What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week? (19 Viewers)

[Ackcruisers]

Finally got time to plug away at the yellow 40. After rear drums rebuilt and all new brake lines on her I put her rear shoes on.
tackled some of the engine today with installing the desmogged carb from city racer. Attached all the carb linkages. Installed newly powder coated breather.
Big thanks to my good friend @swamp-thing for letting me keep his 40 at the house as a template for what goes wher

Cleaned up and painted the axles to get them ready to install new knuckle rebuild components and then attach to the frame.

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Came out great. What paint did you choose?

 

[macdaddy59]

I used Tamco underhood black which is a satin black for the top coat and their chassis black epoxy for the primer coat.

 

[Idaho Savage]

Took my oldest camping outside of town for a quick overnight. She absolutely loves Mr. Myagi and we had a blast cruising FS roads.

 

[Godwin]

New stock bumper to go on the '73. It's going to look much better than the redneck C-channel that's on there now. Still available from Toyota and just a little over $200.

 

[macdaddy59]

I don't know I kinda like the C channel myself

 

[Skreddy]

Yesterday I took my 71 restoration for its first real drive. Found a few small issues I was able to fix easily today; blinkers weren’t working but it was an unplugged wire from switch, fuel sending unit wasn’t working but was just gunned up and stuck empty, backup light switch was sticking but I must have a wizard because it seems to have corrected itself. Little more tuning and shakedown runs and I’ll be ready to list it for sale and on the hunt for one to keep!…. Probably….

 

[Godwin]

I don't know I kinda like the C channel myself

It's yours if you want it.

 

[Chuckha62]

More progress on my '66 45LV.

Door Panels (I had to make 'em from scratch). It worked out.

Upholsterer called me yesterday and said, come get 'em. Yee haw!

...and installed:

Next up, carpet!

 

[1911]

More progress on my '66 45LV.

Door Panels (I had to make 'em from scratch). It worked out.

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Upholsterer called me yesterday and said, come get 'em. Yee haw!

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...and installed:
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Next up, carpet!

Those turned out nice!

 

[Skreddy]

That’s a great color combo! But, I may be biased toward spring green.

 

[Skreddy]

It’s running great! Putting more miles on it today and figured I should stop by my local dealer since I got so many parts from them.

 

[firemanj92]

More progress on my '66 45LV.

Door Panels (I had to make 'em from scratch). It worked out.

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Upholsterer called me yesterday and said, come get 'em. Yee haw!

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...and installed:
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Next up, carpet!

Looks great, get some of those Schwinn HG's in there too!

 

[Chuckha62]

Looks great, get some of those Schwinn HG's in there too!

I've been known to do that. Two fit standing up.

 

[cims1970fj40]

Replace my radiator fan clutch, flushed and refilled the radiator to fix a slight overheating problem. Drove 75 miles in stop and go Houston traffic to test it. All fixed up now.View attachment 2740268View attachment 2740269

Nice 40! Where did you get the rear swing out carrier from?

 

[Green Bean]

Yesterday I took my 71 restoration for its first real drive. Found a few small issues I was able to fix easily today; blinkers weren’t working but it was an unplugged wire from switch, fuel sending unit wasn’t working but was just gunned up and stuck empty, backup light switch was sticking but I must have a wizard because it seems to have corrected itself. Little more tuning and shakedown runs and I’ll be ready to list it for sale and on the hunt for one to keep!…. Probably….View attachment 2743316

We just purchased the same OEM front bumper and gusset plates. Curious what bolts you used to mount. Is it correct that the mounting is only on the top even thought there are holes on the bottom?
Thanks!

 

[Skreddy]

I used stainless carriage bolts on top and yellow zinc from overland metric (extras I had) on bottom.

 

[Green Bean]

I used stainless carriage bolts on top and yellow zinc from overland metric (extras I had) on bottom.View attachment 2745045

Thank you for the photo! I think we're in trouble. It looks like the P.O. may have cut off (shortened) the frame. We don't have the bottom mounting bracket. We m

ay have to fabricate something???

 

[rossl]

It doesn't look like they shortened the frame, but rather they shortened the bumper brackets and then welded the channel straight to that. These hold the bumper out from the frame by a couple inches.

So these look like they are shortened (they fit under the tow hooks):

And these have also probably been modified:

 

[Green Bean]

It doesn't look like they shortened the frame, but rather they shortened the bumper brackets and then welded the channel straight to that. These hold the bumper out from the frame by a couple inches.

So these look like they are shortened (they fit under the tow hooks):

And these have also probably been modified:

Thanks. I have new upper gusset plates that I purchased from Toyota when I bought the bumper but I don't have the lower brackets. Do you have a part number or know where I can get a pair?
Appreciate very much all of the great help that this forum provides.

 

[KingAir Driver]

Installed the fj40dash.com @fjgoober, upper dash pad tonight. New OEM sleeves and screws as well.