Met up with a neighbor who has finally gotten his BJ73 to his home here. 93' model from Spain with the infamous VM diesel. It is such a nice truck. Previous owner had the interior completely redone before leaving Europe. It has the full dash guages with Tach etc. With 60K KM less than mine it feels so much tighter in the driveline and shifting. Rust free and white paint still shining. The VM engine has more turbo lag than my 3B with TD04 turbo. It has the same or slightly more power on top without concern for spiking EGT's.(totally stock fuel settings). Owner is considering conducting a swap because he's heard so much bad news about the VM engine. I hope he will choose to run it till it dies because it is running fine. He turned me on to the "Kentucky Adventure Trail". This could be a trip at some point in the future.
What did you do on your 70 series today? (37 Viewers)
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Drove it back from Sedona, three fuel stops, averaged about 17 mpg round trip. Ended up doing close to 2000 miles total, there and back plus driving around to sites.
Saw this 80 parked near me at the Zen trail near St. George.
Not sure why this app shows my average speed as 53 mph, I was doing about 68-72 mph most of the time, at least when the wind and hills would let me. 17 hours is too long to be sitting in that seat...
Saw this 80 parked near me at the Zen trail near St. George.
Not sure why this app shows my average speed as 53 mph, I was doing about 68-72 mph most of the time, at least when the wind and hills would let me. 17 hours is too long to be sitting in that seat...
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Completed the rear wheel wells today. The rest of the undercoat came off in 30min with anglegrinder brush.
3 layers of Brantho Corux applied over the last days (great stuff, but unavailable in US). Will post a pic later..
Blew up the 3B and called it a day.
FJBen
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RIP. That sounds like s***.
jblueridge
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Sorry.
I saw you driving up 89A through Oak Creek Canyon! About 6 AM Saturday. Black BJ73. I turned around to chase but you were gone. Like two ships in the night. Cheers.
One day I'll drive that to my folks' house from ABQ.
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Built another FRP rack for a customer.
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The product line has expanded to include recovery points for other versions of the 70 Series bumpers and having an ARB bumper is no longer required.
Been fairly busy on my BJ70. I replaced the stock 29" tires with 31x10.5 Yokohoma's, installed OME medium lift, new clutch, recored radiator, new water pump/hoses, tie/relay rods, removed the pin stripe (which oddly seem common on Canadian BJ70s, not sure if it was a dealer thing). Before and after:
Nice.
Regarding tires and OME kit, I did the same. (And most of the other stuff, too).
Is yours actually level? Mine leans to the left (like apparently many trucks do with OME fitted)
I don't have OME, but my truck leans to the right and its bothering me ha!
Love seeing my work in print. Ad shot for Baja Designs... Let's get more 70's in American print mags and maybe Toyota will be pressured into bringing them in (ain't holding my breath)... haha
My front is fairly level, but the rear passenger (right) is a bit higher. I haven't gotten too many kms on it yet so I am hoping it will settle.
Exact same with mine. I put about 2500km on it since the OME install, but it is not significantly settling..
I had Tough Dog on the FJ73 that I got from trail tailor and OME on my current HZJ77.
I liked the Tough Dog more than the OME. OME does have kind of a lean to it in the beginning but it does settle down over time.
Didn't have this issue with Tough Dog kit.
I liked the Tough Dog more than the OME. OME does have kind of a lean to it in the beginning but it does settle down over time.
Didn't have this issue with Tough Dog kit.
Mwb compared to Lwb will automatically contribute to that lean feeling , put a OME or whatever on a BJ70 and there is no lean and also the feeling that there is no suspension at all for the first 10k miles unless you load it with 500 # in the back.
