What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week? (73 Viewers)

[letterman52]

Got the 78’ back to the house. Just need to flip that bezel and drive it until the wheels fall off. I love cheap girls.

 

[peesalot]

Cleaned the windshield, added another 15w panel, thru a old blanket over the new seats ( sits outside, no top), need to swap out the trasharoo with a new one.

 

[Comet]

Rust mitigation.

 

[Orange76Cruiser]

Good video but why does politics have to get into car videos. Now where is safe anymore

I was 9 to 13 years old during Nixon’s Presidency, and the emphasis of tv to radio to print was completely different, but I can assure you that politics was all over the different media and it’s just the delivery method that has changed. The biggest difference is that tv coverage wasn’t the primary means that most people got detailed news, you read newspapers or magazines.

 

[John in Utah]

Installed a remote head unit into an ‘81.

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Which one is that? do you like it?

 

[Jdc1]

Which one is that? do you like it?

It’s a retro sound unit. Not my truck but it seems to be nice. I used the remote wiring harness and mounted the main part of the stereo in the glovebox.

 

[letterman52]

Old paint vs new paint. It’ll all buff out. Is what it is at this point. Started reassembly. Let the battle begin….

 

[steffan]

got a little time to line the front fenders

 

[LandCrusher'70]

Is this someone on here? This is great!!!! It really puts the cruisers life in perspective!

The cracked piston in this video looks like the same failure mine had…

 

[BearBio]

1. Re-installed driver seat with new bracket to increase clearance for the stock 17" steering wheel.
2. Buying tires for the OEM wheels I have!

 

[Michael B]

@BearBio are you familiar with “Waylon Wire” YouTube videos? He’s an older gentleman that plays with a lot of older vehicles/rat rods. The reason I ask is because he lives in the same town you do.

 

[BearBio]

I'll check it out!

 

[steffan]

the paint continues - i feel like i'm actually making progress for once.

 

[mogge]

GSager said:​

"I went with OME springs and Bilstein shocks, and I got about 2.5" out of it overall..."
Congrats for the OME + Stein combo! May I ask which model of Bilstein shocks did you opt for, mate?
Happy cruising in your beautiful skyblue 40!

Hey there, just got my CCOT HFS suspension, its Thursday evening, I am looking at the instructions, and looking at the parts I have 8 "thick" side bushings and 14 "thinner" side bushings. In the pictures and instructions, they all appear to have the same collar thickness. They say nothing about that. Where do they go and do you really have 2 extra thin wall bushings left?

 

[4Cruisers]

Bastardized my '76 FJ40 some more by, at least temporarily, swapping out my FJ60 coil/igniter with a Tercel coil/igniter. I had to fabricate a temporary jumper - the connector at the coil/igniter and the connector at the FJ60 distributor are the same gender. I'll correct that by replacing the coil/igniter lead with a new lead of the correct length (longer than the Tercel lead), using some new shielded cable I bought off eBay and a new connector I got from @ToyotaMatt. It fired right up and runs great.

BTW, the '76 now sports two Tercel parts - a power steering pump and the coil/igniter.

 

[letterman52]

More reassembly. Tomorrow might be a pause and clean the shop day. Stuff everywhere.

 

[Trigger6]

Hey there, just got my CCOT HFS suspension, its Thursday evening, I am looking at the instructions, and looking at the parts I have 8 "thick" side bushings and 14 "thinner" side bushings. In the pictures and instructions, they all appear to have the same collar thickness. They say nothing about that. Where do they go and do you really have 2 extra thin wall bushings left?

Edited: I just looked at mine and you should have 24 total bushings (each spring/shackle requires 6 bushings). The 8 wider bushings connect the springs to the shackles. The thin bushings connect the shackles to the hangers and the springs to the pins

Also, not sure how much lift you are adding or what size tires you are planning to run, but you will likely need to add castor shims to the front axle to prevent the dreaded “death wobble”.

I went with the 2 1/2” ccot shackles which gave me about 3 1/2” overall lift and I believe I ended up needing 6deg shims on the front to get my castor to +4deg and eliminate the wobble.

There is apparently a sweet spot for castor…. Too little and it wobbles, too much and it becomes hard to steer and is hard on the steering components.

 

[letterman52]

Completed covering one long jump seat with Coral colored seating from Cruiser Corps. Also added a new front bumper and some OEM fog lights I’ve hoarded for over a decade.

 

[Advrider639]

After years of window shopping, I finally bought a 4plus for my truck. Installing now. Be back later with finished photos.

Hands down the nicest piece of metal I’ve ever worked with!

 

[4Cruisers]

Bastardized my '76 FJ40 some more by, at least temporarily, swapping out my FJ60 coil/igniter with a Tercel coil/igniter. I had to fabricate a temporary jumper - the connector at the coil/igniter and the connector at the FJ60 distributor are the same gender. I'll correct that by replacing the coil/igniter lead with a new lead of the correct length (longer than the Tercel lead), using some new shielded cable I bought off eBay and a new connector I got from @ToyotaMatt. It fired right up and runs great.

BTW, the '76 now sports two Tercel parts - a power steering pump and the coil/igniter.

Started the permanent coil/igniter lead for the new OEM igniter I found on eBay. It should be here early next week. Now that I know it will work well with the FJ60 distributor, the new igniter will be installed in my '71 FJ40 build. Next I'll fabricate a permanent lead for the used igniter that will stay in the '76.