landcruising
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Great, I will be looking into this..
Antique Land Cruiser on the road since 2003
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I needed a new hollow bolt for the blinker.
Heavy tools for the reinforcements of the frame.
Every Sunday it's junkyard shopping.
This time I get some almost new doorrubbers, and a bunch of genuine Toyota connectors.
I bought a roll of rubber and I am cutting new dust covers for the front which go around the shock absorbers.
The old radiator gets dismembered.
The top and bottom get a real scrub with acid and a steel brush.
Then the top gets soldered to new panel.
This is looking real good.
Adventurous greetings,
Coen
I needed a new hollow bolt for the blinker.
Heavy tools for the reinforcements of the frame.
Every Sunday it's junkyard shopping.
This time I get some almost new doorrubbers, and a bunch of genuine Toyota connectors.
I bought a roll of rubber and I am cutting new dust covers for the front which go around the shock absorbers.
The old radiator gets dismembered.
The top and bottom get a real scrub with acid and a steel brush.
Then the top gets soldered to new panel.
This is looking real good.
Adventurous greetings,
Coen
landcruising
Adventurer
So I want to check the valve clearance tomorrow. Warm up the engine, and intake is 0.20 and exit is a whopping 0.35. Now what would these figures be if the engine is cold?
DiploStrat
Expedition Leader
Looks like Fun!
Out of curiosity, who is doing the work for you?
And if, in the end, things don't work, Alex Mechanica in Achumani has always been very good; especially for diagnostics. Hope you don't need him, but if you do, give him my best.
Out of curiosity, who is doing the work for you?
And if, in the end, things don't work, Alex Mechanica in Achumani has always been very good; especially for diagnostics. Hope you don't need him, but if you do, give him my best.
landcruising
Adventurer
this is just a replacement of the gasket of the breather pipe [forgive me for I don't know the official name for that] it is the gasket that sits just under the exit to the exhaust. And I can set the valves myself if needed, but I would be busy getting the electric system [wires] back into the cockpit. The compression looks okay, so I am not worried anything being wrong. But thanks for your concern...
Aids10
xploraz.net
Great WebSite! :victory:
Heya all,
I recently discovered this website and wanted to share with you all the little adventures we run into.
Just traversed the Pantanal, Brazil in numerous ways. The wheel-hubs stayed locked for more than 8 days on two excursions crossing unbelievable flora and fauna.
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Adventurous greetings,
Coen
landcruising
Adventurer
The engine is back in the truck!!!! Yahoo!!
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Meanwhile Esteban is sanding the right fender.
This is how the enforcements look like. It is still very rough because I did not grind it yet.
In the rear section some parts have been cleaned of rust and bent back together and welded. It is looking a whole lot better than before.
Simon is applying the asphaltic protection layer on the bottom of the tub.
Because there is a very small local appliance industry I guess most things are imported from all over the world and you can have all sorts of plugs that don't correspond with the socket. So to cut the plug and just stuff in the wires is a common thing to see around here.
Alex is cleaning the front differential housing. In the back the frame is getting a thick protective orange layer of paint.
It is getting winter here, that means it is getting colder but also dryer and mostly blue skies. The Illimani is showing itself more and more and is not always hiding in the clouds anymore.
We are getting spoiled and used to so many things in the west. Like water from the tap, or cooking gas from a tube. Here in Bolivia, but many other countries that we have visited, people have to line up and get there gas bottle changed whenever the gas bottle truck is passing. If you are lucky you would have more than one bottle in you house. One filled bottle sells for 3 USD.
The mechanics waiting in front of their little stores for the cars to show up.
Greetings Coen
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Meanwhile Esteban is sanding the right fender.
This is how the enforcements look like. It is still very rough because I did not grind it yet.
In the rear section some parts have been cleaned of rust and bent back together and welded. It is looking a whole lot better than before.
Simon is applying the asphaltic protection layer on the bottom of the tub.
Because there is a very small local appliance industry I guess most things are imported from all over the world and you can have all sorts of plugs that don't correspond with the socket. So to cut the plug and just stuff in the wires is a common thing to see around here.
Alex is cleaning the front differential housing. In the back the frame is getting a thick protective orange layer of paint.
It is getting winter here, that means it is getting colder but also dryer and mostly blue skies. The Illimani is showing itself more and more and is not always hiding in the clouds anymore.
We are getting spoiled and used to so many things in the west. Like water from the tap, or cooking gas from a tube. Here in Bolivia, but many other countries that we have visited, people have to line up and get there gas bottle changed whenever the gas bottle truck is passing. If you are lucky you would have more than one bottle in you house. One filled bottle sells for 3 USD.
The mechanics waiting in front of their little stores for the cars to show up.
Greetings Coen
Scott Brady
Founder
Thanks for sharing the trucks progress with us.
Please let us know if you need anything from the US.
Great photo here:
Please let us know if you need anything from the US.
Great photo here:
DiploStrat
Expedition Leader
Great photo here:
Most of La Paz used to be 110v and houses were wired with U.S. style outlets. Today most of La Paz is 220v (except mostly parts of Obrajes), but Bolivians still use U.S. 110v outlets. Being 110v rated they take more current and most of the Chinese made 220v outlets are simply junk.
So guess what happened when the cable guy plugged by TV right into the wall in Irpavi. Never could get it fixed. :-(
landcruising
Adventurer
I think you might be better of without a TV anyway :Wow1:
landcruising
Adventurer
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Esteban is passing a layer of paint over the frame. Very quick drying paint. Notice the absence of a decent dusk mask. So you can see, that pink isn't the color we'd chosen finally
This is how the frame looks like with the reinforcements cleaned up and the right color applied.
I am trying a fix on the emblems to see if I can get the shiny front back, but with the black background... I am still figuring this out.
The tub in the back, the frame and the two axles in the front. If you see it like this, it looks pretty basic this car. In fact it is.
Esteban is helping me finding a way how to fit the spare tank in the rear.
It would be something like this. But we will finally see how high it can sit when the tub is over there.
I am spotting this strangely adapted BJ45 in a street not far from the shop. This one has Bolivian plates, but it has Germany written all over. I did talk to the driver, but he wasn't the owner and he knew very little about the car, or where it came from.
Me cleaning the front cardan. Making it ready to be painted as well.
The two axles painted and ready to roll in place under the frame.
I redid the brake lines, added a new fuel line for the spare tank and a hose for the breather plug on the rear axle. I want to combine that one with the front one and the one that sits on the gearbox.
Coen
Esteban is passing a layer of paint over the frame. Very quick drying paint. Notice the absence of a decent dusk mask. So you can see, that pink isn't the color we'd chosen finally
This is how the frame looks like with the reinforcements cleaned up and the right color applied.
I am trying a fix on the emblems to see if I can get the shiny front back, but with the black background... I am still figuring this out.
The tub in the back, the frame and the two axles in the front. If you see it like this, it looks pretty basic this car. In fact it is.
Esteban is helping me finding a way how to fit the spare tank in the rear.
It would be something like this. But we will finally see how high it can sit when the tub is over there.
I am spotting this strangely adapted BJ45 in a street not far from the shop. This one has Bolivian plates, but it has Germany written all over. I did talk to the driver, but he wasn't the owner and he knew very little about the car, or where it came from.
Me cleaning the front cardan. Making it ready to be painted as well.
The two axles painted and ready to roll in place under the frame.
I redid the brake lines, added a new fuel line for the spare tank and a hose for the breather plug on the rear axle. I want to combine that one with the front one and the one that sits on the gearbox.
Coen
landcruising
Adventurer
And I give you two bonus images as well:
The end of the fuel line that needs to go to a 24v solenoid port selector which I haven't found yet. Most likely I would need to source that outside Bolivia.
When I am finished for the day after seven, I have one last look back at the shop. La Paz in the back is illuminated by thousands of lights. And the Illimani is still visible.
Coen
The end of the fuel line that needs to go to a 24v solenoid port selector which I haven't found yet. Most likely I would need to source that outside Bolivia.
When I am finished for the day after seven, I have one last look back at the shop. La Paz in the back is illuminated by thousands of lights. And the Illimani is still visible.
Coen
DiploStrat
Expedition Leader
Perhaps, but I assure you, the empleada did not agree, and I had to make a trip to the black market.
Sooooooo, where are you getting your work done. Looks like it might be just below el Alto.