What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week? (65 Viewers)

[bikersmurf]

Thanks a lot for the great advice. I realize that this truck needs some work, but this is also what I am looking for. I want to do a poor man's version of the Icon truck:

This is the best one I have seen for sale around here in Nicaragua so far. Most of them look pretty beat up like this one:

Will go there again next week with plenty of time to check it out.
Any other things I should look for?

The biggest thing, other than a vin, would be rust. Ring a magnet to look for filler. Expect to find rust at seams, in the rockers, around the frame. If the frame has light surface rust it's ok, less is better... Bring a sharp pointy screw driver, if it goes through the frame, I'd likely walk away... Unless the price changed a whole lot. Frames rust worst in the inside in the middle, the rear, and around the spring mounts.

Study the wrecks you see around, they'll be your key to understanding the bad areas.

Those 70 series turn signals look stock when mounted to the aprons.

 

[fzr400guy]

Installed the last part of my trouble shooting/top half motor refresh.

Oil catch can

Motor all back together now......still need to replace that ugly orange vacuum hose....

Parts installed during the valve chatter repair ordeal.

Bosch Platinum spark plugs
Autozone spark plug wires
MSD 8394 Digital E-Curve Distributor
Edelbrock 5894 Sure Seat valve spring kit
Edelbrock 1925 Q Jet bolt kit
Summit Racing valve cover baffle kit
Spectre Performance 4921 PCV 1 inch breather
Procomp 2001 aluminum intake manifold
MLS head gasket
Fel-Pro 1205 intake manifold gasket
JDM Square Style Oil Catch Tank
A bunch of various vacuum hose from Autozone

The issue turned out to be excess oil being sucked into the combustion chamber through my old PCV setup. The aluminum valve covers were not baffled. The oil fouled up the inside of the intake, the heads, and the piston faces. This caused a ton of detonation which sounded like the valves chattering.

 

[nuclearlemon]

we dropped the windshield and joined in the denver st patty's day parade.

 

[allana13]

Love the instrument cluster. Where did you get it from

 

[brian]

put the glass back in the windshield frame with a new gasket, then put the works back on the cruiser.

 

[Mongoose317]

Had a few hours so got the pan and side cover cleaned and blasted.


Then painted.

 

[huminajumina]

looks good mongoose!!!! I painted my 2F pan real nice and brazed the holes, then it kept leaking, I had to buy one of the rare and expensive new toyota pans...... now it just sets in the basement, gotta get a picture of it and post it to the classifieds......... yours looks great though!!!!!! And solid!!!!!

 

[Chamba]

Drove it 378 miles for my business (out to a drilling rig in west Texas). Made a gas mileage record for this truck, averaging 60 mph with a (mostly) tail wind: 274.7 miles on one tank for 15.8 mpg! Not bad for the original 2F.

That's almost exactly what I average with mine. If I do just highway I'm in the 16s. Damned nice looking rig too, that's worth at least 5-10 mpg I reckon. Love the hub caps...very nice.

 

[coachdeuce]

I put a new radiator and water pump into my '75. Simple job, but it feels good to start the improvements.

 

[fjeng]

Finished the roof rack and all the extras, drove it to the roundup and had a blast! What a great bunch of people.



Getting gas! That E really is E we ran out of gas on the trip , the can carriers came in handy to get us back on the road







Just a cool shot

 

[DSRTRDR]

I wheeled it

 

[RockTactics]

I got the rear frame rails bent and tacked into place. I also bent up a couple pieces for my rear bumper, added a hitch. I then started to bend my family cage. The cage is also part of the chassis. I will get some more tube this weekend. I plan to bend the other side, add some tube, and work on the sliders.

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[Huroneymoose]

I see contraband hanging on the wall.

 

[Huroneymoose]

The soft top was impedding performance. So I promptly removed it and continued on.

 

[Diskord]

The soft top was impedding performance. So I promptly removed it and continued on.

Very nice !!

Sent using my Star Trek communicator thingy

 

[Baltoro Jeeper]

Entertained a funny idea for sometime.....

 

[oldmuddog]

QUOTE=Huroneymoose;8406529]I see contraband hanging on the wall.[/QUOTE] I thought a stray bird flew into his shop and pooped on the wall trying to escape.

 

[MicahMan]

FUnny

QUOTE=Huroneymoose;8406529]I see contraband hanging on the wall.

I thought a stray bird flew into his shop and pooped on the wall trying to escape.[/QUOTE]

Those are just the rigs he's rescued in his cruiser!

 

[jmdaniel]

The soft top was impedding performance. So I promptly removed it and continued on.

Love the bowtie!

 

[Volcanic Iceberg]

I retrofitted a tire carrier from a 76' to go on the drivers side for better visiblility. Then I built an accessory for my OEM swing out tire carrier out of some steel I had laying around. Holds 3 jerry cans, or a cooler, or an action packer, etc. Bolts to existing holes incase I ever want to go back to carying a tire. Just need to take it to the media blaster now.