Restoring a 1986 FJ62 Landcruiser

hey buddy i have a perfect pic but i cannot send it to you through this site i can fax it to you send me a fax number at mr.wrenches@yahoo.com and i will send it ....i can't pull the pic from all data.. i can only print it and i don't have a scanner...you got alot of lines to go through

G'day Tazz4wd,

This is my favourite web site for all things Landcruiser, plenty of helpful folk and lots of information on just about any Landcruiser, anywhere in the world.

www.ih8mud.com

Register for the forums it costs nothing, its great.

Thanks Tobugrynbak,

Have looked there but no luck so far. Will keep trying - they did have a 2F motor. Of course I need the 3F..................

Is there some reason why you think that WE would have that info, but the posters on a truck forum wouldn't?

Hi, Jeanne P.!

It's probably a reasonable conclusion that this is a good forum in which to post the question.

The Landcruiser for years --in all its various forms & incarnations-- was regarded as the creme de la creme of off-road vehicles. Discerning people got one if they could or if they had a use for it. That means of course that the engineering profession probably made up the largest segment of the owner population (I'm just offering a reasonable guess). Generally, the "G" (diesel) model was preferred, since at that time diesel was cheaper than gas; and diesel engines are simpler to diagnose and fix than gasoline engines.

You could expect to get a million miles or more from it before encountering minor problems, usually having to do with hose replacements. Owners used to joke that around 250,000 miles, when ordinary cars were being traded in, the Land Cruiser was just barely broken in.

People used to outfit their Land Cruisers with lights on the bottom so they could see how to lever it upright at night if it keeled over while climbing a boulder trail. My son was quite disappointed about the log that suddenly presented itself through the floorbords after he took his over a mere 6-foot cliff at high speed while tearing through the woods one day. Once I borrowed his to go moose hunting about 1200 miles to the west of the Province away from my home in central Ontario just after he had a new paint job. My own favourite off-road hunting vehicle at the time: a 92 Subaru GL with 4-wheel-drive on-the-fly was in for repairs. While taking a break one day, I scratched the paint by leaning my rifle on the vehicle. I apologized when I returned it, and he laughed and said, "Relax. You just saved me some work."

This is no ordinary vehicle. It's the real thing. The '86 the OP is talking about still has a resale value higher than a 2000 Land Rover. Land Cruisers and the Mitsubishi Pajero were favoured desert police vehicles. Last I heard, Land Cruisers were still being manufactured in Brasil and Chile. If you live anywhere in the Americas, you wouldn't be insane if you bought one and drove it home. But if you do, make sure you get a jack that will work using the spare tire as its base in case you bog down in a bog.

Check out some of the owners' websites about it.

Mark

Thanks Mark, good to see there are still people out there that appreciate the finer things in life

Hi Jeanne,

As Markthehandyman pointed out, these are a legendary vehicle. There are heaps of truck forums with loots of pics - of the outside. Not many good ones of the engines etc.

Tazz4wd, Mate its worth posting the question on the tech forums in ih8mud rather than just searching. There is a thread there with links to on online workshop manuals as well.

As for why I referred Tazz4wd to ih8mud? Well its a site that I have had a wonderful education, on the wonders of 'Cruisers. I have an F/HJ45 myself (an FJ45 with a 6cyl H diesel transplant) which is undergoing refurbishment. As it is a site that deals in all models of Landcruisers rather than a general interest site such as this, I felt that Tazz4wd might get the information he needed there.

I lurk on many forum sites not just for my FHJ but other vehicles that I have to "maintain" and I've learned its horses for courses.

I consider that CR4 is for the democratic dissemination of technical information or at least how to get it. I was just trying to help Tazz4wd to achieve is goal.

Cheers

Pez