FJ Cruisers of Northern California
WTS/WTT: 1970 Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser - warning lots of pics
1970 FJ40 in great condition with lots of upgrades. I bought this truck about five years ago from a good friend and did a lot of work to it thinking we would be going off roading a lot with the family. Turned out, we mostly cruised around town and bay area in it and did some very light off road trips, the rest of the time I was working on it in the garage(project/hobby). The paint was taken down to primer and bare metal and was repainted in a single stage 1970 Toyota Zypher blue. There was pretty much no rust at all when I got it but I sanded the under carriage and covered the bottom with POR-15 and underbody coating. The previous owner hand the 1F engine rebuilt by Toyota a couple of years before I bought it and it has approximately 24k miles on it and runs great. The transmission is a four speed SM420 with advanced adapter , and the rest of the driveline was upgraded about two years ago and has approximately three hundred miles on it. Below is the list of upgrades done and everything works great.
-Engine 1F - rebuilt by Toyota 24k miles ago.
-Transmission - Chevy SM420 in great shape
-Transfer case - Toyota
-4 wheel disk brakes
-Spring over axel (SOA)
-Like new Rancho 9-way adjustable shocks
-4.88 Yukon gears (done by Applegate garage 300 miles ago)
-Bobby Longfield 4340 fine spline chromoly axles and birfields all around (done by Applegate garage 300 miles ago). If you break an axle or Birfield, Bobby will send you a new one.
-Warn hubs rebuilt (done by Applegate garage 300 miles ago)
-ARB front and rear air lockers (rebuilt done by Applegate garage 300 miles ago)
-Saganaw power steering
-onboard mechanical air compressor with 5 gallon air tank
-dual fuel tanks with electronic switch over (~40 gallons total)
-custom family style roll cage
-heavy duty bumpers front and rear with swing out tire carrier and basket in rear
-Acura RSX front seats(excellent shape) with driver side under seat storage and Confer rear bench seat(under seat storage).
-Smittybuilt center console with cup holders and Sony marine stereo(new)
-dual batteries with Blue Sea automatic smart charging relay/isolator (batteries are on a tender) Primary battery is a Optima red top, accessory battery is a DieHard Platinum II group 34 Marine battery. Batteries are as new.
-Warn 8274 8k pound winch with Masterpull 3/16 synthetic rope and 28k pound hook. Winch was rebuilt three years ago and works great. (never had to use it).
-New exhaust system (very quiet)
-Hard sides of the hardtop (not painted) never needed to use it as this was a summer toy for us.
-Couple of Bimini tops
-Custom built rear rack with offroad lights
-Extenal guages and light and accessory switch panel on passenger side.
and probably a bunch more stuff that I'm forgetting...
Only bad: Need to replace front leaf springs especially the passenger side (I have all four springs but have not had the time to do it). A few wires to clean up. Tires have plenty of treat but are old and loose air after a month+ sitting around, and finally the brake shoes will need to be replaced.
We just don't use the FJ40 as much as I wanted to so it just sits in the garage. I built this Cruiser to be as heavy duty as possible. It will go anywhere and in low gear you can get out of the FJ and watch it crawl all by itself. I'm looking to sell it or possibly trade it for another toy we can tow with our FJ Cruiser. This 40 has at least $20Kof work done to it. I'd sell it for $15k OBO or trade for an Arima 17' Ranger, 16' toy hauler(something lite) or a Polaris RZR S/XP.
Just after paint job:
8274 Winch and Masterpull Synthetic 18k pound winch line
Custom rear rack with camping lights (right, left, rear controlled on passenger side switch panel). Lights run off the marine accessory battery so you can drain the battery and still be able to start the Cruiser off of the primary battery).
New hubs and seals
Interior
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Permalink Reply by Romanski on
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450 watt power inverter and one of two Blue Sea fuse blocks being installed.
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Rear view (I'll jack included)
Jr and I at Slick Rock... this is a cake walk for the FJ40. We had it in low gear and the rest the FJ did all on its own. This was our last trip two years ago :(
another view
This Cruiser will go anywhere. You'll need to go to a trail like Rubicon to see its full capability! It does 75mph on the highway on flat, hill climbs are 55mph ordeal, on the trail it is king!
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Permalink Reply by DivnGirl on
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Gorgeous! Any photos of your front dash and behind your Acura RSX front seats?
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if you look at the third picture from the last one you can see the back behind the seat. I could take a better pic for you if you would like but the back is currently full of camping gear so I'll need to get the gear out for a good pic. The FJ40 isn't exactly known for it's storage capacity :) When we get on the road I put most of our gear on the top rack that I built but in the garage, the rack is <1 foot from the top of our storage rack. I will take a pic of the dash.
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Permalink Reply by MoreFJland on
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That's one cool lookin 40. Wish I had the time & money for it. Good luck with the sale.
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Oh, OK. Just a minute.............."Honey can I buy my dream FJ40? What? Yes dear:-(. " Damn it!
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LOL.... WELL... when I bought our 40 my wife did not see until I brought it home but she knew how much I paid my buddy for it. I brought it home and she almost kicked me out of the house (I can't find the full picture of what the FJ looked like before). "You bought that piece of (*&#! ?!!!!? I told her there were a lot of modifications and work done to it already, no rust, it had a perfect frame and that it will be beautiful when I'm done with it!!!! I kept a low profile for a while and she calmed down eventually. I guess the point is this: You gotta know how to beg and plea with you significant other and be able to move your eye brows like John Belushi did in the Blues Brothers when his fiance was about to shoot him in the sewer.
It was not pretty!
The sanding begins, I relocate the filler for the rear tank to the back of the 40, behind the rear rack so that the cap wouldn't get ripped off if hooked on a tree or rock.
I realized I had mad sheet metal skills!
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Permalink Reply by Sonof40 on
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All I gotta say is choose your toys boys, before you choose your mates. :-)
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I’m actually pretty lucky. My better half knew I wanted an FJC, and she didn’t half to twist my arm too much when we ran across one. And best of all, she’s very understanding of my mad mod bug.
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