What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week? (47 Viewers)

[skidplate]

Getting ready for my son's "Mancation" or as I call it, "Bro fest", which is our annual camping, wheeling, deer scouting, cigar smoking, eat like kings, and all around get outta' town for a few days, story tellin' trip. The Cruiser is tuned , serviced, inspected, etc. so I painted the shocks because I was bored.

 

[gator25]

Found the wire that was draining the battery, writing down parts to order, ordering parts, waiting on parts, from Onur @beno and made a loooong to do list. Will be another big project. Thanks Onur.

 

[Vossie]

picked these up yesterday...

now i have full doors for when its too cold for half doors wife is happy about that.

she was even happier with the price, both for $350.

 

[Vossie]

danke @Dagha Boy

 

[gator25]

Nice!

 

[tmarx]

Very !

 

[Keak]

when on a cruiser at marin headlands...

 

[tls3601]

Nice pic from the Bay area, what year is your rig? Like the color............

 

[65swb45]

Nice pic from the Bay area, what year is your rig? Like the color............

All the telltale signs are there Tom; its a '73.

 

[Keak]

It's a 74'

 

[tls3601]

@65swb45 Good point Mark..............you the man! BTW the parts arrived......any idea what color the heater pipe was originally??? Would love to know what you found on the carb too....................................Thanks!

 

[65swb45]

It's a 74'

Interesting.

The factory buckets tell me it's not older than a '73.
The overhead wiper motors say it's not newer than '74
The clincher for me is that a '74 would have had the tri-color taillights. What gives there?

It's more fun guessing bra sizes!

 

[65swb45]

@65swb45 Good point Mark..............you the man! BTW the parts arrived......any idea what color the heater pipe was originally??? Would love to know what you found on the carb too....................................Thanks!

Tom

I've seen the pipes two ways. The brass ones were painted black; thevsteel ones were yellow zinc.

I had plans to tear into the carb, but two paying carb jobs showed up right after, so the investigation will have to wait.

 

[tls3601]

Cool and thx again Mark.

 

[GHalll]

It's a 74'

It's got a heck of a fiberglass tilting front end so it looks... (edit) Hinge mounts on the bottom of the bib in second photo confirm/no gap between hood and bib..

 

[TwelveGravity]

Sag Steering nearly completed.




I also received a few pictures from a fellow Cruiserhead out of state on his current build.
I sold him the seats (in much worse condition) a little while back. He has since restored and installed.
Its nice to see what things have become and how you can help other enthusiasts move their projects along.

 

[65swb45]

Sag Steering nearly completed.
Its nice to see what things have become and how you can help other enthusiasts move their projects along.

Agreed. All my cruisers have bits on them I've gotten from other guys on the forum. The seats in Ruftoys are from @Wilson , the exhaust is from @Mace , the rear springs from @Cruiserdrew. The trans in my blue 45 is from @ROOSTER , the seats from @poorboypulling. The motor in the karma cruiser is from @FJ45Dude. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

It's a two-way street.

 

[Vossie]

Put the roof on, now just waiting for hinges and pins to put new doors on.

also dropped her off at the auto sparky to get the lights and other stuff done. so close now i can taste it

 

[blazer]

Made up a front winch bar.
Finished my rear tyre rack also. Just need to add some tubing to the front then off to the powder coaters.
Also one of the pup on a recent trip.

 

[steffan]

Got one of the quarter made up (16g) and tacked on