Stopped by an impromptu local cars and coffee.
What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week?
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Stopped by an impromptu local cars and coffee.
RevISK
SILVER Star
Looking good.
I like the color
I'm doing the least enjoyable part of a rebuild.
Replace rust with new metal...
Gimme a 60
Time Doesn’t Wait for Me, it Keeps on Rollin!
POROSITY!
mattressking
10 digits to freedom
Drove around town then prepped for a ride in this 389 with a C15 ACERT swap from Bend, Oregon to Philly. This thing is an absolute freight train, nothing better than a Cat.
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Beautiful trucks… I miss driving them. Although your roads look a lot flatter than many I’ve driven on.
A bit… not enough to cause an issue. The solid rod goes all the way through and is welded on both sides. Since the metal was very clean I believe I wasn’t running quite enough shielding gas.
Gimme a 60
Time Doesn’t Wait for Me, it Keeps on Rollin!
JDNs78FJ40
SILVER Star
What’s the plan to fix the lean?
Rex in Bama, can you upload some pics on how you routed your exhaust? It appears you went along the outer frame rail? Based on the axle Im guessing this was the stock routing but Im curious. Thanks
Better switch the springs to heavy and add the 12ply’s..That’s a “whole lotta Rosie”…
One of my 40s has the lean. Decades ago b4 the internet and running a 4" skyjacker lift, i got tired of looking at the lean. I took a ton of measurements resulting in no solutions. So, i decided to swap rear springs from side to side. To my surprise, that didn't work. Later, I found out about the Toyota leveling pads and thought lowering the high side was nutz. Why would anybody want to lower the vehicle? I ended up making a longer shackle. Lowering the shackle frame mount might work too and not be as noticeable.
I had put on 2 heavy coats - single stage epoxy. I was concerned about going through but only had one small area in the rear where I went into the primer. Mostly due to carelessness: got two close to the edge of the rear window. Fortunately, I think it will be cover by the window gasket
It’s all one color - supposed to be capri blue (it was color matched from the original color. The garage lighting makes it look completely different depending on the angle - everything from silver to green
Those corners are tricky! Your efforts are paying off as it looks beautiful!
I’ll take some pics when I’m back at the house. In short, it has headers and routes above the transmission crossmember, then routes over to outside the drivers side frame rail, then to the back above the drivers side rear spring, with the muffler in the stock location. No cat - desmogged.
I am about to swap out the sbc and swap in the 2f I have been fixing up! I am very excited to be all toyota! The stage is set I just need to begin this coming weekend. I am in the last days driving around with the sbc.
