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This one's for all the other poor suckers like myself who don't have the undreamt of luxury of a garage, much less a workshop to tinker in. I don't know if it's the same all over the country––anecdotally, I've heard similar grumblings from mates the length of the land––but, up here in the grim...

OK. This is going to be a bit of a vague "How long is a piece of string"? type question. But here goes: Having endured nothig but rain for about the past fortnight here, I went out to give the engine a turn over today as, the battery was pretty flat last time I started it. Anyway, the...

I tell you, if I was a racehorse, my nickname would be "Fell at First Fence"! I thought I'd go out this evening and just loosen and re-tighten my wheel nuts. So they wouldn't give me any gyp when [weather permitting] I do the LBJs tomorrow. My heart sank as I saw the crappy poundland locking...

I've just been having fun snapping various labels in Japanese on my JDM import and dropping them into Yandex Translate's image recognition doobly-wotsit. I really like the way it gives you back the same image, but automagically translated. It's like having Babel Fish glasses. And it has saved...

Look. I know that, at nearly 30 years old, she's going to have "been round the block a few times" [pun intended]. But, having just got the V5 through yesterday, I'm shocked... How can I ever take this one home to meet mother? On a more serious note; this has fed nicely into the customary...

After spending about an hour scrubbing away at my rear axle with a wire brush yesterday to get rid of surface rust and, while doing so, casting my eye down what seemed like acres more chassis still to do, I'm thinking I'm going to have to break out the power tools to get the job done before the...

As I mentioned in elsewhere, my "almost-a-Colorado" has some oil misting around one of the rear wheels, which I think is a weeping hub seal, rather than brake cylinder. Also, it came with a new Toyota hub seal in amongst the folder of receipts etc. which points to someone else having made the...

Hi all. I know this is a bit of a "How long is a piece of string?" question. But I'm just looking for some very rough ballpark figures. I currently run two insurance policies. One on my van and one on the missus's car, where I have her as a named driver. It was loads cheaper to do it that...

Hi all. I just came across this site while loking for an owner's handbook for my Surf. It seems to be quite a good repository for manuals for Japanese [and other import] motors: https://jdmfsm.info/Auto/Japan/ Looking through the LandCruiser section, I think I've seen most of the manuals on...

Hi all. It's your one-time regular half-wit stuzbot here. Owner of the awful Colorado, about which I "enjoyed" many a discussion in this 'ere forum a couple of years back. BTW --said Colorado eventually got sold for about a third of what I paid for it, just to get rid of the damned thing...

Well, I've finally got round to listing mine on eBay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/374275354094 Blurb on the auction is pretty much the same as on my post in the classifieds from earlier in the summer...

Well, glutton for punishment that I am [and quite unrelated to the failure of Bargain of the Century© to provoke any padlock unlocking amongst the hoi polloi], I thought I'd let the dog see the rabbit today and remove the plastic trim round the rear wheel arches. So I could better assess what...

I hope this isn't infringing the rules. But just to let my fellow Collie forum frequenters know, I've listed mine in the classifieds section. No tax or MOT and chassis/sills need work doing. But engine & tranny are sound. I'm only after £1750 ONO for it. Surely easily worth that, even just as a...

Well, the on/off, will he/won't he saga with my Colorado continues: I'd taken the batteries out and left it parked up at the end of our lane since about the end of December, when the MOT ran out --planning to get tore into it when the warmer weather came along. So, yesterday i thought it was...

It just struck me the other day that-- what with all these energy price hikes [60% since last year and another 50% apparently on the way] and a lot of people barely able to afford to put the heating on in the depths of winter-- the much vaunted economic benefits of EVs must be starting to pale a...

I know that's a bit of a "How long is a piece of string?" question. But roughly how much juice is left in the tank after the orange fuel warning light comes on? Mine came on yesterday on the way to collect the missus from work. Only 4 miles there and back, but up lots of steep, narrow, windy...

Just spotted this one on eBay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255304886999 It could almost be mine's twin. Just one year older and I think the paintwork is actually a deep purply blue, rather than black. Usual MOT stuff about rusty cills and chassis. But not too bad. It's got a full MOT too...

As we hurtle towards winter, my vacant mind turns to a subject which has puzzled me since I got my Collie. Though, not having owned it through a harsh winter yet, not mattered enough to have me ask... until now: What's the score with the glowplugs on these things? Unless I'm very blind, there...

As per the title. All brake lights working fine normally But, when I put the headlights on, one of the brake lights stops working. Before I get out the multimeter and start scratching my head; does anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing this odd electrical gremlin?

As followers of my misadventures will know, I've had a love/hate relationship with my Collie, ever since I bought it. A lot of which is down to my own idiocy in pretty much ignoring anything forward of the engine and rear of the back axle, when doing my pre-purchase inspection. Which, of...

I've never used my truck's stereo because there's no aerial, so no radio signal. And the only other source is a USB socket which I'd never got round to sticking a USB stick into. Until yesterday... I formatted an old USB stick I found in a drawer and stuck a couple of MP3 albums on. Then...

Well folks, followers of my adventures will know I've been falling in and out of love with my Land Cruiser like a bleedin' weather vane over the past few months. At the moment, after doing my first 100km mission in it, I'd say I'm definitely swinging to the 'hearts and flowers' side of the...

Well, as followers of my misadventures on the 90 Forum will know; I bought myself a right lemon when I got my Collie, as [eejit that I am] I failed to spot that it had front end damage to the headlamps and radiator grille and [more seriously] that the chassis rails are rotten, down either side...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144182533668 Here's a bit of a test for you. Just say the first word that comes into your head, when you look at these pics: Did it, by any chance, begin with "R" and end with "UST"? If so, you may be surprised to read this in the seller's description...

CAUTION: VIEWERS OF A NERVOUS DISPOSITION MAY WANT TO LOOK AWAY NOW Well, there I was, innocently thumb-twiddling my way around Amazon the other day, when I noticed they had some of their special 'One Day Deals' on a couple of those wee WiFi Endoscope camera gadgets. So, impetuous devil that I...

I don't want to get ahead of myself here, since I still have to sort out 'The Case of the SumpPlug Made of Cheddar' but, while I was out yesterday, I also thought I'd take a pre-emptive peep at the cambelt, since I have a new belt and tensioner waiting to fit. Just to check the old one wasn't...

Sigh! --I thought things were going bit too well, having got a full week's worth of use out of the wagon, since my adventures with the LSV. Today, I thought I'd treat the old girl to a first flush of the tranny, seeing as the oil is pretty murky looking. So out with my basin and off I went...

Simple question. Is it possible to disable the auto-locking on these motors? Mine seems to lock itself after about 30 seconds and I'm paranoid some day I'll leave the keys on the seat, close the door without thinking and get locked out. Or even have the keys fall out of my pocket unnoticed and...

Well, guys and gals. As keen observers of my various threads on this forum will be aware, I only fairly recently bought this Colorado 3,0TD after spending a long time looking for one which wasn't disintegrating around the rear axle. Unfortunately, I think I've bitten off more than I can chew...

As fans of my recent posts will know, I've run into a fair amount of what I might charitably call 'teething troubles' with my Colorado, since I bought it: headlamp & grille arrangement held together with cable ties, the recalcitrant bonnet catch, the leaking brake fluid today... and then, while...

Gave the missus her first driving lesson in the Land Cruiser this morning. Nervous learner that she is, she tends to jump on the brake pedal the instant something hoves into view on the distant horizon. Anyway, after she'd finished her half hour's shattering my nerves and I got back behind the...

My posts are like buses. You wait all week for one and then three come at once! Anyway, wiping things down round the sump area today, while doing my oil change and I noticed in a few places what seemed to be strips of foam placed around that area. Most tucked away where I couldn't get in for a...

I came across this one today, while doing an oil change. It's spliced into the wiring for the brake fluid level sensor on the reservoir. But what is it for? I couldn't see anything nearby that it could connect to. 1st pic is where it was when I found it. 2nd pic is when I lifted it round the...

This problem is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to post it. But... As of the past couple of days, I just can't get my bonnet to latch properly when I close it. I'll admit I've only had the bonnet open a few times before, given I've not had the motor that long. But never noticed anything odd...

I must admit, I'm one of those people who generally just tightens bolts by feel and pretty much only uses a torque wrench for things inside the engine that are delicate or mission critical. However, today I was doing the LBJs on my Colorado and I happened to see the torque settings in the...

As mentioned in the Programming the Keyfob thread; while trying to programme my transponder key yesterday, my alarm went off. even though I was in the truck with my master key in the ignition [I think it may have been because I'd locked the doors with the fob on my new key]. Anyway, whatever...

I've just been looking at this stuff on Amazon.... https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001CZODH8 Now, I'm not usually one for miracle snake oils. But Liqui Moly's stuff is usually pretty well regarded and the reviews for this Cera Tec are pretty universally enthusiastic. So I'm minded to...

While I sit here, twiddling my thumbs, waiting for my new Lower Ball Joints to wend their 2 week journey from France [I think they're coming by 'DHL Escargot'], I'm amusing myself by reading all the horror stories about LBJ failure. One thing that I'm not clear about; given that some people...

Hi chaps and chapesses. Hoping you can help me unravel this mystery with my 90. As I mentioned in my 'Got One at Last!' thread; I pretty much devoted all my time looking over the truck before purchasing to checking the chassis for corrosion, checking the state of the transmission fluid...

I find that I'm watching stuff on YouTube a lot more than on regular telly these days. Regular telly just seems so dumbed down and fake that even programmes that on the face of it should interest me just seem really tacky and staged. And, of course nothing gets on TV without some obnoxious...

I ordered a set of genuine Toyota Lower Ball Joints for my 90 Colorado from Euro4x4Parts in France, as I couldn't find anyone with them in stock in the UK. Around £250 all in, including postage and taking into account my dodgy mental arithmetic conversion from Euro to £££. A bit steep, but the...

I brought this up in my 'Got One at Last!' thread: https://www.landcruiserclub.net/community/threads/got-one-at-last.156296/page-3#post-1556738 But it's got a bit lost in the midst of all my other froth-lipped tomfoolery there. So, since it's an important job I don't want to screw up, I'll put...

*maybe OK. I know this is likely to open a can of worms, as there are people who swear by the necessity for using all manner of specific and arcane formulas, when it comes to filling your motor's various orifices. And there are equally as many people who have had half a million trouble free...

Hurrah! --well folks, I've finally taken the plunge. After polluting your forum for the past month and a bit with my increasingly futile quest, I finally pulled the trigger today on that one I mentioned in one of my many other threads...

Well, as fans of my long-running Sigh! --Will I Ever Find One? thread will know; my quest to find a not rotted to feck 90 Series [later broadened to include 120 Series and 100 Series] has proved pretty fruitless so far. I've still got about a month left before I *need* to get myself some...

As readers of my other threads [mostly in the 90 Series section] will know, I'm currently on the quest to find a decent [as in not a rot box] Colorado / Prado, or 120 Series. As most of the descriptions in the ads seem to be written by people with a keen eye for romantic fiction, even armed with...

I just thought I'd share with you the fun & japes of my quest to find a decent Prado / Colorado so far. There have probably been 20 or 30 "mint conditioned... maintained regardless of cost... drives like a new car...." [You know, the usual bullshit] ones that I've liked the sound of on eBay...

I'm just wondering whether it's worth getting hold of one of those cheapo ODB@ scanners for my pre-purchase Land Cruiser hunting expeditions? Unfortunately, as with a lot of these things, the intarwebs is throwing up contradictory information. I've read in some places that they'll work with...

I don't know where I picked this up from. I've been reading so many forums / reviews /articles on Land Cruisers over the past few weeks, it's all become a bit of a blur. But, as thread title suggests; are Japanese import models smaller --more precisely narrower-- than Euro models? I've got a...

I'm know aspects of this have been mentioned in many a thread but, as I'm still questing manfully for my first Land Cruiser, I'm trying to collate the various snippets in one place. First off, the 1KZ-TE versus D4D debate. From what I've gleaned so far: 1KZ-TE * Mechanically simpler = easier...