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and to everyone else just a g`day really. i have been slowly building my own house at a new location on the family farm and moved in about a month ago. this has taken much of my limited cash and spare time and most of my evenings but its getting livable. internet was somewhere towards the bottom of the list of neccessary services and my tentative connection (of several days) still needs further work. anyway (as previously mentioned) at the close of this month the girl and i are off on a holiday that hopefully incorporates a couple days sobriety to relocate my newly purchased and unseen 25 tray to her parents shed in port augusta.

in closing i am still with the team (albeit sidelined in the reserves) and should be back with more 25 photos next month.

SOUTH AUSSIE - drop me a pm with your phone number would like to drop by while i in your state
 
foxfab said:
I have a good FJ25 front crossmember. But its out of a LHD if that matters.
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Aussie 25 said:
Done a bit of research on the frount crossmember. The FJ25 PN 51201-60020 is the same as the 4# series up to 6-1969. To save cutting a good 25 chassis up, you may find a 4# series one.:cheers:
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I think the RHD vs LHD could be a pretty easy fix. The bell crank for the steering would be the only difference. If the holes weren't there to mount it you could drill and bolt the bell crank on instead of rivets.

On being the same as the FJ40 that was only true on the mid 1960 and later FJ25s. Or at least true for the LHD FJ25s imported to the US. The earlier ones were totally different. Someone with 1959 parts book should have correct part number for the earlier one. All I have is the 63 parts book that had the updated ten digit part number as well as old part numbers. It was common for Toyota to change a design then shorty after that only offer the new one with the idea you would have to make it work if you had the earlier one. Not that it would do any good I have a few early sixties Toyota parts books that converted all Toyota parts number over from their old numbering system to the new. If someone has the old original number for the old crossmember I could tell if Toyota even offered the after the switch and gave it a ten digit number.
 
I have a Aprl 1960 parts book and the PN FJ36 51102 right hand drive and FJ25L 51102 for the left hand drive. The one West Aussie is a 1960 RH drive.
Living in the Past said:
I think the RHD vs LHD could be a pretty easy fix. The bell crank for the steering would be the only difference. If the holes weren't there to mount it you could drill and bolt the bell crank on instead of rivets.

On being the same as the FJ40 that was only true on the mid 1960 and later FJ25s. Or at least true for the LHD FJ25s imported to the US. The earlier ones were totally different. Someone with 1959 parts book should have correct part number for the earlier one. All I have is the 63 parts book that had the updated ten digit part number as well as old part numbers. It was common for Toyota to change a design then shorty after that only offer the new one with the idea you would have to make it work if you had the earlier one. Not that it would do any good I have a few early sixties Toyota parts books that converted all Toyota parts number over from their old numbering system to the new. If someone has the old original number for the old crossmember I could tell if Toyota even offered the after the switch and gave it a ten digit number.
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Aussie 25 said:
I have a Aprl 1960 parts book and the PN FJ36 51102 right hand drive and FJ25L 51102 for the left hand drive. The one West Aussie is a 1960 RH drive.
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I'll have to check my later parts book to see what numbers they have. I have four FJ25s that the VIN starts with 0 so all four are 1960 production. Two have the earlier crossmember and two have the later one like the FJ40s. The two earlier ones also have the taller tool box under the left side seat. The engine switched from a F120 to the F135 durng the 1960 production run of the FJ25s. If all three of these changes happened at the same time who knows. But knowing Toyota I doubt it.:cheers:
 
well g`day there punters i am back after an extended leave of absence from the internet and ive got a fair bit of catching up to do. in summary i did poach a day out of my holidays as mentioned and relocate my 25 tray to a shed in port augusta. to achieve this i left at 2am and got back at 10pm that night having done a neat 1800km with a car trailer. thats somewhere on the wrong side of 1100 miles i reckon. (south aussie i did blast past a couple strathalbyn exits just before dawn but knew you were away). anyway i have a pile of photos here somewhere to show you when ive got a little time. have to say im happy with the old girl; she has a nice patina. front crossmember shot exactly as described by the po and there is a little other chassis damage. couple small pieces of cab rust. front 25 diff has been swapped out for a later one at some point. one aussie doorhandle assembly missing. entire aussie directional indicator assembly has been removed or never fitted. this includes the pop up indicators, aussie indicator switch and even the small round dashboard lenses. po says the tojo was fitted with old truck style `tin hand on a stick`indicators at purchase (sorta interesting) and he fitted the current aftermarket assembly. a better study of the wiring harness may yield a few clues. po a very nice old farmer who bought the tojo 2nd hand in (i think) 1971. we talked for a couple hours and he is posting me a couple pages of remeniscences and history about the old traybacks working life. also a copy of his 1971 reciept. he doesnt think he has any photos but is having a look for me. its nice to keep a little history of the vehicle intact i think. if we preserve these cars now they will outlive us all many times over. i thought he was going to cry when i drove away. anyway after a sleepin i had one short day to play.
 
i pulled the seats and fuel tank and cleaned the cab as best i could. you know the deal; strange state, someone elses shed, borrowed tools. what i would have given for some compressed air! original jack and all handle pieces. canvas toolroll (missing most pieces). tin fuse box cover with fj25 printed on it. nice unmolested engine bay (wiring harness, generator, master cylinders, carby, ir cleaner, hand primer lift pump etc). 5 original rims. anyway with some clean fuel and a once over of the points we got the old girl to fire up briefly. wish i had taken a thermostat housing with me (po had told me it was shot) so we could have plumbed up a little water and fiddled longer. engine seems sound enough anyhow. an absolute bloody tease really. ( i phoned the po to his delight that night and told him we had made a little noise) so the old tojo is 900km closer but still 2600 km away from its new home. it is however in a shed and standing patiently beside the trans australia highway waiting for my next move. the next day i rounded up my long suffering girlfriend, stashed the canvas toolroll carefully in with my clothes, did a crazy dash through airport car rental returns and flew back to western australia.
 
and so we blew into perth. it was fri 12 aug and we were all set for one more weekend of partying before declaring this holiday over. that night my older brother david died in a car accident. he was 51 and left a wife and 4 sons aged 11 to 17. next morning we had to front a perth boarding school and collect 3 of my nephews for the 600km drive home. sad times people, but life goes on. we sought and gained approval to bury my brother on the old family farm; an arduous but not impossible trundle through beaurocracy.

anyhow cath (davids wife) had an idea that the traditional hearse arrangment was unfitting and she wished his remains to be hauled to rest on the back of a landcruiser. david lived in landcruisers by neccessity through the life he led. of course he died in one. (for the record he died after hitting a beast that night on a remote dirt road between sandstone and wiluna). and so my old 1964 fj45 was dragged out of slumber in the back of the shed. (one day i will do a proper thread on this old tojo; many things about her may amuse you). there was much to organise (we hosted the wake at the old family homestead). my good friend dan arrived and leapt straight into the 64. sterling work. carby overhaul, clutch hydraulics, reinstall trans hump and fit the freshly retrimmed seats, many many little things. he lined the tray with red carpet. and so the old tojo led a vast crowd of over 500 mourners down to the gravesite beneath a gidgee tree. cath sat up front and daves 4 sons sat on the back with the coffin. slim dusty sang the immortal `axe mark on a gidgee` and daves 4 surviving brothers lowered him into the earth.
 
anyway punters thought this little story may interest you all. as you may imagine i am a bit preoccupied with all sorts of things at present but will be back in full force shortly. im probably already out of order here so lets not drag condolances into this thread; its not the place for them.

now to completley change the subject i am interested in the old 120 motor. what are the physical differences to its 135 sister? how to identify them? same block better tuned?
 
That is an amazing read right there, sounds like a strong family, which is what you all need right now. ;)


As far as the F120 goes I don't know what internally they did if anything. But externally the block is not drilled for the front motor mounts, the pads are there but unfinished. Also the casting marks on the head are different, there's a picture around here somewhere.
 
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well punters i am honing my computer skills. if this works it several snaps of the old 25 on arrival in port augusta
 
well this is momentous for me punters. i managed to get these images off a disc, onto my computer and into your jealous eyesight without either girlfriend or nephews help. walk on the moon stuff for old technologically challenged west aussie!
so you like her? hows that sexy fuse box cover. and brake pedal pad; reckon its an original? what about the condensation free fuel tank. and the little ribbed park light lenses. the unmolested engine bay.

and that home made looking rod under the oil filter that bolts firewall to chassis on both sides of engine (same as my old 25 bones) do all aussies have that? its a good clue re aussie bodybuilders. fwed and aussie25 ill be looking more closely at your old posted photos.
 
the seats are in good condition. po tells me he never had any trim work done since he bought it in 1971. think its original trim or been replaced earlier?
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you may notice the missing indicator paraphanalia. the dash hole to the right of the gear changing instructions is where i believe the aussie indicator switch should be. also the defence department branded tyre mou nted as the spare. not a military vehicle of course but the po has poached an old army tyre from somewhere. finally jumper leads, funnels, jerry cans and beer. tells its own story really. thats my girlfriends grandfather looking on. a nice old man and a ww2 veteran.
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well that will more than do me for now. undoubtedly the most computer filled day of my humble career. i wasnt going to do photos today but then i read all the moaning in fj25 chat thread about lack of action so i decided to step up. been also nice to get my mind focused away from more pressing issues for a spell. hope you all find something of interest here. i like her. shes got a few issues but unpainted unmolested 25 trays just dont sort of turn up. thanks again for the heads up fwed. cant wait to get her home; even more so now my 64 was bumped along. i rewired my car trailer yesterday before i even realised id done it haha. true. perhaps a road trip coming up somewhere soon. after christmas maybe.
 
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