These are the types of problems landcruisers have sometimes.
Dirt intrusion/ corrosion problems.
Clean it and carry on type problems.
What did you do to your pig today? (1 Viewer)
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Dirt intrusion/ corrosion problems.
Clean it and carry on type problems.
Tightened the three fan belts and got rid of the squeal at high rpm’s. Also finally got the electric fan for the vintage air working again. Wiring/electrical issues are a pain in the butt. Finally gave up and wired directly to the coil which is ignition on power to the relay so now works as intended.
I have been stripping down my parts truck. Today I got out my Ingersoll Rand Needle Descaler, and went to work on the frame. If you've never used one, they do a great job of stripping every lose and flakey bit of crud off of any piece of iron or steel. It gets the rust off and the paint off and stripps anything down to bare metal, while at the same time making a rough and porous surface for paint to stick to. Really an amazing tool, but brutal to run it for any extended period of time. If there's a section that's compromised by rust, the scaler will obliterate the rust and blow the hole out so you know right where the edges of the good steel are. It must be experienced. Anyway, I stripped a bunch of frame with mine today, kept the old air compressor running all afternoon to keep up.
I've got a rust free body comung, to put on this frame,so there's that.
I've got a rust free body comung, to put on this frame,so there's that.
PabloCruise
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You should be able to find switched power at the fuse block, eh? Heater fuse...
PabloCruise
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What happened to the rest of the body?!?
I bet your arms get tired after a day of that...
There was too much rust.
I took the number plates, and cut the body off of the frame with a Sawzall. It's still got the roof, because I'm a redneck and I could use the dry storage. There was not much of the body worth saving. It came from the coast and had salty sand everywhere.
At least 20 years ago, someone bondoed and fiberglassed the big holes, which just kept rusting beneath the paint. The scaler peeled back all of that and revealed a body which isn't worth saving. I began taking loads to scrap last week after stripping out the doors of all their parts.
The body is going to scrap and that's where it belongs. Soon, I'm going to retrieve this body from the hills. Make 3 into 2....
The body I found is about as low rust as you're going to find in the wild these days...
Say what you want about our laws, if you want your pig to last a long time, it's the place to be!
Took the hood off, put the head on. Hooked up most everything else and started it. Still a few bugs to iron out, gotta adjust the float level, but I got it up to temp so I can retorque and re-adjust some.
tucker74
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That head is a heavy bastard to get in there all lined up 
Nope, 1/2" pipe. just like the head. makes it very convenient.
Pig runs great. Today I picked up my buddy who owns this XJ, and we went and diagnosed his fuel pump. I overhauled it on my tailgate, put it back in and Bob's your uncle. While we were there (at his friends place) the owner of the shop shows up driving an antique Citroen.
He promptly leaves, we've interrupted coffee... Anywho, I tore down the pump, shook out all of the metal shavings, put it back together and now it works.
All using the tools which I keep in the Landcruiser anyway.
Toyota: legendary reliability.
Jaguar: Not so much.
He promptly leaves, we've interrupted coffee... Anywho, I tore down the pump, shook out all of the metal shavings, put it back together and now it works.
All using the tools which I keep in the Landcruiser anyway.
Toyota: legendary reliability.
Jaguar: Not so much.
Yeah sure, in theory it will be, however there's a reason that the British drink warm beer, Lucas makes their refrigerators...
Drove my 1969 into the desert and Joshua Tree forest. 94+ degrees made me take it home to the garage to find some more holes/openings in the firewall letting HOT air in from the engine bay. Found three more that took a bolt each plus 2 small holes that took small rubber plugs. Then replaced the very worn out grommet surrounding the hood release cable. Then got really crazy and washed the pig and even cleaned out some/most of the dust on the inside plus cleaned windows inside and out.
PabloCruise
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Metal shavings in the fuel pump? What's up with that?
PabloCruise
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Lucas = Prince of Darkness...
Some brilliant mechanic back flushed the fuel filter with his air compressor.
I'm assuming it moved the turd from the filter into the pump, which previously was brand new.
A wise man once told me "there's things in life that simply cannot be known, and smart people get good at identifying those things and they don't waste a lot of time trying to know, that which cannot be known."
I don't know, but now it runs, and if it fails again, (it will) he's got my phone number...
