I hopefully will be picking up the shifter column shifter and linkage pretty soon! now I just gotta find an engine thats not an SBC haha.
What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week?
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Spotted a real nice rustic green with a new soft top today, not many FJ’s near Cohoes, NY. Of course I was in a hurry and had the 4Runner and not Dusty ( kids named it that). Had planned on driving the land cruiser but had other errands. Would’ve been cool to see it up close. I will need to be on the look out for it in the future.
Trying to tart this one up for sale to one of those ladies shopping gor "guy" cars. But I need to smooth out the ride because they don't want a "real" guy car, too rough for most.
Working on installing city racer headlights
That truck is epic
Won second at a car show. Can’t show pictures of the show, but I can of the award.
I received my tool bag hold down and jack bracket parts from Heritage Cruiser @cwags12 on Friday, but I got busy rebuilding a porch this weekend. So, I got to the parking lot at work a little early this morning, and went ahead and bolted them in, about a 10 minute deal. Here's a picture and then I have a question:
So I opened the MicroFiche up this morning to make sure I had oriented everything correctly, and it made me start wondering: for the 2 rubber band hold down pieces, has anyone turned them outwards so to speak? It seems like the MicroFiche indicates that they are turned towards 2 & 10 o'clock if it were a clock face:
It looks right the way it is, and I've seen pictures of it done that way many times. But you all know why I am asking, FJ40 perfection is a healthy ...... hobby?
So I opened the MicroFiche up this morning to make sure I had oriented everything correctly, and it made me start wondering: for the 2 rubber band hold down pieces, has anyone turned them outwards so to speak? It seems like the MicroFiche indicates that they are turned towards 2 & 10 o'clock if it were a clock face:
It looks right the way it is, and I've seen pictures of it done that way many times. But you all know why I am asking, FJ40 perfection is a healthy ...... hobby?
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We went out to my bros. farm to get the boat. Fortunately, I drove the 40 out to be the chase vehicle because I was the only one who had a jack and tools handy.
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Looks like pretty close to the correct era tools to fix the trailer!
Got rid of the pure garbage plywood "cutting board" on the drop down table.
Front runner table?
Also I had completely forgot about starboard. Thanks for the reminder. I was just thinking yesterday I need a pice of something like that but couldn’t remember what it was other than HDPE
Just realized my 40 turned 47 this month, it's had an interesting history and is still going strong. May 1976 was a long time ago, really an age gone by by today's reckoning. This thing is testament to Toyota toughness, I highly doubt anything built in the last decade will favor as well in terms of longevity. I was lucky enough to get it in '95 as the third owner with 44,373 on the odometer for $5K. Original owner used it as a hunting rig, second owner only had it a few months before selling then it was all mine. There were plenty of crazy mods those guys did that I had to undo or fix, but it wasn't long before I had it running well and reliable. It was my daily driver/weekend wheeler for a couple years before becoming the weekend warrior it is now and even took my first born child home from the hospital 26 years ago today. We have had so many great off road adventures in it around the PNW, no other truck could survive the crap I've pulled in the woods. Strangely enough I have only put a little more than 30K miles on it in all that time, seems like it should be more, maybe all that bouncing around you do in a 40 has something to do with that. Can't imagine how much gas it has consumed since I have had it, bet I have spent a small fortune at the gas station to date. Smiles per mile, right? What an awesome fun ride it's been so far, plenty more to come to. Thanks for reading!
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