What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week? (31 Viewers)

[ethernectar]

Very nice. Who makes the Can Carrier on there or is that custom too? Thanks.

That's AOE's can carrier, they have them cut and then fold/weld them up. @Alex Carvallo

 

[Skydog]

British colors; they had to do something to distract looks from the leaking oil spots on the pavement.

I don't mind your saying that at all. Every person & every company has their strengths & weaknesses. We all know that. For me, I grew up, as a kid, being told all British cars have electrical problems. All of them. And the man who told that to me was a vintage Jaguar FANATIC !!... within the garage of his home, he would be rebuilding them (the really, really old ones) two or three of them at a time.

More currently, a client of mine believes Range Rovers are the greatest thing God has given to man. I tried to interject the word 'women,' but he wouldn't listen. He ONLY wanted to talk about Range Rovers, and specifically his. Soooooo, I created the image below, and emailed it to him, thanking him for letting me design his company's logo & helping his company establish its corporate identity (the attempted humor was all taken in good stride ):

~Skydog

 

[Vossie]

Info on the headlights please, I would like to do the same to mine. Price, where to buy?

PM sent

me too please

 

[Lazman]

me too please

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[65swb45]

Got my 45 into the rack for some spring work before KOH.
Anyone who's been to my shop in the last few years knows I have been so impacted with projects that I have not had use of my service lift. So getting the 45 in is pretty much a milestone for getting back on track (which really means putting those other projects on hold!)

 

[wngrog]

Took it for its first drive!!

 

[65swb45]

Forgot to post what I went 'in' after:

 

[David70FJ40]

@wngrog I like the sound of the engine in your 40. Is it a stock F engine and what mufflers are you using?

 

[Solace in Solitude]

If I'm going to be up might as well post something, don't want to wake the wife with the sound of grinders at 4am.
Put some more bracing in, just to make sure it don't move.View attachment 1394152 Braced up the floor pan, before I started cutting it out. Little worried about it being so flimsy on that inside edge, while I'm working on it.View attachment 1394153 Still have to cut some more out, thinking I might get some rockers bent up. Can some one tell me what those 2 longer bolts, on the upper left, go to? Coming up through the portion of floor pan I cut out. Maybe jack hold down? View attachment 1394154 Man, I got to stop and make time to clean up. Shop is looking bad.

It's looking good Nolen!!

 

[Solace in Solitude]

I think this goes back three weeks...

All I've done is drive it, get it muddy in the melting snow, pressure washed the mud off, repeat, repeat.

Here's some pics.

 

[wngrog]

@wngrog I like the sound of the engine in your 40. Is it a stock F engine and what mufflers are you using?

Fresh 2F with a header and a Cherry Bomb.

Im putting a real exhaust on it soon. My 60 has a flowmaster 40 and it sounds great

 

[WaTrout88]

I, personally, like what you did. I like that hue of green. A hue that's rugged looking & nature-wise adventurous. And true to the heart of the nature of the '40 series, the paint is not metallic, but rather remains as a simple solid. I say nothing wrong with metallic though, albeit on a more heavily modified '40 (Metallics of course present a unique depth that the solid colors naturally lack).

And that you chose a Land Rover hue of color, I like that you went out of 'the box.' Which I think, in a number of ways, is cool.

No doubt an Uber-Attractive rig would be the one below, repainted a British vintage Jaguar color, 'Willow Green.'
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And in honest, I can't imagine a better looking blue than Land Rover's Arles Blue. It's soooo rare of a color on "our Toyota" - a Land Rover color !! But how can one argue that it NOT LOOK GOOD ? Particularly to the novice, who constitute just shy of 100% of the people on the streets who will compliment you, daily, on your future rebuilt vehicle. An Arles Blue FJ40, which I find looks awesome, is below. The color is most similar to Toyota's medium bluish color of Cadet Blue, although Arles is more bluish, and Cadet is more gray.

The only Arles Blue I know of (belonging to MUD member, @nick ) :
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And the only Cadet Blue I know of :
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I say your Coniston Green will look Great on your rig !! ~Skydog

Thanks Skydog. That is what i was going for , outdoors color yet it still stands out, almost like the color of a maple leaf when the sun hits it.

 

[WaTrout88]

I don't mind your saying that at all. Every person & every company has their strengths & weaknesses. We all know that. For me, I grew up, as a kid, being told all British cars have electrical problems. All of them. And the man who told that to me was a vintage Jaguar FANATIC !!... within the garage of his home, he would be rebuilding them (the really, really old ones) two or three of them at a time.

More currently, a client of mine believes Range Rovers are the greatest thing God has given to man. I tried to interject the word 'women,' but he wouldn't listen. He ONLY wanted to talk about Range Rovers, and specifically his. Soooooo, I created the image below, and emailed it to him, thanking him for letting me design his company's logo & helping his company establish its corporate identity (the attempted humor was all taken in good stride ):
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~Skydog

Haha I just noticed the strap and the FJ towing the LR home. FJs are far superior and when I bought mine it was reasonably priced too.

 

[65swb45]

Lost some pics. but any way on to the outer partView attachment 1393246 After getting it all good welded her upView attachment 1393248 I ended up cutting the wing on the right along the flanges , and jacking up the inside corner. It looked better before I put the outer portion on.View attachment 1393251
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Long ways to go!

Hey Nolen

You've got some pretty good lighting going on in your shop. Would you mind posting specs in the Home Improvement thread. I'm gonna be redoing the lighting in my shop once the new pallet racks are in, and I like looking at options. @jetranger already reminded me I really do need a fresh coat of paint on the floor.

 

[Wes]

Showed it to my new daughter.

 

[Redgrrr]

Congrats on the new kiddo Wes!

Added a rusty 1972 to the Hurd.
Plates are from 1998, hoping I can get it starting, stopping and driving by summer.

 

[74HogGuy]

Making slow progress towards the disc brake conversion on the 40.

 

[4Cruisers]

I decided to finally replace the home-made (by some PO) extended rear shackles on my '76 FJ40. They're almost 6" long, as opposed to roughly 2-3/4" for stock shackles. No need for them anyway as I'm running BFG LT235/75R15 ATs on FJ60 chrome spoke wheels, so no need for clearance. They were kluged together using roughly cut flat bar and a mixture of bolts, washers, and nuts, along with steel sleeves to fill the annulus between the skinny bolts and the rubber bushings. None of the four bolts/hardware were the same, and some were metric and some were SAE. One of the bolts snapped off inboard when I tried to loosen the nut after soaking in PB Blaster. A lot of the metal was gone, eaten away by rust. The rusty remnants were so ugly I didn't even bother to take a photo. I happened to have some good used stock shackles that I bought on Pirate4X4 over 15 years ago, just never got around to installing them.

The vehicle is normally driven in town and locally to access the many remote trailheads surrounding us. So replacing the shackles really wasn't much of a priority. But that will change with the upcoming arrival of the FJ40 Cross Country Expedition batons in New Mexico. The FJ40's really only been on the highway a few times. A couple of summers ago we camped at O'Haver lake above Salida, CO (home of Classic Cruisers), and had to drive into town on US 285 for refueling. One day we headed east on US 285 and then back up US 50 to the top of Monarch Pass - thank goodness for the many passing lanes. We also drove from our campsite over a really nice (and very narrow) old mining road (Toll Road Gulch) into Bonanza. From there we headed southeast back to US 285 to go north over Poncha Pass (more passing lanes) to our campsite.

 

[mrboatman]

Installed some new seats and did the mini truck power steering install.

 

[tls3601]

@4 Cruisers great photo-would love to wheel my '78 out in CO