Thread: BJ73 Landcruiser

I thought you'd just tie the kayak to the front door...

I'd get some more lights in there gimp. You should be able to wire in a few new leds onto those joists, will brighten the whole place up.
Much better to work in as well. Looks good though. Have you thought about building a small eve on the front over the door to stop the water ruining your ply doors?

More/better lights and a carport are on the cards.

I was having some starting issues, it would run rough on startup and blow a shitload of white smoke, first step was change the glow plugs, 4x new plugs later and it seems to fire up nicely first crank and idle smoothly. Good.

Had the same with my L200 Gimp but I ended up changing them again eight months down the track as the first lot failed
Brought top of the line and have not looked back. They have been in for two winters now.

I put in Tridon brand plugs. Not sure what the previous ones were but I think 2 of them were stuffed inside 40000 km ish

Year the old buy once cry once.
There's quite a few sites that talk about this. The first I brought where £6.00 each the next £15.60 each

Mine went from 5 to 8 turns to 1 to 2.
That's what I need for an emergency call out!

Originally Posted by berg243

on my old l200 I had to wait till I heard a clunk noise from in the engine bay before cranking the engine made a massive difference for starting and glow plugs didn't crap out not sure what the noise was just started way better less cranking when cold.

That'd be your glow relay clicking off, if you don't wait for that then the plugs might not be fully hot

where have you been getting your genuine toyota parts from? looking for a sender thats discontinued

Originally Posted by Smiddy

where have you been getting your genuine toyota parts from? looking for a sender thats discontinued

https://partsouq.com/

Hey team selling my 70 series cruiser.
If you are interested look at the buy sell forum

My drivers door handle had some broken/rusted Springs so I bought a new $14 Chinese handle



And installed it and over tightened the bolts a bit



And fixed my door lock thingy that kept popping off, in the obvious fashion


And made some engine bay splash guards from 4mm rubber since I had none

Got my injectors rebuilt. Averaged 10.3L per 100km over 1400km around the sounds last week so pretty happy with that.

Noticed a bit of a clunk in the front end though. Jacked it up and pulled a wheel off today and found it's the kingpin bearings. I don't want to know what the passenger side ones look like.. that can wait for another day, what a messy shit of a job.



Lower bearing race


upper bearing race

Better economy than my ‘14 hilux