So you want to stretch your FJ40...

[Ditcherman]

Apologies for the delayed responses. I appreciate the help!


Absolutely, assuming you haven't already left. This is taking me a lot more time than I thought!


Very interested in leg room! Im hoping that the chassis extension allows me to move the seat back another 2-3 inches. I'll have to see though. The pillar might be too much in the way. I took a look at some of the Tacoma builds but didn't find anything that approaches what you described yet. Just Scooping out the front wheel wells to fit oversized tires.


Found it in A10Driver's epic build. When it comes time to remount the engine, I think I'm going to do it.


My father and I share a honey business. Sometimes I transport bees, honey barrels, and jars of honey over farm roads and city roads. I currently use a 2WD truck for this, but I think the land cruiser will offer me more sanity for bad weather days. (Although my primary motivation in doing the swap/extension is just that I want the project). I don't do anything else agriculturally.



Yah, $500 for the fleece. The dual radiator set up sounds really nice. Do you run a stock pump/pulley with it? I guess the 1" circuit wouldn't be too much to handle, if it's draining into the bottom radiator hose. Do you run the tubing in the frame on the passenger side?


So the arrangement has vertically stacked radiators with a pulling fan? Or do you have them separated with two different fans? I'm really hoping I can get away with a front grill radiator/intercooler set up. And AC too....that's the dream but we will see. I read that the mechanical fan offers 8-10k cfm when it's motivated.

Sorry I didn’t explain the radiator setup very well.
I have one radiator up front with dual electric fans.
Absolutely no room for an air to air intercooler on mine. That intercooler thickness is about how much you’ll need to move your firewall back, I’m thinking.
I am running whatever pulleys were on the engine out of the straight truck, minus the fan mount. The AC compressor is mounted top left-ish and the belt wraps nicely around everything.
1” rubber hose runs from the heater output (left side of block between 5 and 6 iirc)through the frame rails or wherever to the rear, basically alongside the 3/4” intercooler hose, and those two radiators are mounted separately with individual fans. Intercooler fan runs with the key on, aux radiator runs with 180* temp switch mounted in radiator inlet.

Here’s some pics, first in is from under the trans looking back past the tcase.
Not great pics, but if you zoom in you can also see the intercooler pump in there.