What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week? (54 Viewers)

[Skreddy]

Did a dry and wet compression test today. To see where I’m at and if I want to pour abrasives into my combustion chamber walls to seat rings. at 5800 in elevation. How do these numbers look to everyone?

Hands covered in oil typing these out!

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I’ve commented on your posts before and not trying to be rude, but it never sinks in. You need to take this to someone who knows what they are doing. You may not even have a problem and could be chasing snake oil cures. People here give you specifics to check and report back but then you have buddies or coworkers who are car guys tell you something else, but that can’t explain compression tests; supposed Cruiserhead Experts that can’t help distinguish the difference in vacuum leaks and exhaust leaks.

You’ve spent a ton of time and money rebuilding one engine and you are on the path of repetition. Lots of people here have given you advice but it’s never taken……. There’s a reason people have stopped answering your questions in the 60 section so you started asking them in the 40 section.

In short, again, if your rings aren’t seated: they’s aint’s goin seat.

 

[mdsims]

This was a one owner truck I purchased here in Bogotá. I have all the original documents from its importation from Japan. Additionally I have a full folder of service records, owners manual, tools etc. Original set of keys were also provided.

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That’s awesome history to have. No offense intended, the font on your vin plate just looked odd to me. None of my cruisers have had that font. I also have a 1982 Colombian FJ43.

 

[MAR FJ40]

Re-assembly underway. I really need to be focusing on getting it running, but all these shiny restored and new parts have me distracted. I did manage to mount the brake booster/master cylinder and clutch master to the firewall so there's that. Probably have to unbolt them to get out of the way soon but it looks so much better there than in the box.

 

[knuckle47]

@bernardbar3 looks like one of the priciest Land Cruisers I have ever seen ! What does that $624,000 translate into?

I often think about how many vehicles are in the world stacking pages and pages of documents sitting in files across world governments and what it may take to locate a set of papers maybe 25 yrs old….could they actually do it? I know in NJ, they have little to do but watch whether or not my registered 1957 Ford has insurance. Which it does but under the threat of license suspension, I had to kill an entire morning to show someone a piece of paper THEY HAVE on file……SOMEWHERE…

 

[pb4ugo]

Cold Results from 4 months ago. Swapped rocker assembly since then as well. Things look better (more consistent) than they did I think. Used a different Oreillys gauge, perhaps lowering numbers. Valves have been adjusted before all tests. View attachment 3971140

You can throw those test results away. A cold test is pointless and you used a different gauge. In all your tests compression increases significantly during the wet test. This by definition indicates the rings are not seating or are worn.

 

[MatthewMcD]

Cold Results from 4 months ago. Swapped rocker assembly since then as well. Things look better (more consistent) than they did I think. Used a different Oreillys gauge, perhaps lowering numbers. Valves have been adjusted before all tests. View attachment 3971140

Did you hold your throttle open when you did the tests?

 

[bernardbar3]

@bernardbar3 looks like one of the priciest Land Cruisers I have ever seen ! What does that $642,000 translate into?

I often think about how many vehicles are in the world stacking pages and pages of documents sitting in files across world governments and what it may take to locate a set of papers maybe 25 yrs old….could they actually do it? I know in NJ, they have little to do but watch whether or not my registered 1957 Ford has insurance. Which it does but under the threat of license suspension, I had to kill an entire morning to show someone a piece of paper THEY HAVE on file……SOMEWHERE…

$642,000 translates to $16,894 US Dollars at today's exchange rate of Colombian Peso's. Good question. Thanks.

Also when I give the DMV anything, I give them a good copy and tell them the dog ate my original, lol.

 

[bernardbar3]

That’s awesome history to have. No offense intended, the font on your vin plate just looked odd to me. None of my cruisers have had that font. I also have a 1982 Colombian FJ43.

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No offense taken Sir. Thanks for sharing, Cheers!

 

[bernardbar3]

Re-assembly underway. I really need to be focusing on getting it running, but all these shiny restored and new parts have me distracted. I did manage to mount the brake booster/master cylinder and clutch master to the firewall so there's that. Probably have to unbolt them to get out of the way soon but it looks so much better there than in the box.


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Incredible! Looks amazing.

 

[MAR FJ40]

Incredible! Looks amazing.

Thank you. This has been a labor of love.

 

[Will615]

Started on my front axle rebuild. I was a little weary of this job, but tear down went very smoothly and quicker than I expected. I knew the knuckles were loose and leaky, but when I got into it I found some PO had not used the lock washers on the hub nuts and the nuts were completely loose and able to just spin on the threads. After I get things cleaned up more and get a centering tool I’ll start reassembling with later 40 series disc knuckles.

 

[Beehanger]

Did you hold your throttle open when you did the tests?

Yes I did.

 

[kenjera]

l rewired the break at the rear wiring connector, whilst killing time waiting for a delivery l fitted the new tail lights...l've tried loading the before/after video of the exhaust sound sadly no joy..but there's no significant difference but its 'sound' front to back now... next up l've 3 days of dry, no to little wind, relatively hot days 19-28 degrees to do the raptor in the tub...then l'll surprise you (& probably myself if it works out as l hope) with the next 'notion' l'm going to take on....hint it'll be historically rustic...
In the meantime l'm going to look at the kitchen, then chill....its friday night....

 

[65swb45]

Started the next phase of work on the karma cruiser, resealing the cowl and hardtop. I had noticed a few weeks ago when I was under the dash replacing the turn signals that there were a couple of rust stains high up the firewall under the cowl. Taking a hard look at the seam, it was obvious that it was no weathertight

 

[65swb45]

Being familiar with doing tile work, I opted to use a grout saw to take out the old seam sealer. HF had one with a saw blade that looked interesting…for $3!…so I bought it. Made a few passes with it for depth, then switched to a matte knife.’20 minutes later, the seam was clear.

A tube of beige seam sealer from Eastwood is due shortly.