What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week? (59 Viewers)

[MaltbyPenn]

We had a little BBQ and Beer with our families. Just to enjoy a few of our restorations/inventory and take a break from the garages for a day. Family time is far more important than any bolt, stitch or buff!

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This is spot I'd love to hang out at!! That's beautiful.

 

[S.CarolinaFZJ80]

Found an odd leak under to 40, traced it back to the rear heater core.



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Looks like you need a bigger piece of cardboard.

 

[Brizzman]

Found out my master cylinder is shot.

 

[Sheck44]

Got her home from the tuning/dyno shop just in time to put her away for winter .... tears
NAASTY weather on the way .... $%^%^$##!!

IMG_9930 by Steve Heck, on Flickr

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

Looks like you need a bigger piece of cardboard.

I usually don't need any cardboard, except under the t-case!

 

[S.CarolinaFZJ80]

I usually don't need any cardboard, except under the t-case!

I wish I could say the same. My parking spot looks like a murder scene

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

I wish I could say the same. My parking spot looks like a murder scene

That's what my diesel looks like, maybe a few quarts of old dirty oil that puddles up under the thing.

 

[imyahucklbrry]

I wish I could say the same. My parking spot looks like a murder scene

That’s when you do a custom drip pad like mine!

 

[Dizzy]

I usually don't need any cardboard, except under the t-case!

Are you running the Gano coolant filter? Not that it is related.

Did you have anything other than distilled for flushing,that might still be in circulation?

I soldered my radiator before, but I don't know about the heater core.

 

[thecrazygreek]

Added a set of aftermarket stainless steel wiper motors.
Direct bolt in! They actually park! Look great!
My originals never parked, and were over 50 years old. I'm happy

 

[letterman52]

Added a set of aftermarket stainless steel wiper motors.
Direct bolt in! They actually park! Look great!
My originals never parked, and were over 50 years old. I'm happy

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When you say “park” it means?

 

[thecrazygreek]

When you say “park” it means?

When you turn off the wipers, they continue until the end of their sweep and stop or "park".

My originals would just stop wherever you turned off the switch.

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

Are you running the Gano coolant filter? Not that it is related.

Did you have anything other than distilled for flushing,that might still be in circulation?

I soldered my radiator before, but I don't know about the heater core.

Actually I do have a Gano filter installed in my cooling system, the coolant looks pretty clean when it’s flowing, and it’s only distilled water and antifreeze.

I have noticed a small weep from the rear core for a while, nothing worth worrying about, until now.

I haven’t ran my 40 in a week or more.
Hopefully this weekend I can crawl back there and see what I can do.

 

[JohnBoy]

Talking about needing a big piece of cardboard under your rig to soak up oil and such.

I took a picture of my rig and threw the photograph on the newspaper sitting on the kitchen table. I came back an hour later to get some coffee and the newspaper was soaked with gear oil. She leaks alright.

 

[PuKE]

Picked up the original gas tank from Macs Radiators here in Salem yesterday. They hot tanked it, welded up all the pin holes, sealed it, pressure tested it, then epoxy primed it. One thing they did which I wasn't expecting was weld three giant patches on the top side of the tank. Oh well, its its mostly under the seat... 312 bucks for the service, which is what I expected . Inside of the tank is mint!
Anyhoo, got the tank into paint today along with the tire carrier.

Oh, and I was able to rescue the original fuel sender. Don't know if it will work, but glad a was able to fix it.

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Dang!
I searched all over SoCal for a shop to pressure test and reseal my gas tank.
Nobody would touch it....Ended up doing it myself, with limited supplies and input from fellow mud members.

 

[tls3601]

@PuKE yep
I have learned to do many things myself. Not much of a work ethic here in Arizona! The land of manana in more ways than one!!

 

[Sheck44]

Added a set of aftermarket stainless steel wiper motors.
Direct bolt in! They actually park! Look great!
My originals never parked, and were over 50 years old. I'm happy

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Mr Crazygreek ... point me in the direction to get a set of these ?? I have black ones for the 73, but those will be perfect for my 66 !
Thank you
Steve

 

[thecrazygreek]

Mr Crazygreek ... point me in the direction to get a set of these ?? I have black ones for the 73, but those will be perfect for my 66 !
Thank you
Steve

From Ebay.. Here is the link.. And only 83 bucks!!

The only thing that prob needs to change are the wiper blades. They are only 11 inches long, and stock was 13 inches.
Stainless Windshield Wiper Motor Kit Street Hot Rod Universal Boat Chevy Jeep | eBay

 

[hooter]

Stripped down my driver FST canvas doors.

Off to the blaster

Thx @jvincig01

 

[letterman52]

Got this engine ready to be pulled out and rebuilt. Then slapped into my 75.