What did you do with your 60 this weekend? (23 Viewers)

[cps432]

Looks great!

Definitely have the O2 bung welded in before you mount the header so you can get in as close to 12 o'clock as possible.

Wouldn't hurt to put a straight edge over those header flanges, either, to check for flatness and perhaps clean up the inside welds a bit.

Also, I see on the cylinder head there's some high-temp permatex. That stuff really doesn't work there.

Much Better is this stuff, on both sides of gasket and on metal mounting surfaces. Cures rock hard. Local Cruiser Gurus use it all the time when installing headers on 2F.

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Yeah I learned that the hard way. I had several exhaust leaks and vacuum leaks from the manifold nightmare. I’ve got a remflex gasket to install this time. I may install it dry as prescribed. As I understand it, it uses a lower torque value and expands to fill any discrepancies. I certainly will be checking for flatness. It looks like the manufacturer simply took a flap wheel to the welds.

 

[Spike Strip]

Ok, yes, with Remflex install dry. Remflex Temp rating is way higher than any sealant.

The K&W goop is for standard gaskets.

Keep the updates coming!

 

[cps432]

Ok, yes, with Remflex install dry. Remflex Temp rating is way higher than any sealant.

The K&W goop is for standard gaskets.

Keep the updates coming!

Working on updating my build thread now so I can’t quit hogging the weekend pages...

 

[Skellibert]

Went "accidentally" off-road.
No, I didn't miss a corner or anything like that.
My wife, and my two boys went to find a place for a short hike, I searched on a bushwalking app, found a likely prospect, and put the position into Goolgemaps.
My wife wanted to take our little station wagon, but I said, "no, there are some dirt roads by the look of it", and she doesn't like to take the Skoda on dirt roads if we can help it, just to keep it a bit nice.
So we took the Cruiser.
The track was definitely more than you should take a nice-ish car, so we were glad to take the cruiser, but I didn't even lock the hubs in at first. A couple of steepish but good track sections, so I found a spot, stopped, and locked the hubs in, but left it in 2WD.
Eventually I put it into 4x4, but only for control, not because we needed to.
Then we came across a fallen tree over the track, but there was break around it, which we followed. 4x4 required for that, but only just, not difficult.
We have had a fair bit of rain here lately, so the tracks further on were "gullied out" you know, a wash gully down the middle.
It looked terrible, but of course, we put a wheel either side and it was like smooth track.
Anyway - nothing incredibly challenging, but unexpected.
We thought it was going to be at worst good dirt track suitable for any car, so it was a really nice surprise for me to get in a little 4x4ing.
The Cruiser was, of course, absolutely above it all, as expected.

The walk was really nice too - a couple of kms of nice bush with some waterfalls along the way.
The track out was good track - they wouldn't let me go back out the way we came in - the wife and boys that is....!

 

[Samppahj]

How'd you yellow zinc those metal parts? Did you manage to take them off the plastic assembly, or did you just dip everything? I need to refurbish mine and I'd like to follow your process.

Dip everything. I grinded the earth lead off the metal parts and used M2 screws to fit it back. They used these holes along with the cable holes to hang the parts ind the process and got the electricity to all the metal parts. Zinc process does no harm to plastic parts.

 

[Samppahj]

I did these tailgate locks also a year ago. The plastic parts look like new after zinc coating.

 

[BHillteq]

Took some southern California friends wheelin' out here in Utah!

 

[MoaByte]

Took some southern California friends wheelin' out here in Utah!

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Been seeing a few 80's around lately too.

 

[RodrigzCrzr]

Took some southern California friends wheelin' out here in Utah!

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Thanks for showing us around!
That was relaxing with some great views.

 

[MoaByte]

Thanks for showing us around!
That was relaxing with some great views.

A good guide is a great guide! Hope you didn't forget to tip him.. over.

 

[Godwin]

Replaced the fuel pump. A week or two ago began experiencing a stalling problem just off idle with a load on the 2F, such as having a front tire turned against a curb. I installed the pump about 14 years ago and it has about 250k miles on it so it was time.

 

[NLXTACY]

Customer has his HJ61 here. Main key was lost in the mail. Luckily he had one spare left. I finally got it and went out and got three spares made. Had some red anodized disks that I engraved the TEQ logo onto really quick and now he’s got three good keychained keys. I wish I had some OE Toyota key blanks to work with but didn’t have time.

This truck just drips cool!

 

[JayDoc]

@JayDoc How is the sound deadening? Big improvement? I am looking at doing similar in my 60, would you recommend?

Tidying up the carpet install today and I can say that the 60 is noticeably quieter.
Is it the sound deadener or the carpet carrying the heavier load? Who knows but I'm pleased with it for the $60 I spent on the deadener.

Also touched up the emblem. It had gotten fairly faded over the last 40 years.

 

[cps432]

Customer has his HJ61 here. Main key was lost in the mail. Luckily he had one spare left. I finally got it and went out and got three spares made. Had some red anodized disks that I engraved the TEQ logo onto really quick and now he’s got three good keychained keys. I wish I had some OE Toyota key blanks to work with but didn’t have time.

This truck just drips cool!

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Toyotamatt has a giant bag full of them! If you can get the code off the ignition cylinder, I believe he can program his key machine to cut a replacement without having the original key.

 

[TRAIL TAILOR]

Got the body set on the Owl Van Engineering 60.

Now onto the custom armor and electrical in a couple weeks.

 

[BHillteq]

Thanks for showing us around!
That was relaxing with some great views.

Anytime man! Glad no one was killed in the 70 Series.

 

[bxadook]

ARB twin compressor! First foray into wiring and learned a lot. Will be putting in an auxiliary battery with likely a Blue Sea fuse box merged with either a BCDC battery charger or Blue Sea charging relay. Will need a coolant overflow relocating battery tray soon, and moving the compressor battery wiring to it.

 

[Godwin]

Broken front leaf on an OME heavy suspension. @cruiserinsanity has been driving the 60 and he noticed the broken spring. These front springs have >250k miles on them, were first installed on my '86 FJ60 and used hard during that time. We swapped them over to the '85 FJ60 maybe a year ago. Nothing more than spring fatigue after a lot of miles. New springs now on order.

 

[NLXTACY]

Ok time for a palette cleanser…

Figured it was a perfect time to bleed the brakes and clutch master on my 60 (but this works for any LC). One of the things I constantly see people do is either:
* watch carefully the brake fluid level and top up as needed over and over and over again or
* they bleed the brakes and suck in air because they didn’t refill the reservoir(s) in time

You remember as a kid when you would take a glass you were washing in a sink full of water and fill the glass with water and hold it upside down in the water? Then you’d slowly start lifting the glass (full of water but upside down) up out of the water juuuust to the edge of the glass. Then you’d sit and admire that the water doesn’t stream out of the glass but it’s above the water line. Remember that?

Well this is simply because the atmospheric pressure is equal in the cup as it is in the air around you. Gravity wants the water to fall but it needs a pressure differential to happen, aka bubbles.

Well that’s what you do with the bottles of brake fluid when bleeding your brakes (or clutch master). Just dump the bottle over the open reservoir. It’ll pour out until there is a liquid seal around the mouth of the bottle. But in order to get the brake fluid to drain you need to make sure there is a pressure differential so that’s why there is a small wire to crack open enough air to have the reservoir air pressure the same as the pressure in your garage.

Now bleed as necessary and all you need to make sure is you don’t pull all of the brake fluid thru

 

[4Cruisers]

You remember as a kid when you would take a glass you were washing in a sink full of water and fill the glass with water and hold it upside down in the water? Then you’d slowly start lifting the glass (full of water but upside down) up out of the water juuuust to the edge of the glass. Then you’d sit and admire that the water doesn’t stream out of the glass but it’s above the water line. Remember that?

I don't think I ever did that, but I do remember pouring out the small vial of mercury onto the lab benchtop in the elementary school science room and herding all the little droplets into one big puddle with the blade of a knife. Nowadays you can't even buy a simple mercury thermometer.