What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week? (47 Viewers)
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Working on a custom roll cage - I have been wanting to start a build thread for this project from the start..... Maybe some day I will have the time!!!!
thebigredrocker
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I started in on assembling a Family Cage kit by Metal Tech. This stage of my build sure beats the scraping old gewey undercoating stage. Still a ways to go on the cage but I am pleased to have the big stuff tacked up.
Bear Lake Cruiser
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Interested to detailed pics when finished. Particularly front bars around dash to floor. I have a full cage in mine and curious where it came from
I only ordered and paid for a tie rod end set but they arrived via Toyota Japan with accompanying rods. I'll take it!
I pulled the exhaust manifold I had a leak and one stud was striped. After taking it off it appears that the intake was leaking as well. I took it to a machine shop and they trud it up. Now I am looking for Fel Pro gaskets.I have the helicoil kit for the stripes stud.
Living the dream on the most ordinary day. No fancy mods required. Just 2F motor and Aisin carb makes my day!
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I pulled the exhaust manifold I had a leak and one stud was striped. After taking it off it appears that the intake was leaking as well. I took it to a machine shop and they trud it up. Now I am looking for Fel Pro gaskets.I have the helicoil kit for the stripes stud.
Car dude, make sure your manifolds are spot faced. I hope your machinists did it for you when he had them. I had mine done this winter and had to go to three different machine shops before I found one that had a clue what I was talking about.
Spot facing the bolt holes allows for equal thickness of the cast steel exhaust and the aluminum intake from the resurfaced deck that mounts against the head. When this extra step of machining takes places it allows for equal clamping pressure of the bolt head to the steel/aluminum against the head.
I would not got through the hassle of reassembly without having had this done to my manifolds. No matter how good the gasket is, it's not going to seal for the long term.
thebigredrocker
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Made more progress on my cage. Been thinking about bolting the frame tie plates that bolt just under the floor boards to the inside plates, then use a ratchet strap from my ceiling anchors to pull up on the plates, then weld the support pipes. Wouldn't that take some bounce out of the floorboards with more weigh on the frame ties.
Thanks oldschool when he milled them he did not separate the two manifolds. So a equal a amount of metal was removed from both manifols.when I walked in his shop the first thing he said was O no not one of those things he said sometimes they are so warped they can't be saved .He has rebulit a fair share of landcruiser engines.
Just looking out for our fellow cruiser heads. Glad you got a good machinist to do your work.
@Nothinghead -- thanks for the pics of your new muffler. I need to swap out the glasspack at some point as well. Anyway, hope you like your new one
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As to what I've done this week, I've diagnosed an issue with the starter solenoid. A while back I went out to fire up the ol F engine, but nothing happened with the turn of the key (also no audible 'click'). Initially I thought it might be a bad ground/faulty wiring, as so often is the case. Even after cleaning, still nothing happened with the key turn. At that point I realized that a bad solenoid was most likely the issue. In order to check, I disconnected the battery and pulled out the heavy duty jumper cables, jumping directly from the terminals to the starter/starter solenoid (also to see if it was an issue with the ignition). Nothing happened when jumping to the solenoid, but when the battery was connected to the starter itself, the starter immediately spun (of course, it did not engage without the solenoid doing its job). I have therefore concluded that the solenoid was causing the issue. Time to pull the starter and solenoid and take them down to NAPA to see what can be done, whether it's a new solenoid, the old one being rewound, or a whole new starter and solenoid together
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.As to what I've done this week, I've diagnosed an issue with the starter solenoid. A while back I went out to fire up the ol F engine, but nothing happened with the turn of the key (also no audible 'click'). Initially I thought it might be a bad ground/faulty wiring, as so often is the case. Even after cleaning, still nothing happened with the key turn. At that point I realized that a bad solenoid was most likely the issue. In order to check, I disconnected the battery and pulled out the heavy duty jumper cables, jumping directly from the terminals to the starter/starter solenoid (also to see if it was an issue with the ignition). Nothing happened when jumping to the solenoid, but when the battery was connected to the starter itself, the starter immediately spun (of course, it did not engage without the solenoid doing its job). I have therefore concluded that the solenoid was causing the issue. Time to pull the starter and solenoid and take them down to NAPA to see what can be done, whether it's a new solenoid, the old one being rewound, or a whole new starter and solenoid together
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Finally got her out of the garage after giving her a new motor.
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Uncovered the motor to show it to a fellow cruiser enthusiast.."what's under the tarp" ??
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Beauty like your engine simply doesn't deserve to be covered... Have you considered a showing? Maybe a gallery in Green River first... And then...
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radiator fluid flush & change. Hoping to get it inspected this week.
not sure it will pass
not sure it will pass
Found rust in the floor pans of my mates bj45
Added it to the, "to weld" list....
Added it to the, "to weld" list....
