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gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

What are you lookin at...
I had basically nothing, then function returned but not complete function. Vacuum system is probably full of brake fluid from my previously chronically leaking clutch master/booster situation, but following the steps in my workshop manual the booster appears to be functioning fine, so I can cross that off. When it stops raining I'll get someone to help me bleed it all and see if that helps

E: Vacuum pump is pulling some vacuum, as diagnosed by pulling a vac hose and putting my thumb over the end. Doesn't feel super strong but I have no frame of reference.

gimpsuitjones fucked around with this message at 05:02 on May 29, 2016

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gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

What are you lookin at...
The Fix


Ferremit
Sep 14, 2007
if I haven't posted about MY LANDCRUISER yet, check my bullbars for kangaroo prints

That would do it. Living in the land of fog it probably wouldnt hurt to bleed the brakes anyway if they havent been done for a year or so.

gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

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Yeah, I want to flush the brakes at some point in the near future.

The problem was vacuum leaking through the busted clutch booster, simply pulled the hose feeding it vacuum and capped the reservoir and the brakes are as good as they've ever been (not amazing).

Atmus
Mar 8, 2002

gimpsuitjones posted:

Glow plugs were replaced not long before I got it, I think it was the very low idle, since it's firing up nicely now? Might replace the plugs anyway I guess since it's cheap enough to do.

If you haven't already fixed the problem, check the glowplug wires as well. I've had them break inside the insulation before. I don't know what kind of control unit Toyota uses, but the Ford (well, Navistar) ones don't go bad so much as they explode.

Fermented Tinal
Aug 25, 2005

by Pragmatica
The control unit varies, from nothing at all, or a little bit of resistive wire that gets red hot, or then there's superglow which uses 6v plugs, etc. That's why I linked that thread on mud.

gimp, if it wasn't for the fact you said adjusting the idle helped significantly, I almost want to tell you to pull the head and take a look at the prechambers. Assuming the plugs are the correct ones for your 3B's setup, I'd almost be inclined to think there's a crack in one of your prechambers (it happens), that seals up once the engine's to temp. Crushers (prolific cruiser mechanic) once showed me a 3B head with all four cracked so badly they were threatening to drop chunks into the cylinders.

gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

What are you lookin at...
It's entirely possible that the precups are cracked since that seems like A Thing with the 3B


She fires up ok now though

https://youtu.be/rxzJCQ9pBj8

gimpsuitjones fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Jun 4, 2016

Fermented Tinal
Aug 25, 2005

by Pragmatica
That sounds like a happy 3B.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
I really need more diesels :(

gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

What are you lookin at...
Everyone should get a Landcruiser! Did 650k's today, no issues, hammered it in the twisty bits and up the hills (there are a lot of both on SH6) and still got 11.8L/100km. Passed 2 other MWB 70 series inside 30 mins which was odd, they're not super common, chopped one going up the Crown Range WOT in third, passed one going the other way. Also saw a rad first gen Surf and a modified Hilux on 37s and like 20 80 series Wagons and an insanely sick XY GT Falcon, none of which I got photos of







gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

What are you lookin at...
It's supposed to be more fun to go fast in a slow car than slow in a fast one. And the cruiser is insanely slow and bouncy and rattly and sloppy and extremely fun when you're flooring it up a twisty hill in third and it feels like you're doing a million miles per hour but really you're just abusing your poor little Diesel engine

Fermented Tinal
Aug 25, 2005

by Pragmatica
Abusing? That sound coming from under the hood is just the engine screaming "MORE! MORE!"

gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

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PARTS (not overnight, not from Japan)

gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

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Spent the morning mucking around doing little bits and pieces.

Moved my license plate bracket


Had ordered new hood bumpers which had arrived so I replaced them.

Old and busted


Doesn't line up properly

New and shiny

Adjusted these also


Lines up nicely. New bumpers didn't actually do poo poo to help it line up but oh well they cost $16 for 4


Fixed the outer door weatherstripping on my passenger door and put in the new window seals. Old and busted


New and actually sealing


Removed the vac reservoir for the clutch booster. So much more room!


Fixed my drivers door lock/diesel cap cylinders, this was easy


Put bash plates back on underneath also, drilled out a broken bolt and tapped the hole to 10x1.5. Ran an m8 tap through all the other bolt holes and ran the bolts through a die nut.

Then discovered my injector pump is leaking

http://youtu.be/bZExeg0_N_M

Other parts are valve cover gasket for when I do my valve clearances, shifter seat bushing and seal, and gasket and cover and bolts for PTO output on the xfer case, but I might keep the PTO winch now, having priced up Warn electric winches

gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

What are you lookin at...
Also mocked up some extensions to the sides of the winch housing with cardboard to get an idea for how I can make a bumper, now I need to decide whether to get someone else to make them or buy a welder etc and do it myself. Bolt on "wings" made of a few bits of plate welded up should work fine, something like so

Queen_Combat
Jan 15, 2011
Yes hmmm just chiming in to say that while I love the thread, locks last a poo poo-ton longer if they're cleaned with a spray solvent, then lubricated with graphite. WD-40 is amazing but tends to form goop with the brass shavings in the lock that just wears it down more quickly.


However with standard Toyota construction "more quickly" can be "wears out in 10 years instead of 20" so really it's no gigantic loss. Carry on.

gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

What are you lookin at...
Thanks, I had the pressing issue of "can't unlock things" at the time & need to get new lock cylinders all around anyhow cos my keys tend to fly out the ignition when I go around left turns

Queen_Combat
Jan 15, 2011
Makes total sense. WD40 does free things up.

Ferremit
Sep 14, 2007
if I haven't posted about MY LANDCRUISER yet, check my bullbars for kangaroo prints

Ah. Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel strikes again. Makes old injector pumps leak.

A diesel injector specialist should be able to just replace the shaft seals, but eventually all of the rubber seals on the pump will start to leak, and unfortunately most of the time when you crack open an old pump they're so worn out that its not worth the effort to just re-seal it without a pump rebuild too. Which of course isnt cheap.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Ferremit posted:

Ah. Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel strikes again. Makes old injector pumps leak.

A diesel injector specialist should be able to just replace the shaft seals, but eventually all of the rubber seals on the pump will start to leak, and unfortunately most of the time when you crack open an old pump they're so worn out that its not worth the effort to just re-seal it without a pump rebuild too. Which of course isnt cheap.

Add two stroke oil to your diesel.

gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

What are you lookin at...
Oddly enough the IP leak seems to have packed up and gone home for the moment which is nice. Did discover a slight p/s leak and coolant leak though, both resolved with tightening some clamps

gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

What are you lookin at...
Took it in for the 6-monthly WOF check today, failed on "can't close the hood" and a park light out.

Changed the one park light globe, then the other as it was basically stuffed too.

Durr


Yay! Legal!


Who the heck uses park lights anyway. Then showed the guy that you can close the hood if you give it a good slam and I'm away and legal again(apart from 2300km in deficit on diesel miles, ugh) for the next 6 months. Good thing my injector pump picked today to not leak

May not be doing much on the Cruiser for a while, focussing on trying to buy a house (with 2 garages!!)

LeeMajors
Jan 20, 2005

I've gotta stop fantasizing about Lee Majors...
Ah, one more!


I don't have anything to add other than to say that I wish your car was my car and I've been reading this thread with a semi.

Wish we had diesel Cruisers here. *sigh*

I want a LC but fuel efficiency is poo poo here on the gasser LCs (13-15 on the 1FZ) and I drive a lot. Guess I'm sticking with the 4Runner for awhile...

gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

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I'm averaging about 11.6L/100km highway with this beast! And I found a place (80km out of town, but on the highway that I have to drive to go anywhere I want to go mostly) that sells diesel for $.99/L! Everywhere in town it's $1.24 a litre.

Next to a new V8 70 series ute in the shed at work

gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

What are you lookin at...
I have one less accessory belt now. gently caress you, non-functional air-con and failure-prone idler pulley bearing. Now to sit back and enjoy my fuel economy savings and extra power with all that parasitic drag gone.

gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

What are you lookin at...
Hey, why don't I pull my shifter and have a look at the seat bushing m, since it's a dumb bit of plastic that apparently falls apart eventually and makes shifting a bit of a drag, even though my shifter has very little slop in it? That's a good idea!!



Oh it's fine, no need to replace it, I'll just spend an hour taking half the interior apart to try get these 4 tiny retard bolts back in then



Also removed a switch from the dash that obviously was hooked up to spotlights at some point, and pulled a shitton of associated junk wiring without electrocuting myself once



So much cleaner up in behind the headlight now! Although there are some sockets that sort of look like they ought to be attached to something. And my park lights stay on with the headlights now and I don't remember whether they did before or not. The FM radio seems to get way better reception now though, it was rubbish before



Also chased a mystery, obviously not factory, wire back along the chassis to this rats nest, it's running power into that aluminium finned thing, any ideas what that is? Reckon I'm good to rip it out?

gimpsuitjones fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Jun 12, 2016

gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

What are you lookin at...
Turns out it's a voltage converter, hooked into the light circuits for the trailer plug, with very light gauge wire and extremely ghetto connections, with a hot wire from the battery routed in an exceptionally retarded route along the chassis. Better leave it in and not fry every trailer I hire. But might tidy up the wiring at some point.





Also I have a leak around my windscreen.

Ferremit
Sep 14, 2007
if I haven't posted about MY LANDCRUISER yet, check my bullbars for kangaroo prints

I completely forgot yours is a 24v truck...

Anphear
Jan 20, 2008

gimpsuitjones posted:

Also I have a leak around my windscreen.

Got Glass cover with insurance? seals should be done at the same time? plenty of grit (ball peen hammer) in southland.

I also saw those heat sinks and wondered what it could be.

gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

What are you lookin at...
Yeah I have glass cover, my windscreen frame is rusted (common issue on 70 series it seems) so I need to pull it all apart and have a good look to see if I need to get a new fibreglass frame

gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

What are you lookin at...
so I'm on the hunt for a second car which I really don't need and I found this which is insanely rad and I'm also wildly unable to afford it this month. Ticks all the boxes:
- Retro
-Toyota
-Cheap (ish)
-Brown




What could possibly go wrong?




e: definitely not buying it. this month.

gimpsuitjones fucked around with this message at 10:06 on Jun 17, 2016

gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

What are you lookin at...
Scored four factory Prado 15x7" alloys with worn 31" All Terrains and a 5th brand new AT. Got a buyer lined up for my worn out Kumho muddies and poo poo steelies so the change will cost nothing and the muddies were past it anyway. Looks better with the alloys at least. Handles like dogshit with 4 wheels and an extra tyre in the back though, mad body roll

gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

What are you lookin at...
I'm an insufferable nerd about my diesel consumption for some reason, which is weird for a person driving a 31 year old 4WD shaped like a brick. New rims and tyres gave 11L/100km flat on the (quite hilly) drive home today (199.8km), slightly larger diameter tyres than the old muddies. And that was with 150kg of other wheels/tyres in the back of the truck so I assume it will be better without that extra excess weight on board

Queen_Combat
Jan 15, 2011
20mpg for the, well, USs?

gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

What are you lookin at...
21.4 US MPG 25.7 imperial MPG I don't know which one people use.

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

gimpsuitjones posted:

so I'm on the hunt for a second car which I really don't need and I found this which is insanely rad and I'm also wildly unable to afford it this month. Ticks all the boxes:
- Retro
-Toyota
-Cheap (ish)
-Brown




What could possibly go wrong?




e: definitely not buying it. this month.

Motherfucker that is insanely priced. Insanely. As in I wish I hadn't just spent $1200 on two motorbikes.

gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

What are you lookin at...

Slavvy posted:

Motherfucker that is insanely priced. Insanely. As in I wish I hadn't just spent $1200 on two motorbikes.

I know right? those always seem to go for 5x that. I wish I wasn't completely loving flat broke, buying a house, and going to Rarotonga in 4 days

It's sold anyways

gimpsuitjones
Mar 27, 2007

What are you lookin at...
In Landcruiser news: I got a wheel alignment and I'm not sure it's actually any better than before.

Ferremit
Sep 14, 2007
if I haven't posted about MY LANDCRUISER yet, check my bullbars for kangaroo prints

considering that anything other than toe in isnt adjustable on those solid axles (Camber, forget it, your bending diff housings to change THAT, Caster? Hope you like removing axles from leaf packs and jamming in steel wedges!) I'd be pretty surprised if they hosed it up!

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cakesmith handyman
Jul 22, 2007

Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

gimpsuitjones posted:

21.4 US MPG 25.7 imperial MPG I don't know which one people use.

Honestly that sounds fantastic and about twice as good as I expected.

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