- Year
- 1988
- Vehicle Model
- 60 Series
- Mileage
- 232864
After putting less than a hundred miles in the past couple years, the time has come to sell our 1988 FJ-62 Land Cruiser. We've had it for close to a decade, spent many miles exploring and enjoying it, just with a new little one see ourselves driving our 80 and don't have the time to really make the 62 shine like it deserves.
Currently has 232,864 miles and clean title in our names.
Body is in decent shape for an almost 40 year old vehicle, typical dings and paint wear. Couple years ago I rolled a log into the drivers front fender, spent just enough time to hammer it close to shape then shoot it with some 'color matched' paint from Napa. It's close but not exact, plus I'm no body guy.
When we got it is had the typical gutter seam sealer cracking and flaking off. Spent a weekend picking it our and re-sealing then painting with the same paint, never had the time to fix the rust other than wire brushing it down and shooting to rust converter and paint over it.
Also many years ago the city sprayed the white fog line on the road it was parked on, and well got some globs on the body and of course never took care of the problem...
Good:
2" OME springs
Aussie locker in rear
33x10.50 A/Ts, including spare
Smog pump removed, added a york compressor which seized a year ago and has been removed. Bracket and belt included.
Inside the frame collector back to the middle, then scabbed together exhaust from there back...
ARB rear bumper
Homemade front bumper with recovery points and rebuilt 8274
Low profile roof rack with light bar, side lights and awning
Bussman aux fuse box with relays
A/C works
Oil pan gasket replaced last winter, surprisingly no drips on the ground. Just a damp bellhousing if you touch it
Recent flushed radiator and engine
Aisin water pump, fan clutch, thermostat and hoses replaced recently and aluminum radiator was added due to original starting to leak. See below..
Bosch high and low sealed lights, big improvement.
GM mirror with temperature gauge and compass. Sometime temperature shows super low, but always bounces back.
Tub of random bits we have collected and saved.
2WD low mod
Not good, not bad:
Doesn't overheat when climbing our big passes, but does get warm. Cools off quickly, even in the past summer. Really could use a thicker OE size radiator at some point.
Needs rear half of exhaust replaced. Current works, but is showing its age and wear
Body is solid other than a some spots around. Under back hatch, top of a-pillar which I never fixed when sealing the gutter other than above. Among other that I'm sure I missed
Frame has surface rust in spots, and no rot. Seems like a west coast car. East coast would call it rust free, west coast would call it clean with some surface rust in spots.
Engine could use valve adjusted. Plugs, wires, cap, rotor and air cleaner replaced in the recently.
Trans is dumb, like most. When cold and parked for a while needs manually shifted for the first time, then works fine. Has never given us any problems, just a funny thing you
should know.
Two different seats, drivers side is rougher under the seat covers. Dumb situation. Started a seat swap, ran out of motivation after discarding original...
Drivers window switch can be touchy when going down.
This has been a great vehicle for us, taken us all over Oregon and many trips to the mountains around without problems. I wouldn't hesitate to drive anywhere, but if I told you
it wouldn't give you any problems it would probably melt into the ground across the street from us..
Trying to get pictures of the chassis and body dings, but weather hasn't cooperated. Will add when I get them
Located in Phoenix Oregon. $12,000
Currently has 232,864 miles and clean title in our names.
Body is in decent shape for an almost 40 year old vehicle, typical dings and paint wear. Couple years ago I rolled a log into the drivers front fender, spent just enough time to hammer it close to shape then shoot it with some 'color matched' paint from Napa. It's close but not exact, plus I'm no body guy.
When we got it is had the typical gutter seam sealer cracking and flaking off. Spent a weekend picking it our and re-sealing then painting with the same paint, never had the time to fix the rust other than wire brushing it down and shooting to rust converter and paint over it.
Also many years ago the city sprayed the white fog line on the road it was parked on, and well got some globs on the body and of course never took care of the problem...
Good:
2" OME springs
Aussie locker in rear
33x10.50 A/Ts, including spare
Smog pump removed, added a york compressor which seized a year ago and has been removed. Bracket and belt included.
Inside the frame collector back to the middle, then scabbed together exhaust from there back...
ARB rear bumper
Homemade front bumper with recovery points and rebuilt 8274
Low profile roof rack with light bar, side lights and awning
Bussman aux fuse box with relays
A/C works
Oil pan gasket replaced last winter, surprisingly no drips on the ground. Just a damp bellhousing if you touch it
Recent flushed radiator and engine
Aisin water pump, fan clutch, thermostat and hoses replaced recently and aluminum radiator was added due to original starting to leak. See below..
Bosch high and low sealed lights, big improvement.
GM mirror with temperature gauge and compass. Sometime temperature shows super low, but always bounces back.
Tub of random bits we have collected and saved.
2WD low mod
Not good, not bad:
Doesn't overheat when climbing our big passes, but does get warm. Cools off quickly, even in the past summer. Really could use a thicker OE size radiator at some point.
Needs rear half of exhaust replaced. Current works, but is showing its age and wear
Body is solid other than a some spots around. Under back hatch, top of a-pillar which I never fixed when sealing the gutter other than above. Among other that I'm sure I missed
Frame has surface rust in spots, and no rot. Seems like a west coast car. East coast would call it rust free, west coast would call it clean with some surface rust in spots.
Engine could use valve adjusted. Plugs, wires, cap, rotor and air cleaner replaced in the recently.
Trans is dumb, like most. When cold and parked for a while needs manually shifted for the first time, then works fine. Has never given us any problems, just a funny thing you
should know.
Two different seats, drivers side is rougher under the seat covers. Dumb situation. Started a seat swap, ran out of motivation after discarding original...
Drivers window switch can be touchy when going down.
This has been a great vehicle for us, taken us all over Oregon and many trips to the mountains around without problems. I wouldn't hesitate to drive anywhere, but if I told you
it wouldn't give you any problems it would probably melt into the ground across the street from us..
Trying to get pictures of the chassis and body dings, but weather hasn't cooperated. Will add when I get them
Located in Phoenix Oregon. $12,000
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