They know better!! Lol.
Been doing this my entire life, never called on by Karen’s. But in these current times, I wouldn’t be surprised. Most of my neighbors are cool and stop by to chat about cars life ect. I guess I’m lucky.
What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (39 Viewers)
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Been doing this my entire life, never called on by Karen’s. But in these current times, I wouldn’t be surprised. Most of my neighbors are cool and stop by to chat about cars life ect. I guess I’m lucky.
City drains do dump into the Oceans
Kanjinsoo. What was wrong with your engine? Are you rebuilding it or ls swapping?
The engine bay is clean. Looking at your photos brings back memory of me cutting those engine mounts
off in preparation for the ls engine. Good work man.
The engine bay is clean. Looking at your photos brings back memory of me cutting those engine mounts
off in preparation for the ls engine. Good work man.
I can’t believe it either. In my town we can’t even wash our cars in our driveway or hose off our homes.
Besides that, no neighbors complaining about what your doing.
Engine ran fine prior to removing. I pulled the engine and transmission in order to re build the tranny. Burnt up first gear!
As for the engine, I am cleaning her up and installing new gaskets and accessories(water pump, oil pan gasket, valve cover gasket, hoses, rear main seal ect. Thought it’d be a good time to re fresh the paint and make her pretty. 200k original miles on the drivetrain.
How big is the tire size? Looks perfect
Got a letter from the HOA with a warning about my Land Cruiser not having plates... People need to mind their own business unless they wanna help me work on it.
It's just your normal 2" - 2.5" lift and 35's. the springs were old Ironmans that I had laying around after upgrading to heavy Dobinsons on my rig. Thanks!
Turned over the engine on the engine stand and installed the oil pan after cleaning it up for the second time. So much easier with the engine out of the truck!!
I mean it's not really the weekend... But there was an A442F with transfer case and wiring harness for less than 200 bucks so I snapped it up so I have something to build to put behind the twin turbo 1FZ when the stock one eventually gives up. I'm not really sure why I brought the cruiser to pick it up, this would have been much easier to put in the back of my Tacoma. Also taking this big son of a bitch out of a Land cruiser without a jack is a feat I hope to never repeat.
Twin turbo....please do tell
Did the rear view mirror upgrade to replace my busted backup camera. Now i can see out the back and the front.
Just the plan in the works for this Land Cruiser, it was my daily for the longest time, then it became a reluctant tow pig, now it is settling into a life of being an impractical classic toy (I mean who buys a 24year old, at the time, SUV to daily drive anyway). My buddy and I run a small shop building and tuning mostly boosted Toyota trucks and decided this would be a fun shop project and a great excuse to give the 80 some love it has been needing anyway. I've got a spare 1FZ stacked in the basement of the shop, a spare trans now, a couple extra engine and transmission wiring harnesses, spare Haltech ECUs from previous projects, and a desperate need to replace my aged exhaust system.
It got a Haltech Elite 2000 to replace the busted ass 93-94 engine controls and eliminate all the need for fragile and expensive maintenance items like the nearly NLA NTK O2 sensors, VAFM, IAC (actually using this still but if it fails I'll put in a conventional rotary solenoid style one), distributor and single coil, resonant style knock sensors. Modernizing makes a huge difference in feel and efficiency for old rigs like this especially when you use the new ECU for trans control too and can now alter shift points and add features like manual mode (paddles). But all that prior work makes it super simple to add forced induction, it's already set up for it and tuning is what we do. So naturally we were looking at the old girl and thought, lets get some schedule bends and TIG up some manifolds for twins.
Plan right now is two PSR GT2871 .72AR Gen2 Ball bearing turbos because they offer housings with both the inlet and outlet as a v-band. Thankfully for packaging sake they come with internal wastegates since it will be hard enough to get the downpipes in place and out of the engine bay without looking like a mess. Have a fairly large water to air intercooler already from another project and a spare heat exchanger as well. It's nothing ground breaking for a 1FZ build really, just a few hundred extra ponies to the wheels and some fun spool noises. But really nothing extravagant unless the hood is open, still want it to appear as a stock looking 93 Land Cruiser outside.
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Replaced my driver side rear door lock actuator with a new aisin unit, cleaned and lubed the moving parts and installed a new vapor barrier with fresh butyl tape. Tested the lock before putting the door back together and it checked out so I put the door back together, closed it. Locked it and unlocked it and the door didn’t open… I forgot to hook up the arm and clip for the outside door handle. Son of a gun! Had to pull the whole door apart again, managed to razor blade the fresh butyl tape and avoided ripping the fresh vapor barrier. Got her all put back together and she works like a charm. Hopefully the passenger side goes smoother.
A few picts from a couple hours ago.
Beautiful pictures.
Onto the next project for the weekend (maybe the week?) fixing the rusted out inner rocker. If this goes well I'll start on the dented outer rocker on the other side..
Almost the weekend. New wheels and tires. These wheels have been sitting in boxes since black friday and it has been killing me. But the time finally arrived.
Method bead grip 702 17x8.5 4.75 back spacing
Method Center cap extensions CP-EXT107s (minor mod to clear the rear)
Spider trax 1.5in wheel spacers
Falken Wildpeak R/t01 35x12.5 r17
Apex RPV (delates 35s from 35 to 18 psi in 5 seconds)
Method bead grip 702 17x8.5 4.75 back spacing
Method Center cap extensions CP-EXT107s (minor mod to clear the rear)
Spider trax 1.5in wheel spacers
Falken Wildpeak R/t01 35x12.5 r17
Apex RPV (delates 35s from 35 to 18 psi in 5 seconds)
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