What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week? (29 Viewers)

[Vae Victus]

More pics in my thread but wanted to say thank you and brag on @Coolerman for my new wiring harness! Great quality work sir.

 

[Vae Victus]

View attachment 1792877 Bought this contaption at a yard sale.

Damn, that's a sweet find! I paid $850 in raw parts to build mine. And I don't have an easy way to rotate mine like I see you have on the left side of the photo.

Here's mine in use:

 

[65swb45]

Here is a fun one for keeping to OEM parts. I put a Napa slave cylinder on my 79 with the pin that came with it (on the left). I figured its a little smaller than the OEM one (on the right) but it should be fine.

Wrong. After a couple days, the nut on the smaller pin shot through the hole in the arm on the clutch and I had to start the 40 and drive it home in first gear.

If you ever want to look like a loser. Start your cruiser while its in first gear with no clutch at a Starbucks.

I took it to Napa and they said I should have bought the better quality slave cylinder.

THE HELL.

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Several suppliers no longer include a pushrod because of QC issues like this. Over the years I have also seen pushrods that were only 8mm thick instead of the 10mm stock. Considering I have seen a 10mm one snapped in half, there's no way I would sell or install the 8mm one.

 

[smtdvm]

Damn, that's a sweet find! I paid $850 in raw parts to build mine. And I don't have an easy way to rotate mine like I see you have on the left side of the photo.

Here's mine in use:



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Yours looks to do the job. I got this one for $500. Cost more than that to ship it up here. But, I don’t really need it for anything right now.

 

[land cruiser kid]

Autch! But you have been lucky, not much damage at all after the windshield. Why new windshield frame, is it bent so badly? I can’t see... I’d rather straighten that one.

Not sure if you can zoom in but the impact flexed the cowl cracked the paint and the seam sealer, quite an extensive amount of work. The windshield frame is bent pretty good, I'll straighten it out enough for a trail rig but not this 40. It's a high end full restoration.

 

[73tlcv8]

No power since last Friday, got her out of the garage and winched some downed trees around. Thank you Florence.

 

[oregon fj]

Getting more complete all the time.

 

[Dagha Boy]

The speed at which you work scares me. Beautiful work too.

 

[Sheck44]

Cant wait to see this come together Arne ... well done sir
Steve

 

[S4Cruiser]

The speed at which you work scares me. Beautiful work too.

Accurate statement for how I feel too!!

 

[jfz80]

Sometimes its the little things.

Found a new OEM fuel pump and filter in a box of parts that came with rig so they went on which fixed a non oem union leak. Replaced a rear brake lense and wired up the keyed ignition with some help from @Rice vs last weeks start button. Added horn to said start button. But best was cleaning the seatbelts... Gross... 40 yrs of gunk n grime. The belts were stiff and oily and you couldn't even read the labels beforehand.

 

[S4Cruiser]

Sometimes its the little things.

Found a new OEM fuel pump and filter in a box of parts that came with rig so they went on which fixed a non oem union leak. Replaced a rear brake lense and wired up the keyed ignition with some help from @Rice vs last weeks start button. Added horn to said start button. But best was cleaning the seatbelts... Gross... 40 yrs of gunk n grime. The belts were stiff and oily and you couldn't even read the labels beforehand.
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Just soap and water or secret recipe??

 

[sterling]

Never had a center console before, inexpensive upgrade.

 

[jfz80]

Just soap and water or secret recipe??

Secret recipe

All them locals been ravin bout this stuff since i moved up here Local madison deal and biodegradable to boot.

This was 2 cups in a gallon of water. Soak/shake over an hour. Rinse well. Mud wont upload live pics today but Charlie’s soap.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004...rlies+soap&dpPl=1&dpID=41UFKraFqYL&ref=plSrch

 

[Predator42]

Today I built a canopy for the bed. Lots more to do still but had to run a test fit.

 

[skidplate]

You have two different tail gates?

 

[Martyt]

As they said in the movie Rounders, “lotta action” today. Mark was visiting friends in San Diego this weekend and he brought down my OEM soft top channel for my 69. I also bought the OEM fuel line from carb to pump. Installed the channel and line today. I went to clean the line but it was perfectly clean and could not get any speck of any grime out of it. Used Permatex perma shield— no leaks. I also reorganized the vacuum switching lines per what I saw on a concours 69FST. These picks show the channel, the new line and the buggered one the PO hacked. Also bought (and pictured) is yet another’s extra 3/69-9/69 carb. I boght this one because it had the hard to find solenoid— I wanted a spare. Anyway , good meeting Mark in person and chatting with him and a big thanks to him for everything!

 

[Martyt]

 

[Martyt]

Glad that hideous holly fuel regulator is off and the orig fuel line back in. Up next is replacing all of my hose clamps with original clamps; I did replace some but not all. Also, am replacing some of the hoses with the original red hose (so long as they are in good shape). Mainly PVC line from carb, the pvc line from the air cleaner to the valve cover and a couple of water lines (the rest were black but I need to confirm). The water overflow was a reddish clear--need to investigate that as well. Later gents. m

 

[Vulcan]

Today I took apart my doors (for the most part). I know its hard to see the door panel in the second picture because of the bang-up camo paint job...