Scouting some new fishing spots?
What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week?
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Well, not too much by the way of photos, but spent a chilly Michigan winter day playing with phosphoric acid cleaning and prepping the tub for sealer.. feels so good to see it this nice! Long time coming, for sure!
That, hunting and looking for a change in scenery.
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That looks like a great fit.View attachment 2897339View attachment 28973423FE headers onto the ‘73. Runs good!
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Aside from grinding down the exhaust manifold tabs to meet the intake, it went on perfectly. The old intake doesn’t need to be ground down to clear the exhaust like later models do.
What AC kit is that? My 40 has those same vents, but nothing else anymore.
i did a bit of In-House Hand Made Teq KARMA / Paying Forward this past Teq Weekend here a the SKUNK-WORKS LAB .............
i hope its PERIOD Correct enough
@Dizzy
Great work Matt.
Sounds like you already have this sorted out, but the power supply out of a old computer tower is perfect for powering the headlights on these. Best part is they are usually free and you have a few different options for DC voltage to get the perfect glow.
For others considering this: wire the headlights in series and use a household thermostat transformer. They are 24 VAC and the lights don't care.
Depending on the bulbs you have, those 24VAC control power transformers are usually only rated for 40 VA, or 40 W for your resistive incandescent bulbs. This could overload/overheat the transformer. Even worse, LEDs have a power factor so VA is higher than W for those. Rule of thumb is to only load the transformer to 80% of VA rating.
This is absolutely correct. I should have added that since most often a 'wall art' with headlamps will be dimmed down
considerably from full beam brightness, a suitable resistor should naturally be inserted in series with the headlamps.
Also useable are the similar doorbell transformers that can be found at a higher rating.
I think I'm going to drive down to the ski hill on Thursday in the Cruiser, it's always fun to take it down there, I'm usually there early enough in the morning that I get front row!
Added front runner cross bars with Overland awning for camping excursions.
Last Monday the test said I had Covid. I did get a tad sick, but nothing crazy, felt like a cold to me. But more importantly, that test afforded me a mandatory 5 days off of work!. Sure I had to use my own sick time, but I've got like 1400 hours cause I never get sick. I tried coming back to work this Monday but they said b/c I was still coughing, no go. Oh please let me come back to work! 
So, needless to say, I've been finding things to do on the 40. I started with the rollbar:
I had to wire-wheel down all the rustoleum rusty metal primer. Fun fact: although this site taught me that the 77 - 78 early rollbar should have been satin black, mine was positively gloss black, no question about it, lots of original paint under the brackets etc. So, back to gloss:
So today I went to check at the Toyota dealership to see if my new M10 bolts came in for the rollbar, but no dice. But I did get this nice consolation prize:
Other than that, and no pictures, I also fixed the one broken lug that I had on the passenger front wheel (of course with Toyota parts including a new lug nut), then I took it to town and got the tires rotated. Today I took off the wiper motor cover to do a "quick and easy" job (promised my girlfriend I would take it easy today)... Yeah the wire wheel taught me that the cover was eat up with rust. For now, I cleaned it up, hit it with some ospho, and did a skim coat of JB Weld for the pin-holes. Once that cures I can sand it down and it should be fairly decent after some Cruiser Corps T621 rattle can. Oh, I also tightened up the timing cover bolts, they "got loose" (how does that happen) and I was coating everything with oil. Er, I mean I had a correctly operating FJ40 anti-corrosion system coating the underside of the truck .
So, needless to say, I've been finding things to do on the 40. I started with the rollbar:I had to wire-wheel down all the rustoleum rusty metal primer. Fun fact: although this site taught me that the 77 - 78 early rollbar should have been satin black, mine was positively gloss black, no question about it, lots of original paint under the brackets etc. So, back to gloss:
So today I went to check at the Toyota dealership to see if my new M10 bolts came in for the rollbar, but no dice. But I did get this nice consolation prize:
Other than that, and no pictures, I also fixed the one broken lug that I had on the passenger front wheel (of course with Toyota parts including a new lug nut), then I took it to town and got the tires rotated. Today I took off the wiper motor cover to do a "quick and easy" job (promised my girlfriend I would take it easy today)... Yeah the wire wheel taught me that the cover was eat up with rust. For now, I cleaned it up, hit it with some ospho, and did a skim coat of JB Weld for the pin-holes. Once that cures I can sand it down and it should be fairly decent after some Cruiser Corps T621 rattle can. Oh, I also tightened up the timing cover bolts, they "got loose" (how does that happen) and I was coating everything with oil. Er, I mean I had a correctly operating FJ40 anti-corrosion system coating the underside of the truck .
Noticed this gap between a linkage shaft and it's holder. Been there a while i bet. Went to my new favorite hardware store and bought a bushing. Bronze. Fit the shaft nicely, a little loose filling the bracket hole, so. A little Gorilla tape and grease and i was in business. That oughta take care of that lack of throttle response
