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The previous owner fabricated it himself.

Gave the old girl a quick wash and then another polish for good measure.

Gravity bled front brakes., ordered set of front brake pads for the shelf, one new brake pad slide pin (to replace a bolt that was fitted at some time in it's past), 2 of the wires that stop the slide pins coming out, and one bottom wire clip that was missing drivers side front.

Wasn’t happy with the new front brake pads. they came with the car when i collected it - i found them in a cubby in the load area at the back. appears a little oil or hydraulic fluid or something has been weeping into there, so i shall have to investigate that. anyway, long story short, the...

Replaced front brake pads. would have been better if i had started 30 minutes earlier. ended up making a makeshift tent to finish the job off when the heavens opened.

Just arranging insurance. NFU came in at £200 a year cheaper than A flux for me. Also they answer the phone and not getting put on hold for an hour was nice as well.

Was away last week - just to keep all posted paid on 20th june, diff locker was delivered to the house on monday 24th june so much better

seems to be working much better. just set delivery with dhl and paid for import duty and vat £110.7 - so still a fair bit cheaper than buying via roughtraxx. delivery should be by tuesday

just paid for shipping this time with DHL so hopefully things will run more smoothly this time. originally we used their cheaper shipping solution.

ok thanks, that makes sense. i am now waiting for amayama to confirm that it is back in their parts warehouse in uae so hopefully i can go for round two

At the third attempt I intercepted them as they came in and got the letter/bill posted and got them a couple of days later. This process took just over a year and was entirely down to the incompetence of Royal mail/ parcel force. Thank you - when you say you intercepted them can you clarify...

So the diff lock from amayama got as far as uk customs. and then it sat for a week. the next update from their shipping service indicates it has been returned to UAE. most odd. no attempt by local post office to deliver and local postman who i know has had nothing for me either.

@chadr - will do

@Gary - chers. the body itself looks ok. already rounded one bolt and all the irwin extractor did was chew it up. ill get that bolt off with a dremel if need be once the new actuator arrives. otherwise the overall lack of serious rust underneath has made most of the buts and bolts easy enough to...

Rear locker. Woke up today with the thought i should buy a new locker so have done that from Amayama. Once that arrives I will strip the old and see if i can get it working, it can always live on the parts shelf for now.

@pugwash - no i did not

I had done. i have just downloaded the virtual box with techstream from iha8mud. and with the new mini vci lead it connected, and had in automatically filled in model and engine - which none of the other versions had done. It also correctly interrogated all the ecus so I am pleased with that...

The wiring/pins at the ODB port appear OK. i also swapped the OBD fuse for good measure. I have hooked up a carista dongle and can read the ecus, also using carscanner i can read data from the sensors. so at a loss right now as to what is afoot.

It does go on and on! The old lead used to work, then it stopped working. i bought the nano to replace it, and then another lead as well. the nano and the new lead using various versions of techstream all connect to the car. but neither will interrogate any module. i will check wiring in the...

That’s an interesting thought. ill have a look in the morning cheers. What is puzzling is that it must have stopped working when the old lead dies, I am wondering why the old lead stopped working and what happened immediately before.

Disconnected batteries for an hour, then tried once more. same story - can access the car with techstream but cannot access any of the modules with the Nano, nor the new Mini vci cable.

Hmmm, so i have tried the vcx nano on another toyota and it connect fine. as does the new mini vci cable that just arrived. neither the Nano nor the mini vci will interrogate any module on the landcruiser. might have to try a different model year and see if that sorts it, or perhaps disconnect...

i dont think it will make a difference either. i have asked about five times for a refund and they keep dragging it along. i will have the last laugh. i have since ordered another vci lead. techstrem sees the nano, the nano connects to the car as it should. but when i attempt to connect to...

Thanks. I had their tech support on a team viewer session yesterday. they want me to upgrade that laptop from windows 7 to windows 10 (will be new to me - i have only used macs since the mid 1990s). Techstream is set to connect to J (cant recall the rest) as Nano does not show up as an...

What version of windows are you running? I can get the VCX Nano to connect but iot will not access any of the modules.

@pugwash - many thanks. The nano connect to the truck fine but techstream wont interrogate any of the modules. i have tried version 16 and version 12 with the same results. working with the supplier now to try to resolve the issue. versipon 12 with the old minivci cable did connect until the...

@Dave_S i really enjoyed my outings in the Jimny. went places that an 80 would have got well stuck in. it's a great little light truck. mine had a "lift" just shackles and poly blocks atop standard suspension. i fitted a trailmaster kit and that transformed it. i also got rid of the insa...

Jimny's are great fun. This is mine when i had it after i sorted out the wheels and suspension and baselined it. Made a nice hand throttle out of a shimano gear changers mounted to the side of the gear stick. worked really well.

When cleaning the intake part of the head on my Rav4 I also had a shop vacuum nozzle against the side of the intake port i was gently scraping so the junk got pulled out and away. meant i could slowly get a lot of the junk out of the head.

All done. Took a little while to persuade the rocker cover off, the gasket was well stuck down and pretty hard in places too. Going to see about getting the rear locker off so i can strip it and see what is up. still got that rounded off bolt to contend with. all my irwin extractor did was...

Thought I would start to pull off the intake / EGR, resin cover etc to save some time in the morning when I do the valve clearances. Quite a bit more involved than removing the valve cover in my old 12v 80. Anyway, all done bar removing the valve cover so i can do the valves clearances in the...

i have tried the lead in another machine with vmware installed an also it is not recognised so it appears, to me, that it is passed it's use date. I tried a snap on solaris i think it was today and it does not look into the ahc system. i think i will order the vxdiag nano and if it works all...

HI Karl Thank you. All vms quit. i have restarted the mac and then launched only vm that i need. all other leads and usb devices continue to be recognised. no recent software updates on the mac. ~any thoughts on the VXDiag Nano?

Hi Karl;. Normally when i plug in any usb device it always in the list of devices and i ave it set to ask where it wants to be connected. the light on the lead lights up when plugged into the usb port on the laptop. then when i went to use it two days ago it has stopped showing up. i have...

My Mini VCI lead just packed up - don't know why. Lights up but no longer being recognised by the virtual machine on my mac. has been working fine for the last 18 or so months. Do you have any experience with VXDiag VCX Nano? Will be run using a virtual box or VM Ware fusuon on a mac. Has...

I suspect there will be many similarities. toyota dont often change much once they have something good. just incremental improvements. The cheat sheet was also very helpful.

Fitted new retaining clip to underside of drivers headlight washer.

HI Brett, Sorry, I had not realised that.

Fitted new retaining clip to underside of drivers headlight washer.

Not sure if this will help in case you have not seen it AHC resource for checking and tuning your AHC - [Leaving Land Cruiser Club]

Extended the axle breathers into the engine bay and fitted new metal caps.

Nipped up the aircon belt. I herd a brief chirp yesterday when i started the car with the aircon on. Extended the front axle breather and fitted a new end to replace the rusted solid old unit. I'll be doing the rear axle one to terminate high up in the engine bay on the other side when the...

@AndycruiserguyLomas - cheers. It is getting there now. It is such a nice truck to drive. I am pleased with the way it is coming together.

10 hours. i could not slacken off the top bolt on the shock so spent several hours with a grinder and then a flap wheel to remove it and not damage the metal plate that holds the bush in. got it all back together and find I have a leak in the air bag assister system. Both springs in, AHC bled...