What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week?
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Scotch brite green, simple green, and steel wool (most effective) treatment on the valve cover.
A little bummed I have to cover most of it with the air cleaner assembly
A little bummed I have to cover most of it with the air cleaner assembly
Scotch brite green, simple green, and steel wool (most effective) treatment on the valve cover.
A little bummed I have to cover most of it with the air cleaner assembly
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Finish it off with some AUTOSOL and you’ll be finding a new air filter so that you can use it as a mirror when needed.
I’d recommend coating it with a good automotive wax regularly to preserve your hard work. The other thing I’d mention is if there’s any paint or clear coat (on covers), paint stripper saves a ton of work.
Edit: on second look, your’s looks painted… so polishing it to a mirror finish would require stripping it first. If the paint is still good, I’d not go down that very tempting, shiny, road.
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When replacing one captive nut takes half a day. Locating it the same as the opposite side is important so the running boards line up.
I spent a good chunk of a day once to put captive nuts in the cowl of my 45 on the passenger side to match the factory ones on the driver’s side for a second side mirror.
Only another 45 enthusiast would notice. But it makes me smile.
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Skreddy
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She’d make them for people. She makes a lot of stuff for seasons and school shirts, etc for people. Not sure they’d be cost effective though.New line of “Merch”...!!?? I’ll take a an XXL.
Skreddy
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Reefmonkey makes one with an upside down bezel but it says “flip me over”. Probably on par with her price she sells shirts for usually.
I had to make sure she knew which way the bezel went!
Name your price. You might be surprised what us cruiser heads would pay. I mean I dropped $200 on a Vader light pull switch. We have poor compulsion control when it comes to spending on 40 series related products
Skreddy
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She says she’s open to making them. Shipping might make it not worthwhile for people but?
I'll definitely take one. PM me the price and I can get you my address for shipping
I’m trying to put together a trail repair stick welder kit. (Could have used it on a buddies tru k couple days ago). I’ve only ever used mig, so I’m in the dark on stick welding. What rod would be recommended for trail repairs?
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Second mirror is fairly common. Had many pre 68 40 series that had them as not. When I bought my 45 back in January 1997 the PO had mounted two non stock mirrors on each door. Have some actual pictures from Lincoln, California the day I picked it up. Didn't have a
FJ25 chrome emblem on the hood like yours but PO did drill a hole in the chrome ornament and put part of a trophy of a quarterback throwing a football mounted.
Took a while but about forty years ago found a LAND CRUISER stamped bezel.
Wasn't until this century found out the grill did not have the Land Cruiser emblem. Took awhile but found a grill prior to Toyota emblem. That was probably fifteen years ago. It's still in the unopened box it came in. Maybe my next birthday I'll open it. Not the only unopened box I have. I possibly may have some type of disorder. My wife bought me this coffee cup.
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I have to find someone to do that to my hardtop side for the lift gate brace
Fresh oil and filter, new spark plugs today. Tomorrow new upper/lower radiator hose and fresh antifreeze. Headed to the Ozarks this weekend with my son for Rendezvous in the Ozarks. See if the ole man 40 can keep up with all the younguns in their 4 Runners.
I don’t know if a trail repair stick welder changes the rod… but if you go to an older welding shop and ask for “Farmers Rod” they’ll hand you a box of 6013. If you look ip the number it’ll give you exact specs.
The bottom line is that it’ll weld together two pieces of moderately rusty metal and hold it together. It has 60k psi strength, reasonably decent looking welds, and works with less than perfect prep. ie. to patch up the tractor and get it out of the field. Sometimes the surfaces are a bit rusty, painted, oily, wet… far from perfect.
I have one of these:
Ready Welder
The above pic is a connector that exits the wiring harness just midway on the front driver fender. It isn’t plugged to anything and I haven’t been able to identify it with the wiring schematic. Does anyone recognize it? I feel like it should be obvious but I can’t identify it