What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week? (38 Viewers)

[61twpw]

Winter solace.

 

[dad4x4]

Took it for a ride and a fill up.

 

[cruiserboy14]

New exhaust.

 

[Jakespa]

Never been more excited to this return address

 

[letterman52]

Painted the bezel to match the beast.

 

[unpob]

Poured bit of fuel in carb, cranked it, started right up. Went to check for puffs of blue smoke, waited, waited...no smoke. Does not make any sense!

Checked for leaks at thermostat housing, nothing there. Had replaced thermostat and all gaskets. Went back to look for blue smoke, nothing nothing. Checked dashboard, holy chickens, my water gauge was working!

i stood back amazed

1976 fj55

 

[Rankle40]

Modified an oem 78 and below stepboard to adopt the indentation found on the later model 40 series, painted and installed. Also mounted new tire and wheel combo to the tune of 235/85 R16 size on oem 16x6 Toyota Rims.

Additionally, there is an unquantifiable satisfaction achieved by using the proper JIS mounting hardware that all "J-Tins" deserve.

 

[Shredderdunde]

Got her back on the road after a few months off... Holly Sniper EFI system kicks ass!
Still have a tick from a slightly bent pushrod, going to take care of that next weekend. Power is the best it's been.
If your thinking efi, get a sniper...
Artsy pic for fun...
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[Shredderdunde]

Got her back on the road after a few months off... Holly Sniper EFI system kicks ass!
Still have a tick from a slightly bent pushrod, going to take care of that next weekend. Power is the best it's been.
If your thinking efi, get a sniper...
Artsy pic for fun...
View attachment 1924295

How is the Holly working for you now?

 

[Pierps]

Wet sanded and did a first pass with the buffer. Still more to do, but I'll save the rest until full assembly. Really nice to be turning the corner to assembly!

 

[Jdc1]

Wet sanded and did a first pass with the buffer. Still more to do, but I'll save the rest until full assembly. Really nice to be turning the corner to assembly!

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Great color.

 

[1911]

Installed the Scat ProCar 90 seats that my wife gave me for Christmas. Seats are nice; the mounting brackets were horrible, no two alike, had to saw them up and the seat mounting brackets on the provided sliders to get them to work.

These four mounting brackets are supposed to be identical:

 

[-MaTTi-]

Where did you get them?

I prefer awl_TEQ: Awl_TEQ Metal Parts etc.

 

[thecrazygreek]

I prefer awl_TEQ: Awl_TEQ Metal Parts etc.

I just read that Awl_TEQ is shutting down his business for a while and is currently just selling what he has in stock.
Said he may fire back up at some point, but thats a ways off.

If you go the the last page of the link posted, you can read what he had to say.

Just an FYI...

How is the Holly working for you now?

I sold that rig a few months back. There is a great thread on it here... Builds - 1978 FJ40 Mustard Yellow - almost perfect thread.

And I just got done taking my first data-log with my Holley Sniper 2300 on my Olive 78 . Going to try to learn all about it, and fine tuning...

 

[AndersN]

The cooling system flush that i started two weeks ago snowballed into new water pump, radiator, hoses, clamps, thermostat, power steering pump, belts and a remflex gasket. Best part was no leaks after Idling for an hour (followed by a test drive) and no left over bolts during clean up.

 

[letterman52]

Did some stuff.

 

[Catching Neutral]

Drove it to work Friday and discovered the drivers side defrost wasn’t working, the defrost tube was missing, found the defrost tube in the box of spare parts, cleaned it up and installed. Replaced a broken left side window latch after sanding, priming and shooting the metal part black. Started polishing the top. Surf City Garage products. Beyond clay, Nano Seal, and Nano Gloss. Will post pictures tomorrow. Got compression numbers as a baseline since the rig is new to me.
140, 138, 145, 148, 140, 155. Happy to have these things behind me. Still working on front door weather stripping. I have done this once before on another 40. Didn’t remember it being this difficult. I’ll be using a lot of adhesive remover to clean up when finished. Hope to finish tomorrow. Also on the list for tomorrow is front break pads. This might be wishful thinking.

 

[JohnnyC]

Replaced my taillight that I had replaced 5 years ago

Builds - Previously known as the 'One Week Resto' now Pathetically keeping it alive... 500k

Was excited for an update... glad you're still around. Praying 2019 brings relief of the family health issues bro.

forum.ih8mud.com

 

[spotcruiser]

Wow.

Replaced my taillight that I had replaced 5 years ago

Builds - Previously known as the 'One Week Resto' now Pathetically keeping it alive... 500k

Was excited for an update... glad you're still around. Praying 2019 brings relief of the family health issues bro.

forum.ih8mud.com

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[JohnnyC]

@spotcruiser

Hay ... waz up... when u coming back to NY lol

Your missing out on all this fun