Thread: BJ73 Landcruiser

Originally Posted by gimp

I never noticed it smoking until I had the IP seal done, since then it's pretty bad - in both warm and cold weather. I've changed fuel and air filters, and to check if it was due to restriction with the silicon intake hosing I pulled the intake piping and ran it with just an open throttle body, same result. Valve clearances were the only other thing I could think of to check myself before taking it to someone to look at the injectors. I did notice that the idle is higher since the seal was done, so possibly the fuel was turned up? I'm getting noticeably worse economy than previously too

It was probably turned up to compensate for sucking air threw the seal, back it off a tiny tiny bit at a time until you just get a light haze.

Hey what do you know, playing with the fuel screw seems to have fixed it mostly. I guess Miles Toyota turned it up to compensate for the rough idle from the leaking fuel filter primer when I had the IP leak fixed. It still had the factory wire seal on the adjustment screw so I figured it hadn't been touched but backing off a quarter turn significantly reduced smoke with no difference in drivability

That's good gimp,

Now you can tune your throttle feel/power/fuel economy to your own liking.

Don't you just hate that you think your doing the old girl a favour and she consumes more

Originally Posted by Sideshow

Don't you just hate that you think your doing the old girl a favour and she consumes more

Ha sounds like my wife.

Originally Posted by Martin358

Ha sounds like my wife.

Brave man there

my fuel economy seems to be back to normal with no noticeable smoke under load now.

I went for a drive yesterday, to try shoot a deer. Couldn't walk very far past where I drove to as the river was extremely flooded. Saw an 8 point stag. Didn't shoot it. Noticed a bit of a clunk in the suspension though on the way home.



Oh I guess that's not meant to look like that



Who needs sway bars anyway?



Also got around to pulling off the PTO drive. Before:



Hey I can see inside my transfer case (and it looks like it's about 1.5 litres low on oil, whoops)




After. Shiny. Better not leak. Probably need to get some RTV on the gasket at some point


The problem with removing the PTO drive was that I had a massive gaping hole in my transmission tunnel afterwards


So I got stuck into some CAD. Only scrap sheetmetal I had lying around was a fucked front panel from the Corolla. Perfect, it's supposed to be automotive parts and it's even Toyota OEM


A squirt of primer, some precisely drilled holes and a bit of vacuum tube as a seal later, almost looks good enough to be hidden under the carpet forever



Anyone want to buy a lightly used PTO winch setup? It works

Since this is a hunting forum, here is the 8 point stag

speaking of Corolla panels, I put it back together too

Originally Posted by gimp

speaking of Corolla panels, I put it back together too

Ominous signs. A family car.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Ominous signs. A family car.

2 door, and I ripped out the back seats...

Originally Posted by gimp

2 door, and I ripped out the back seats...

That's to fit the dog in eh...

Originally Posted by Wildman

That's to fit the dog in eh...

And still room for the bassinet