What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week?

[steffan]

On the road again, moving it back to the desert…. Again: the ‘72 has seen this section of I40 4x times now… hopefully, 2022 will be the year it does it under its own power

 

[Green Bean]

Installed mounting brackets for hand engine crank. (Waiting for delivery of Old Equipment Yellow paint to paint crank to match jack rods mounted on opposite fender well)

 

[tls3601]

Installed Ram stuff necessary to mount a new 64 iPad mini. Used an existing factory hole on dash. Mounted just above GMRS radio

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Wise use of space, liking this! Anyway to do similar mount with 67 Designs instead of RAM mounts?

 

[tls3601]

Slid nose first into a bar ditch in a snow storm tonight @about 40 mph, being a dumb ass and driving in 2wd while the roads were slicker than a five gallon bucket of warm Vaseline. Pretty steep shoulder, I went from trying to keep it between the lines to trying to keep it shiny side up all within about 2 seconds. Stopped about 6 inches from hitting a split rail fence. Had to steer it into the ditch rather than out of it, if not I may have dumped it on its side.

Locked the hubs, hit 4lo, pounded the skinny pedal and managed to get it back on the road.

Drove home and parked it.

Glad to hear this didn’t end in tragedy Ryan. Merry Christmas!

 

[JMZ400]

This week I did nothing but drive her. But Today Santa came and left me a few goodies. I'll stash them with all the other new parts I can't seem to find time to put on

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

Glad to hear this didn’t end in tragedy Ryan. Merry Christmas!

Thank you, Merry Christmas to y'all as well!

 

[Dagha Boy]

Merry Christmas and a happy 2022 to all.

 

[LandCrusher'70]

Nothing but a post Christmas drive.

 

[EWheeler]

Installed some black friday deals on the ‘69. Still have a bunch of goodies to install but got sidetracked by my neighbor.

Sorry for sideways photos. Apparently iphone and this website hate each other.

 

[firefighterjed]

Santa brought me a cityracer floor mat so today I spent several hours removing the seats and cleaning stuff so I could install it.

I’m reasonably happy with the results. It’s a beautiful reproduction. I do hope that as it relaxes into place it reaches closer to the edges of its space. I don’t love the 1” gap. It was even more pronounced until I cut in the cowl vent tubes. I may also notch for the rear heater hoses. It does fit beautifully over the transmission hump and the shifter hole templates were dead on.

 

[tlaporte]

Affixed my Mr. Landcruiser Hi-Lift Jack Mount and mounted my jack.

 

[tuckero23]

Cleaning parts and power washing while wait for engine bearings to show up.

 

[JohnnyFish]

Ever wonder what 40 front drum brakes look like when not used for 30 years?

 

[Ackcruisers]

With break in the weather, I test drove my H42 transmission and transfer case upgrade. What a civilized driving experience compared to my J30. Next up, wrestling my transmission hump cover into truck. Note, spinning front drive shaft in 2 WD. This is caused by drivers side locking hub not staying in “free” position. It moves by itself to lock position.

 

[1911]

It moves by itself to lock position.

Years ago, we would have said that your cruiser is possessed, but now we know that there is an imbalance of humors caused by a toad or a small dwarf living in the front diff.

- Theodoric of York, medieval engineer

 

[Ackcruisers]

Years ago, we would have said that your cruiser is possessed, but now we know that there is an imbalance of humors caused by a toad or a small dwarf living in the front diff.

- Theodoric of York, medieval engineer

Good engineering, I’ll add that all FJ40’s just want to go off-road...The locking phenomenon is proof.

 

[Trigger6]

Cleaning parts and power washing while wait for engine bearings to show up.

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Wow… your manifold doesn’t have a crack in the bottom like most of them…

 

[Mr. Green]

Opened up Pandora’s box of body repair I’ve been putting off for over 10 months.

Bit of Swiss cheese if I’m lucky…

 

[ToyotaMatt]

 

[d6crawler]

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The only problem with that part is it would mean I have to get the bolt loose that goes on the block end and that probably means a torch, cursing, and possibly welding a new head on it once or twice. Other than that what a nice mod!