What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week?

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This past week has been all about wiring for me. When I towed the Cruiser home in July it had a burned up wiring harness, nothing electrical worked in it. For the short term I wired up two fused circuits for the coil and starter so I could get the engine running and be able to move the vehicle around. This past week was spent building a new harness. Being retired with lots of time on my hands I built it from scratch. I'm now down to just a few more circuits and a little more soldering as I'm not a fan of crimp connectors. Mrs. King took the pix .

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@mattolewis that is a beautiful job well done and I hope you never need it…but for me at 71, it’s a jungle gym I would have trouble navigating
 
You most likely have seen some drivers in positions that defy good visibility like the nearly reclined seats of some of the “buzz bomb” Hondas I have seen around here. I need my seats to be high and upright so I can see easily over the hood. Whether or not it is foam compression or something else, this got resolved easily by raising the rear mounts on my FJ40.

Cut 2 of theses blocks of 1 1/4” square tubing and drilled the appropriate sized M12 holes. this worked perfectly and does not crunch your stomach into the steering wheel.


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40 series put in some highway miles from Atlanta to Old Buzzards Roost trail in NC.
Makes you appreciate some highways more than others.
Good times!
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@DylanH239 how’d it go at the car show? And…what did you use to replace the vacuum lines?
 
knuckle47 said:
@DylanH239 how’d it go at the car show? And…what did you use to replace the vacuum lines?
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The car show went great I didn’t win anything but got to drive the 40 about 75 miles round trip. Farthest I’ve driven it and it did well also got to see a 79 FJ40 that had been restored…as far as the vacuum hoses I used Toyota part #90999-92003 (12 bags) &
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@DylanH239 thanks for the part numbers…

i haven't been to any car shows yet and there are always a few around here, plus, local cruise nights. The best for me so far is stopping for gas. It never fails to spark a conversation and takes a few minutes before you can politely hop in and drive off
 
knuckle47 said:
@DylanH239 thanks for the part numbers…

i haven't been to any car shows yet and there are always a few around here, plus, local cruise nights. The best for me so far is stopping for gas. It never fails to spark a conversation and takes a few minutes before you can politely hop in and drive off
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I’ve only seen 2 other FJ40 in my area both restored so no local cruiser clubs unfortunately (that I know of). Funny that you say that pretty much whenever I take “Larry the Landcruiser”out (mostly weekends) people always spark up a conversation about how they had one when they were my age (23). It’s always cool to hear about when these were common to see on the road or on a trail.
 
Well we lead parallel lives…my first Land Cruiser was when I was 21…that was 50 YEARS AGO! 😂
 
@78crzr Great looking 40….another of my favorite colors. I no longer get out of New Jersey much but a few yrs ago drove from Dallas to Waco… the straightest road I have ever driven.
 
igotta40 said:
Where did you go in Houston?
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Off of Franklin St. downtown. Couple blocks from Post, where Coffee & Cars meets first Saturday of every month. We are there for about half of the events per year. We should meet there sometime?
 
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