. After I added the Champion radiator and Spal fan it was moving so much air my issues were no longer with engine cooling but fuel, sensors and wires are so hot seemed to negatively affect everything, essentially doubling my issues but removed my cooling. Guess a good problem to have if you have one.

Keep in mind this is Texas and at around 105 things get weird. Mainly under highway speeds. A few folks have said wench or fog lights can split the air pressure and kill your positive pressure flowing through. I tried rotating my IPF light out of the slipstream and made no difference. Think I fixed it and was mainly all the foam seals around ac and radiator. Still working on the fitment of the Spal retro fit carb fan thingy. 350cfm Manual switched to dash. This will only be for traffic, lights and WHEELIN and parking lot cool down when less than 30 minutes. I’ve got a 1000cca Yellow Top Optima and it’ll handle pretty much anything. The fender fan is only 3 amp draw so minimal impact.

Notice the old radiator fan and bracket. Didnt seem like much but Toyota Technical met with me to address some cooling. The surface area of old setup that was pulling was around 1.5sf, the BTB shroud and fan was 2.5sf area. Huge improvement

 

[TexasLandCruiser]

Previous owner photo shoot was cool. Guess he’s kinda a big thing in Californication. The shop he used for 8 years kinda cash cowed him and he and I are square now. The day of this 2nd photo I broke down near Sicario on the border. Think they filmed a movie about cartel there. Needless to say I kind stood out broke down in the desert east of San Diego. Sun was setting and there was a customs and border patrol war going on and an armored car stopped with machine guns a bro said we got to get you outta here. So they helped me get to checkpoint Charlie. Waited there until nightfall and then bugged out to El Paso traveling from sundown to sunup

 

[TexasLandCruiser]

Chasing vacuum leaks and replaced intake gasket today. Used some carb cleaner and get some spikes in fuel trims. Brake booster hoses were leaking like crazy as well. Wondered why pedal went to the floor descending Alpine Loop

 

[TexasLandCruiser]

Fuel trim after booster hoses and new gasket. Scanner before and after

 

[TexasLandCruiser]

Recently decided to finish up the grounds and power cables. Went to cutting everything off, replace the lugs and got another 1 volt out of normal operating range. Any old lugs that were soldered and not crimped I melted the old stuff out and Reyes the lugs. Crimp and shrink tube

 

[TexasLandCruiser]

Finished up changing all my power cables. I had a problem develop over the last week that made me go back and look at the quality of my lugs on all my power connections. I checked for some resistance and sure as s***. So one by one I removed and crimped all new cables. Tonight added some of the remaining insulated fuel line wrap to main run from back to front. Flak jacket stuff that takes 2 hands to cut with cable cutters. Every time I’m under I look at the vulnerability of the fuel lines so covered them. If stuff can hang up on my differentials why not catch my fuel lines.

 

[TexasLandCruiser]

The fan in the fender has done well. It pulls outside air through side vent and air in front of grill. 350cfm moves a lot of air. Really gets rid of the heat soak on bad days. 5” Spal pulls 3 amp. I have since secured the mount bracket with bolts to factory holes and floated the bracket on a rubber gasket.

 

[TexasLandCruiser]

Earlier on I mentioned smoothing out the differentials where there was slag, did this before repainting. It was tedious but looked nice when done. Also seen here is trimming ubolts. Those are some hard metal.