What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week? (14 Viewers)

[SouthBostonFJ40]

Starting pulling the gas tank to get her back on the road and found this hiding behind the cover plate, not a good sign.

Should come with every cruiser.

 

[Nik]

Put the new grill on to replace the one that was gone before we got it. New stainless bolts and screws for most everything along with new mirrors. Slowly but surely.

 

[DSRTRDR]

Should come with every cruiser.

my 40 is actually the best stress reliever I have ever had

 

[roadstr6]

Installed a new 6 gang fuse box and a new headlight switch to keep my headlight fuse from getting blistering hot and melting out the solder under the caps. Cool as a cucumber now!

 

[Volcanic Iceberg]

Installed new window felts, Rubber, and sweeps on doors. No more rattling windows.

 

[camcruiser13]

went to the mountains to retrieve a friend and ended up helping 3 more, I knew I should've brought my credit card reader, damn

what you don't see is how steep it is, im tied to a tree in the rear, and its slick and muddy as hell. ih8mud

 

[Chamba]

I'm trying to get my head around this one Josh...

I prefer snow to heat: Australia has oodles of the latter but precious little of the former. Here in Santa Fe it has gotten over 100° once in all recorded history (37.8° French); it was a horrible day, but bearable because we insulate our houses. In Adelaide, 100° was considered a cool day and the houses get nearly as hot as no-one insulates; the single pane glass radiates heat and the THREE massive air cons we had in our 1,000 sq ft house could just barely keep the interior livable.... seven years in Australia and I never, ever got used to the incessant heat, flies and cameras.

I'd never had a house with air con before I lived in Australia and I hope I never have to again; that's all I meant Tom (though really it amounts to being bored $hitless at work with this project and having my smart phone too close at hand).

As for winters in Adelaide: they make beautiful summers. I hope I only ever visit family there during the "winter" and leave the furnace season, er, "summer" to the locals.

Now New Zealand is another story: I love South Island weather

 

[lostmarbles]

I prefer snow to heat: Australia has oodles of the latter but precious little of the former. Here in Santa Fe it has gotten over 100° once in all recorded history (37.8° French); it was a horrible day, but bearable because we insulate our houses. In Adelaide, 100° was considered a cool day and the houses get nearly as hot as no-one insulates; the single pane glass radiates heat and the THREE massive air cons we had in our 1,000 sq ft house could just barely keep the interior livable.... seven years in Australia and I never, ever got used to the incessant heat, flies and cameras.

I'd never had a house with air con before I lived in Australia and I hope I never have to again; that's all I meant Tom (though really it amounts to being bored $hitless at work with this project and having my smart phone too close at hand).

As for winters in Adelaide: they make beautiful summers. I hope I only ever visit family there during the "winter" and leave the furnace season, er, "summer" to the locals.

Now New Zealand is another story: I love South Island weather

If we could barter some of our cold/rain for their heat/dry we'd both be better off.

But I loved all of the 4 or 5 years I spent over there in Oz. - Even working outside in 40 degree heat dragging my oxyacetylene gas set through the sand on a new building site in Perth.

I worked in refrigeration/airconditioning and they know how to serve cold beer over there. Not only the beer is kept at no more than +1/2 oC but the glasses are chilled to that temperature too.

With it that cold (and the air to 40o+), beer never tastes better anywhere in the world!!

I can't wait to go back... (But not to work. Rather to be one of those wandering elderly grey nomads fishing for barramundi, drinking ice-cold beer, exploring abandoned mines, gold prospecting, chatting with other nomads, etc etc.- and exploring tracks in my 1979 sky blue BJ40 and sleeeping under the stars of course... )

 

[Chamba]

'Cold' is the only positive thing I can say about Aussie beer.

Come to America and I'll shout you a pint or three of our micro brew-heaven in a pint glass. After that I'll take you fly fishing in Colorado in between wheeling to old mining ghost towns in the San Juans and Rockies. That's what I hope to do this week to my Cruiser (to get back on topic)

 

[brian]

After that I'll take you fly fishing in Colorado in between wheeling to old mining ghost towns in the San Juans and Rockies.

when can i come out?

 

[Chamba]

when can i come out?

We do it every year. Maybe I should put together a Mud ghost town trip....Hmmm.

 

[brian]

We do it every year. Maybe I should put together a Mud ghost town trip....Hmmm.

work takes me around the east coast a good bit, but have not been any more west than dallas in the south and central wisc in the north.
the southwest is pretty high on the bucket list.

 

[Chamba]

work takes me around the east coast a good bit, but have not been any more west than dallas in the south and central wisc in the north.
the southwest is pretty high on the bucket list.

Heaven-on-earth, especially in winter. Santa Fe has fantastic wheeling at our doorstep, world-class restaurants, hot springs, a fantastic ski area 25 minutes away, wilderness, the opera, theatre and Colorado just a couple hours away. We're at 7,300' elevation so even though we're pretty far South we don't suffer from the heat that others in our latitude do.

Lebanon is nice too though; I love Amish country. I was based in Dubois many years ago and spent several summers in Woodward, Pa. At the BMX camp there when I was young.

 

[brian]

Woodward, Pa. At the BMX camp there when I was young.

i rode as well.

seeing the continental divide is one item on the list.
crossing it by motorcar is another.

 

[74HogGuy]

Stuck on some old emblems so people will know its not a jeep. Also started stripping years of paint off of a tailgate I picked up from a mud member last weekend. Can't wait to get it mounted on.

 

[hecrod]

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Added some new storage to the 40... using these hooks from Springtail Solutions. And a couple of large backpacks. The backpacks have "waist tie-ups" that I looped around the front of the seats...going right into the seam. You can't see the straps!

One is already full with recovery tools and cleaning equipment... the other with miscellaneous "stuff"...works great!


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[Biscuit]

Started separating the new to me H42 and one piece transfer case. Was able to get the cases separated about an inch and a half then they wouldn't budge. I'm going to have to rig up some sort of puller tomorrow.

 

[chappohj47]

I wanted to take it down to just the frame but it Has not stoped raining all week

 

[Varty Yo]

All i did was think about it sitting in storage where its been for 4 year

 

[cruiserjunkie]

All i did was think about it sitting in storage where its been for 4 year

Thats a start