What did you do on your 70 series today? (35 Viewers)

[robmobile73]

Picking my son up from school today had a terrible intermittant rattling coming from under the hood at idle. After pickup went to the parts store to add some oil(weeping into intake). Dipstick was low put in 3 quarts but no change in sound. I was fearing a loose/stretched rod bolts.....Dropped the oil pan and all was tight and well and no damage found. Bolted all that back together and refilled with new oil. Noise gone. I"m guessing it was lifter noise due to low oil/old oil.???Not sure.

Upon reassembly I forgot to reconnect the turbo oil drainline to the pan and lost a gallon of oil onto the driveway in less than 2 min.....Cleanup and refill...I'm guessing I have way too much oil flowing to the turbo and need to install a restrictor(which hopefully would cut down on the turbo eating oil). Probably going to braze a fitting shut and then drill through with a 1/16 bit to cut down on oil flow.

 

[TonyP]

Upon reassembly I forgot to reconnect the turbo oil drainline to the pan and lost a gallon of oil onto the driveway in less than 2 min.....Cleanup and refill...

Been there. In my much younger years I forgot to replace the oil drain bolt. Six quarts of Mobil1 on the garage floor. The clean-up and 30 minute walk to Autozone to buy more oil was an excellent life lesson.

 

[svsisu]

Indeed! Thank you. I'd also like to r/r the other rubber stuff back there... having a hard time finding the part numbers for the below. Any help on those #'s?

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Part numbers that worked for my troopy are here, seems pretty interchangeable but could check model fitment through megazip.

What did you do on your 70 series today?

First sunny day after a couple of weeks full of rain. And got the Cruiser ready to roll. Time to take it for a trip. Timber framed house ~40m NE of Cologne.

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[RHINO]

Haha beat me to it svsisu, I was going to link your recent rear door work.

 

[robmobile73]

Been there. In my much younger years I forgot to replace the oil drain bolt. Six quarts of Mobil1 on the garage floor. The clean-up and 30 minute walk to Autozone to buy more oil was an excellent life lesson.

I was amazed by how much oil it pumped out so fast. No wonder it's weeping out around the turbo bearing with that much pressure/flow.

 

[jblueridge]

Damnable chinese alternator is weeping oil.
It's not leaking at the vacuum pump or at the oil lines though.
Probably a faulty seal inside it.

When the rebuilt original alternator gets back to me I will reinstall it.

 

[Guyute]

Part numbers that worked for my troopy are here, seems pretty interchangeable but could check model fitment through megazip.

What did you do on your 70 series today?

First sunny day after a couple of weeks full of rain. And got the Cruiser ready to roll. Time to take it for a trip. Timber framed house ~40m NE of Cologne.

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Awesome. Thank you! Waiting for PartsSouq to confirm parts availability now. Missing those round door plugs on the backdoors too. Looks like you have the upper one. Hope I can find something local to fill that void in my life.

 

[Gun Runner 5]

A LOT of the labor that was involved in the 2 year rebuild of my truck was directed towards “de-Proffitt-izing“ the electrical system. The one part of the system that seemed to work on an adequate level was the rear lighting. Over the last few months (and a number of blown fuses) it appears we were overly optimistic as to the quality of the rear wiring. Instead of attempting to troubleshoot the wiring it was decided to just replace everything associated with the rear lighting.

 

[Bogan]

Some film photos from the past few months. Some cruisers. And a 70 series...

 

[robmobile73]

Remade my turbo oil supply today: Proper 1/8"bsp to NPT fitting instead of 1/8" NPT with teflon tape force thread into block. Brass fitting brazed shut with 1/16" hole drilled through to restrict oil/pressure/flow to prevent it from blowing out/around/by the turbo bearing.

Removed the the 2.25 flex pipe experimental turbo-intake pipe that was leaking oil everywhere. Put a piece of 2" iron pipe I had in the pipe bender and now have a nice non-leaking free flowing intake plumbing. Aluminum would have been nicer, but I didn't have it on hand.................I'm still impressed by how well/how good driveability is with the 3B with 20lb of boost on tap.

 

[robmobile73]

Remade my turbo oil supply today: Proper 1/8"bsp to NPT fitting instead of 1/8" NPT with teflon tape force thread into block. Brass fitting brazed shut with 1/16" hole drilled through to restrict oil/pressure/flow to prevent it from blowing out/around/by the turbo bearing.

Removed the the 2.25 flex pipe experimental turbo-intake pipe that was leaking oil everywhere. Put a piece of 2" iron pipe I had in the pipe bender and now have a nice non-leaking free flowing intake plumbing. Aluminum would have been nicer, but I didn't have it on hand.................I'm still impressed by how well/how good driveability is with the 3B with 20lb of boost on tap.

Going to smooth wall iron pipe vs the flex pipe I picked up 2psi on boost, now 22psi at full load.

 

[renago]

Small trip on the Alps

 

[Gun Runner 5]

Had five 70 Series at our little get-together today.

 

[ASO544]

Had five 70 Series at our little get-together today. View attachment 2937783

Man…I really like that white Troopy on the right.

 

[Gun Runner 5]

Man…I really like that white Troopy on the right.

@bulletsmith …. His Troopy.
There was also a BJ73 present that unfortunately didn’t make the early photo.
(Edit: Here is all six of the 70 Series )

 

[Gun Runner 5]

I am confident that this is the largest number of 70 Series (and Land Cruisers in general) to ever grace the parking lot of the Smok’n Pig.

 

[jblueridge]

Removed shiny alternator "new" from China. Re-installed grubby but USA-rebuilt original alt.

 

[Guyute]

Finished up the window box Sunday. Thought carpeting would suck... wasn't too bad. Ran 12V from the LHS house battery to a fuse box behind the paper towels. Running my water pump, ciggy socket, USBx2, interior light inside the box and a few strips of LEDs on the gull wing. Retractable water hose, paper towels, RAM mount so I can move the navigation iPad back there for music and such, and a molle panel. Plan on getting some recovery gear from the drawers moved in there, handwashing stuff and/or I dunno. Also added that Blue Ridge pouch above my flip-up table. Love BRO stuff. Camp drunk supplies housed there now for easy access. Shot glasses, knife, bottle opener and such. Cheers!

 

[Billyfj7312ht]

Windows tinted. Scoop and rear factory turbo sticker installed yesterday

 

[Loober]

Finished up the window box Sunday. Thought carpeting would suck... wasn't too bad. Ran 12V from the LHS house battery to a fuse box behind the paper towels. Running my water pump, ciggy socket, USBx2, interior light inside the box and a few strips of LEDs on the gull wing. Retractable water hose, paper towels, RAM mount so I can move the navigation iPad back there for music and such, and a molle panel. Plan on getting some recovery gear from the drawers moved in there, handwashing stuff and/or I dunno. Also added that Blue Ridge pouch above my flip-up table. Love BRO stuff. Camp drunk supplies housed there now for easy access. Shot glasses, knife, bottle opener and such. Cheers!

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Where did you source the side gull wings with the storage?