Standby: I finally decided to get a professional Landcruiser mechanic to pick my FJ up and give it a good once over to get everything in good shape. I will be posting the results once done.
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It’s been a while since I had a chance to post. I just started a new job and before I knew it, a couple of months past by.
I got my truck back and hopefully all should be good here on out. Big thanks to Steve Cooper over at
Northwest Design and Fab who did a great job checking everything out and getting things straight. He even did pickup and drop off.
Upgrades/Fixes performed:
1. Replace leaky rubber fuel lines with hard lines and braided end hoses. I noticed a nice performance increase with the larger fuel lines.
2. Replaced leaking power steering pump with a new unit.
3. Had leaking steering unit rebuilt with new seals.
4. Replaced u-bolts that which too long and had damaged threads
5. Replaced front wheel lug bolts which were too short for disk brake setup.
6. Added 5 deg camber shims to correct alignment
7. Replaced brake master cylinder and booster with later model unit which works better with disk brakes. Original unit was for drum brakes and would not release the brakes fully causing them to drag.
8. Replace horns which had burned out after going off all night due to a sticky steering wheel horn button. My neighbors must have loved when that happened right outside their bedroom window.
9. Removed and reinstalled oil pan with the correct Toyota sealant. TC used what looked like bathroom caulking which leaked.
10. Cut off sway bar brackets from rear axel.
11. Most important, I now have some piece of mind that there should be no more major problems over the horizon.
