Added bonus it comes in Land Cruiser gray for those of us with the right color interior LOL!12”x12” universal steel access door. You can buy them at any hardware store like Home Depot or an electrical or plumbing supply store. I bought mine from a plumbing supply store in chandler for 14.99. I am sure there are other ones to choose from. I needed it for a household projects but did not use it. Had it sitting on the tailgate when the idea came to me. I might glue the carpet from the hole I cut out to the front to make it a little more of a secret hiding spot. It was a 15 minute job with a jig saw just don’t cut the control rod that connects to the tail gate latch. Cheap and easy my kind of mod
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IT'S ALIVE!
Tow my FJ45 back to the valley a few weeks ago. Last time it was registered was over fourteen years ago. Not sure it been started since then. Figure when we're gone would keep it in the garage. Having it running would be a big plus as it not as easy as it use to be pushing it around by hand. I enjoy all thread on how to bring their F/2F back after sitting a long time. OF course I didn't follow any of the recommendations. Charged up a battery that been sitting on the garage floor (on a piece of wood) for years, dated 05/2011. I pulled from my mom's Highlander when it went dead. Being just over two years at the time I used a much older battery as a trade in and hold it to cool country. Took a few days playing around to get it running but it's alive.
Here is what the old fuel filter looked like.
As I remember I have crap in the tank that would plug up the pick up tube and starve the engine. Got good at pulling the hose off the filter and using air to clear the inlet. I did dump the gas before I parked it. Couldn't get gas to the filter and ended up clearing the pick up tube with a old school hanger. Had a coating of what looked like tar. Stuff that blew out of the line was gritty like sand and certainly not rust color.
Just have to love how simple these are. What was in the original tool kit would have been enough to make the repairs include the twelve volt trouble for the electric issue it had. No 600 page manual required in fact no manual needed at all.
Tow my FJ45 back to the valley a few weeks ago. Last time it was registered was over fourteen years ago. Not sure it been started since then. Figure when we're gone would keep it in the garage. Having it running would be a big plus as it not as easy as it use to be pushing it around by hand. I enjoy all thread on how to bring their F/2F back after sitting a long time. OF course I didn't follow any of the recommendations. Charged up a battery that been sitting on the garage floor (on a piece of wood) for years, dated 05/2011. I pulled from my mom's Highlander when it went dead. Being just over two years at the time I used a much older battery as a trade in and hold it to cool country. Took a few days playing around to get it running but it's alive.
Here is what the old fuel filter looked like.
As I remember I have crap in the tank that would plug up the pick up tube and starve the engine. Got good at pulling the hose off the filter and using air to clear the inlet. I did dump the gas before I parked it. Couldn't get gas to the filter and ended up clearing the pick up tube with a old school hanger. Had a coating of what looked like tar. Stuff that blew out of the line was gritty like sand and certainly not rust color.
Just have to love how simple these are. What was in the original tool kit would have been enough to make the repairs include the twelve volt trouble for the electric issue it had. No 600 page manual required in fact no manual needed at all.
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@Zor, Nice score. That will make for a good setup on an 80. Don't overlook using a roller fairlead option for the synthetic rope. It's arguably easier on the line. Make sure it has new rollers or deburr if it's used and had seen steel cable pulled through it. If you go with a hawse find one with an appropriate radius edge.
I got my front seats reupholstered. At first I wanted to just have the bottom of my driver seat done but at $200 to get the whole seat I took a chance with it. I like the work, it's vinyl but feels pretty good. Some of you seen it at the meeting yesterday and asked for the contact info. They quoted me 750 if I wanted to get front and rears done.
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Ooops, doing this through my cell phone
Didn't do anything to the vehicles per say but I did pick this up this morning. Will go through it and make sure it's in good working order.
I spent my morning going through the same winch. I've got two blown brush terminals on mine. If you get into motor problems Warn doesn't have any motor parts for that motor, only replacement motors $$$. Jack at Winch Service Parts in Redding has been a bunch of help and is on the hunt for the rebuild parts I need. Hopefully I can rebuild it instead of replacing. That'll leave more money for a synthetc rope and hawse. WARN Winch Repair Parts, parts for WARN winches: WinchServiceParts.com
The armature is fine (I think), I just need to find the brushes. It just seems no one carries them. In my snooping I did find that Bosch made the motor, so I at least have a manufacturer to go on. I just wish that Warn was more supportive with parts.
And like I said, if you get into motor problems just holler. I can hopefully save you a bunch of time on research since I've already made a bunch of calls and gone down the M12 google rabbit hole.
And like I said, if you get into motor problems just holler. I can hopefully save you a bunch of time on research since I've already made a bunch of calls and gone down the M12 google rabbit hole.
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Removed my 8 yr old pioneer single din deck and the Kenwood ham radio that were mounted over-under in the dash with something newer. Moved the Sirius and the Ham antennas to new and preferrable spots with the Ham radio relocating to the backside of my center console. Couldn't find a suitable spot for the rear backup camera that the spare tire didn't block much of the screen so it wasnt worth installing to me. Will have to stick to turning around in my seat, its worked well so far lol.
The ham antenna gets moved from the front bumper to the top of the hood via a Gamaviti mount Saddletramp turned me onto. The extra few feet of height will give me better range. Then I spent a couple hours in the driveway learning all the ins and outs of the new Pioneer AVH600EX on Saturday.
The ham antenna gets moved from the front bumper to the top of the hood via a Gamaviti mount Saddletramp turned me onto. The extra few feet of height will give me better range. Then I spent a couple hours in the driveway learning all the ins and outs of the new Pioneer AVH600EX on Saturday.
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Drove up to Expo with @Fishbone60 and camped below Munds park. Ran in to lots of friends and acquaintances through the years.
The show was very big, not necessarily in a good way. Weather was perfect, booths had lots of interesting items but nothing drove me to part with any funds.
@LandCruiserPhil was manning the Maltec booth, showing off the very cool rigs. The setup was amazing, so nice to be able to take a trip with that level of accommodation. Looking forward to hearing more about these rigs when Phil returns from his walkabout with Maltec.
The show was very big, not necessarily in a good way. Weather was perfect, booths had lots of interesting items but nothing drove me to part with any funds.
@LandCruiserPhil was manning the Maltec booth, showing off the very cool rigs. The setup was amazing, so nice to be able to take a trip with that level of accommodation. Looking forward to hearing more about these rigs when Phil returns from his walkabout with Maltec.
Long views, Great Basin - remote - accessed by 80 series.
Last Friday, loaded two kayaks on the roof and archery gear in the back. My buddy Mike (needs to get his V8 FJ55 back on the road) and I headed from Tucson up to Prescott for the Arizona 3D Archery Championship Series finale, the Mile High Classic. I was hearing some grinding on the downhills--kinda like your brake pads are gone, but I knew mine only had 9000 miles. Backing out of Filibertos in the morning sounded REALLY bad so we parked the truck, jacked it up, and pulled the front DS wheel. I had thrown the top caliper retaining bolt. The caliper was hanging/pivoting by the lower bolt--driving forward, the wheel well would roll the caliper forward onto the rotor, but rolling backward, the caliper would catch/cam slightly back into the wheel and score it.
We proceeded direct to Lowes and found a replacement bolt--was 1/4 inch too long but with a couple extra washers it went in fine.
I needed that new ratchet and sockets anyway....
We proceeded direct to Lowes and found a replacement bolt--was 1/4 inch too long but with a couple extra washers it went in fine.
I needed that new ratchet and sockets anyway....
I painted 1 of my 2 new BudBuilt sliders tonight. Bud told me he’d been using hammered finish rust oleum paint lately so I gave that a shot. It’s got a texture to it which he said is much easier to touch up when it gets scratched. The “black” is more of a dark gray which I’m adjusting too but I thinks it’s looking good. Getting dark now I’ll have to see in the morning how I did. Before/after picture below.
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So diving further into it it looks like the motor lead isolation block is missing.I am assuming the previous owner tried to take off the cable and the stud spun causing the separation from the winding and damaging the isolation block. Then just tightened the stud all the way down. Spoke with a motor shop today. Going to install new isolation washers and re solder the stud to the winding. I have already rang out the winding's and they show to be in good condition.