I wondered that myself.......I received conflicting answers both ways. What is your opinion on this?
After looking more at them, I think I'm going to flip them. Boot up!
What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week? (73 Viewers)
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After looking more at them, I think I'm going to flip them. Boot up!
Hi Pete,
I can take another pic, but there isn't much more to see. It's just a rolling chassis at this point.
From my understanding monotube shocks can be mounted either direction. On my mini truck I run the fronts with the can up, and the rears with the can down.
JohnnyC
Long ago TLCA# 2231
call me old school.... shocks pointed down look wrong 
This I did not know.
Learn something from here all the time. I don't believe I've ever seen a vehicle with them upside down. Granted I have limited experience in viewing shocks. I had no idea, always thought it would be safer to run them "Normal"?
Learn something from here all the time. I don't believe I've ever seen a vehicle with them upside down. Granted I have limited experience in viewing shocks. I had no idea, always thought it would be safer to run them "Normal"?
Installed my Billsteins with the printed on text oriented so that it was readable when installed
(Yes, the shipping strap was removed...)
(Yes, the shipping strap was removed...)
3 easy things today:
Replaced my floppy annoying mirrors with new ones from Racer65. I was surprised that both mirrors are wide view rather than the usual wide view on the passenger side and normal view on the drivers side but I am sure after some adjustment it will be fine to have a wide view on the driver side as well. They really look nice.
For the nearly 16 years that I've owned my truck the horn has been really anemic. The last time I used it I was embarrassed that I even bothered, it was hardly audible to the person I was was honking at and turned heads on the sidewalk from people wondering "what is that lame buzzing noise?" So, I bought the Harbor Freight horns that get generally good reviews, seem to be loud, and certainly cheap ($8) and went to install them today. After taking off one of my factory horns I was surprised how well made they seemed to be and got to wondering what the various screws I see did. Turns out they are tunable, yea. I turned out the center back screw that sets the depth of the magnet and also turned in the little adjustment screw (see pic) on the back that does, well, adjusting... They are 10 times louder than they've ever been! They are now as loud or louder than the HF horns and while a little higher pitched are still attention getting! Very much easier than mounting and bodge-wiring the HF ones!
And thirdly I epoxied a broken cover on my drivers side seat belt receiver. I bought a new receiver second hand from Cruiser Parts, but the one they sent looks like it sat in a junk yard, in the sun, since 1972. I decided to just epoxy the piece back on and go on with life
Replaced my floppy annoying mirrors with new ones from Racer65. I was surprised that both mirrors are wide view rather than the usual wide view on the passenger side and normal view on the drivers side but I am sure after some adjustment it will be fine to have a wide view on the driver side as well. They really look nice.
For the nearly 16 years that I've owned my truck the horn has been really anemic. The last time I used it I was embarrassed that I even bothered, it was hardly audible to the person I was was honking at and turned heads on the sidewalk from people wondering "what is that lame buzzing noise?" So, I bought the Harbor Freight horns that get generally good reviews, seem to be loud, and certainly cheap ($8) and went to install them today. After taking off one of my factory horns I was surprised how well made they seemed to be and got to wondering what the various screws I see did. Turns out they are tunable, yea. I turned out the center back screw that sets the depth of the magnet and also turned in the little adjustment screw (see pic) on the back that does, well, adjusting... They are 10 times louder than they've ever been! They are now as loud or louder than the HF horns and while a little higher pitched are still attention getting! Very much easier than mounting and bodge-wiring the HF ones!
And thirdly I epoxied a broken cover on my drivers side seat belt receiver. I bought a new receiver second hand from Cruiser Parts, but the one they sent looks like it sat in a junk yard, in the sun, since 1972. I decided to just epoxy the piece back on and go on with life
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Bear Lake Cruiser
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Nice info on the horns tom!
Thanks. There is a nice warble to the horn now too....mpg of the horn blowing here: http://bgp.nu/~tom/pub/fj40-horn.mpg
Not this week, but a few weeks ago I got around to getting some tunes into my fj40. My radio only worked intermittently and the single speaker that is nearly impossible to get to in my truck (due to an aftermarket A/C unit installed) sounded like crap, couldn't even understand voices on the news.
I read the various threads here and I was thinking of going the route of rebuilding my factory radio into a bluetooth receiver to keep the original look on the dash. I investigated the retrofitters and electronics for sale for modding the factory radio. That seemed overly expensive for what you get and I decided I was going to head down the path of taking a spare Raspberry Pi and making it a media server and hiding it in the radio carcass and installing an amp somewhere.
I already decided I was going to buy some outdoor speakers and mount them to the roll cage uprights in the back as user fj718 had done in this thread: stereo speakers in a FJ40. Thanks for the idea fj718, works great!
While buying the speakers I happened upon a Pioneer radio that didn't look too flashy, most of them look stupid, IMO, with all their multi-color flashing lights and star-trek style face plates. Just looks out of place in the FJ40. This one is fairly plain (as they go) and you can set the light color to match your dash. So, I took the easy way out and bought the Pioneer, some Polk Atrium 5s and wired it up. It sounds pretty good considering the acoustics of an FJ40 to begin with, and the fact that my cell phone speaker sounds better than what I had! It is fairly subdued especially when off so I don't mind it.
I had to ditch the housing that Pioneer supplies that one is suppose to mount in the hole in the dash and then slide the unit into because it is 1/8" too large in both dimensions. But the radio unit itself fits perfectly in the hole with no trim pieces around it and one can easily remove the face plate to thwart thieves if need be. It is the MVHX560BT if anyone cares.
I read the various threads here and I was thinking of going the route of rebuilding my factory radio into a bluetooth receiver to keep the original look on the dash. I investigated the retrofitters and electronics for sale for modding the factory radio. That seemed overly expensive for what you get and I decided I was going to head down the path of taking a spare Raspberry Pi and making it a media server and hiding it in the radio carcass and installing an amp somewhere.
I already decided I was going to buy some outdoor speakers and mount them to the roll cage uprights in the back as user fj718 had done in this thread: stereo speakers in a FJ40. Thanks for the idea fj718, works great!
While buying the speakers I happened upon a Pioneer radio that didn't look too flashy, most of them look stupid, IMO, with all their multi-color flashing lights and star-trek style face plates. Just looks out of place in the FJ40. This one is fairly plain (as they go) and you can set the light color to match your dash. So, I took the easy way out and bought the Pioneer, some Polk Atrium 5s and wired it up. It sounds pretty good considering the acoustics of an FJ40 to begin with, and the fact that my cell phone speaker sounds better than what I had! It is fairly subdued especially when off so I don't mind it.
I had to ditch the housing that Pioneer supplies that one is suppose to mount in the hole in the dash and then slide the unit into because it is 1/8" too large in both dimensions. But the radio unit itself fits perfectly in the hole with no trim pieces around it and one can easily remove the face plate to thwart thieves if need be. It is the MVHX560BT if anyone cares.
Not this week, but a few weeks ago I got around to getting some tunes into my fj40. My radio only worked intermittently and the single speaker that is nearly impossible to get to in my truck (due to an aftermarket A/C unit installed) sounded like crap, couldn't even understand voices on the news.
I read the various threads here and I was thinking of going the route of rebuilding my factory radio into a bluetooth receiver to keep the original look on the dash. I investigated the retrofitters and electronics for sale for modding the factory radio. That seemed overly expensive for what you get and I decided I was going to head down the path of taking a spare Raspberry Pi and making it a media server and hiding it in the radio carcass and installing an amp somewhere.
I already decided I was going to buy some outdoor speakers and mount them to the roll cage uprights in the back as user fj718 had done in this thread: stereo speakers in a FJ40. Thanks for the idea fj718, works great!
While buying the speakers I happened upon a Pioneer radio that didn't look too flashy, most of them look stupid, IMO, with all their multi-color flashing lights and star-trek style face plates. Just looks out of place in the FJ40. This one is fairly plain (as they go) and you can set the light color to match your dash. So, I took the easy way out and bought the Pioneer, some Polk Atrium 5s and wired it up. It sounds pretty good considering the acoustics of an FJ40 to begin with, and the fact that my cell phone speaker sounds better than what I had! It is fairly subdued especially when off so I don't mind it.
I had to ditch the housing that Pioneer supplies that one is suppose to mount in the hole in the dash and then slide the unit into because it is 1/8" too large in both dimensions. But the radio unit itself fits perfectly in the hole with no trim pieces around it and one can easily remove the face plate to thwart thieves if need be. It is the MVHX560BT if anyone cares.
Looks GREAT Tom! Nice clean 40, too!
Proud to say bought a brand new set of stock steelies and hub caps! Sending them to Trollhole. Next is tires. Just waiting to see what Black Friday deals I can get on some BFG's. Getting close 
Removed the bench passenger seat to show the old girl that, like me, she may be old, but she's still a workhorse and still has hard yakka to do:
Removed the bench passenger seat to show the old girl that, like me, she may be old, but she's still a workhorse and still has hard yakka to do:
what are you up to Tom that looks like some pretty hard work about to start?
GA Architect
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Installed a Warn Zeon 10, on a CCOT winch plat along with a Toyota OEM front bumper.
So pretty!
Hi Marty
I'm scrubcutting down in the South Island next week (and using up some of my annual leave from work to do so, so the Wellington roads should be safer while I'm away
). I'll need to load a lot more 2L/3L milk-containers of water too because it's hot work even it's if it's raining ... and it's absolute torture if it's sunny. (It's a north-facing hillside and Wellington water tastes much purer/better than the stuff available near the site down there.)
I've learnt in the last few years to wear a dustmask too.... Prior to realising the importance of this, my sinuses used to give me real hell. (There's lots of wattle around and they say the pollen from that at this time of year gives asthma suffers grief so maybe that's my problem.)
I think it's work like this that keeps me as skinny as a rake though.... So I guess that's a benefit. (I couldn't get into some of the crazy positions I need to get in to work on some parts of the cruiser if I had a big gut I guess.)
If you didn't use the housing supplied with the radio, how did you secure it in the dash?Not this week, but a few weeks ago I got around to getting some tunes into my fj40. My radio only worked intermittently and the single speaker that is nearly impossible to get to in my truck (due to an aftermarket A/C unit installed) sounded like crap, couldn't even understand voices on the news.
I read the various threads here and I was thinking of going the route of rebuilding my factory radio into a bluetooth receiver to keep the original look on the dash. I investigated the retrofitters and electronics for sale for modding the factory radio. That seemed overly expensive for what you get and I decided I was going to head down the path of taking a spare Raspberry Pi and making it a media server and hiding it in the radio carcass and installing an amp somewhere.
I already decided I was going to buy some outdoor speakers and mount them to the roll cage uprights in the back as user fj718 had done in this thread: stereo speakers in a FJ40. Thanks for the idea fj718, works great!
While buying the speakers I happened upon a Pioneer radio that didn't look too flashy, most of them look stupid, IMO, with all their multi-color flashing lights and star-trek style face plates. Just looks out of place in the FJ40. This one is fairly plain (as they go) and you can set the light color to match your dash. So, I took the easy way out and bought the Pioneer, some Polk Atrium 5s and wired it up. It sounds pretty good considering the acoustics of an FJ40 to begin with, and the fact that my cell phone speaker sounds better than what I had! It is fairly subdued especially when off so I don't mind it.
I had to ditch the housing that Pioneer supplies that one is suppose to mount in the hole in the dash and then slide the unit into because it is 1/8" too large in both dimensions. But the radio unit itself fits perfectly in the hole with no trim pieces around it and one can easily remove the face plate to thwart thieves if need be. It is the MVHX560BT if anyone cares.
Mocked up where my PTO winch is going to sit, it's off a 60 series so I had to make a few changes.
Just need to get a piece of angle iron for the front, anybody know the correct thickness and dimensions or I will just make do
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Just need to get a piece of angle iron for the front, anybody know the correct thickness and dimensions or I will just make do
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