15x25 - Toyota Land Cruiser

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some cars need no introduction the
iconic Toyota fj60 I wonder what the 60

stands for top speed which is 60 miles
an hour just tell me what's wrong with it

it's too slow and too dodgery at
least they were built to last rebuilt the

steering knuckles everywhere it's only
a little full speed what we need is a nice

five-speed gearbox in there could
get messy I was a nightmare what this is

gonna cause the vibration if you
try to run the driver this way but when

all of that sorted we'll have a
vehicle fit for any terrain the landscape.

annihilator and everyone will want one.

back in the 80s Toyota hit the market
here with a vehicle they called the fj60

and that's the vehicle I'm on my way
to go and see a 1985 of j60 long wheel

base now over the years I've always
lusted after a Toyota fj the prices have

been going through a roof I found
a fairly decent car Jerry the owner is

selling it for about thirteen thousand
dollars that's nearly eleven thousand

pounds but I know that the market
for the second and one particularly the

sweet spot 1985 they're on the
ascent I just need to make sure that

this vehicle hasn't been damaged in
any way underneath hopefully there could

be a profit in it for me
and that but I won't know

any of that till I go and
stand right in front of it.

ah look at that well it sounds all
right did it hey nice one that do you.

nice to meet you thank you very
much for bringing the truck down I really

appreciate my pleasure sure so this is
the one yes 1985 Toyota Land Cruiser fj

60 well the first thing is this
interior wow look at that is it's super

clean it is super clean driver seats
not ripped carpets new dashes nice

condition right the handbrake is
a little bit tatty but other than that

everything else looks great didn't it
yes that's like a little treasure trove

very good have you been off-roading
it nope I haven't you haven't no sir

you haven't done no adventuring no
not yet this is the kind of vehicle that

can go to the top of a Patagonia
mountain isn't it there it is original

engine all good you can see the
original paintwork that's down in the

inner wings and that firewall nice
dry running engine to perform all right.

does well yes starts every time
lovely yeah usually do didn't they.

Toyota's that's so reliable they're
indestructible they are aren't they

so let's have a good look underneath
there's a nasty oil leak coming from.

a transfer box it's sprayed up
underneath that'll have to be done.

right okay all nice and sharp down
here very good and it's got that split

opening tailgate which is always good
gas trucks are working which is nice

yes and I love the fact you can drop
down this tailgate especially if you're

going grouse sh**ting on your
land it's very nice yes it is it's very

good lots of space in there well
it seems a nice honest vehicle

everything seems to be in place or the
trims good I won't know whether I want

it or not until I get it out there and
take it for a quick test drive do you

mind no my first drive of a 1985
Toyota fj16 for a very very long time

I've been in one of these for many
years and it feels kind of familiar but

first of all I'm gonna tell you
some of the stuff I find rather

disappointing about this old bus
number one is the paintwork as suspected

these cars over the years when people
take them down trails off-road they get

brushed up against bushes and trees
and branches and they suffer damage

down either side of the car and I
gather that's what's happened to this

and somebody's had a go at painting
it but when they painted it they've not

wet sanded it back and they've
just left it as a sort of painted car in

its raw state and it looks
absolutely awful that's number one.

number two is just not very fast
this car that's it flat out fourth gear and

I'm doing top speed which is 60 miles
an hour and that's the nature of this

four-speed gearbox it's woeful
and is this what it was like in 1985 did

people feel happy just driving around
at this speed in these vehicles are they

nuts I don't get it seriously it's too
slow and too doddery the vehicle itself

in terms of the way it handles the
way it's getting down the road the

steering's good the brakes are okay
and the gearbox although puny it does

work this is one of the first vehicles
that gave you that lofty driving

position that feeling of safety that
you got when you strap your kids in the

back and went for a drive you felt
like he was over the top of the other

traffic you felt like you could
conquer any landscape in front of you

at the moment it's too expensive
yeah I think Jerry's trying his luck a

little bit I can get it for 12 grand
I'll be happier 12 grand or less I

think that's where I need to be
when it's vehicle so how to drive it's

very good the engine is really good and
strong yeah it gets down the road nicely

back in 1985 I'm pretty sure people
were used to driving in fourth gear at 60

maybe 70 miles an hour and that
was enough for them but these days that

little puny four-speed box doesn't
cut it so I want to do something with

that and then there's the other
things the interior is great you're

right the temperature Gauge doesn't
work I think there's a leak underneath

from a transfer box the knuckles
need doing the paintwork needs

attention I do like it it just it's
there but it's not quite there yet sure.

comes down to price how much was it
I'm asking 13,250 13 250 would you take 12

grand for it I just can't do that
what's the best your take I would do

twelve five twelve thousand five
hundred I'll let your end you got

yourself a deal well done right I
just bought myself a Toyota fj60 nice

deal thank you good morning morning a
Land Cruiser and an fj60 long wheelbase

yes it's very good isn't it you
brought the vehicle all the way from

Missouri and this is it yeah all right
don't worry about it I can see that as

well I did the same thing as soon
as I see it it's been painted in a

sandstorm it's awful under a garden
sprinkler but don't worry we've got a

really good paint manipulator and
we can wet sand this car back and I'll

handle that don't worry about it
it's the ship of the desert it's not a

camel a camel is a very good ship of
the desert if you can't get camel next

best thing is a Toyota Land Cruiser
particularly the fj60 because you can

carry a load of stuff like a camel
okay forget about it just tell me

what's wrong with it you know before
we talk about what's wrong let's talk

about what's good of it because this
is the 4.2 liter inline-six engine very

very bulletproof yeah bulletproof
till it breaks down because eventually

everything breaks down that's very true
everything does break down eventually but

this one's not broken it's actually
all right and it drives okay it's a little

bit slow and dodgy and underneath
you can see it needs a bit of a tidy up

but in general it's all right so I've
got nothing to do in here yeah the

work isn't necessarily up here it's
more underneath right so the first job

you got to do really is rebuild the
steering knuckles because they sort of

exploded and they're covered
in oil so they need doing but

basically have a look underneath
at what really needs doing.

Mike there's oil everywhere it's
leaking like a tea strainer I am so.

sorry yeah it has got quite a few
leaks underneath and they do need a

dressing but you're good at that
kind of stuff and why are you all

sorting out the oil leaks you can get
me the gearbox out as well it's only a

little four speed and it's no good
because it's 60 miles an hour it sort of

runs out of speed and it's no good
today what we need is a nice five speed.

gearbox in there and I think that's a
way to add value to this vehicle and.

trust me we need to add value so if
you get me the gearbox out I'll sort that

out and I'll change it for a five
speed yeah but that's adding work

because already we've got leaks of
oil from god knows where yeah I haven't

even had a look the steering knuckles
and now a gearbox change yes good in

it hey once you see the inside
it's lovely look at that interior got a.

quality in this dash a perfect this
is real Japanese quality all of this

is working right well yes all of it
works except for there is a brake light.

that's constantly on the handbrake these
rebuilding the radios missing or not but

other than that it all works okay
shift over I'm gonna tell you a little

bit about the story of the Toyota fj
because he's really interesting do you

know where they come from nope right
in the Second World w*r the Japanese

found an American Jeep that was left
behind and they sent it back to Japan

and they said copy that and they did
and they created the fj series even the

j and fj means Jeep Wow it's a bit
cheeky is a bit cheeky but then as an

every other manufacturer copied
everybody else it's kind of the way of

things isn't it but look at the
success they had they sold this

vehicle globally all over the world
and they're really sought after and

people well they're still going crazy
for them yeah I know everybody loves

these Jeeps there's this huge
passionate following which worries me

because passionate means expensive
no they are very expensive yeah so how

much twelve and a half thousand dollars
right it's our job to just add a little

bit of value to the vehicle we can do
that by turning up the paintwork five

speed gearbox dude and knuckles
tidy up the engine bay make this vehicle

really desirable and I'll find it's a
customer for it I'm hoping I find five

grand in the glove box trust me
you won't I've been every inch of this

vehicle I've nearly pulled it apart
you won't even find a shilling if you

look up the word illustrious in the
dictionary it's defined as well-known

respected and admired for its past
achievements and if you think about the

FJ range of vehicles it is the very
very definition of the word illustrious.

we might cause this the ship of
the desert and he's absolutely right

because it's built to just keep
going and going and going even if it's

really hot and dusty climates the
thing is though for me it's more than

that it's a car for all seasons
because it's built to carry loads and.

loads of people but still have all the
modern things that you'd expect from an

SUV and on top of that it's said that
you can only k*ll a Land Cruiser with

rust now Mike has tasked
me to fit a new gearbox in the

car and his famous last words
were it's just a simple swap.

now this is the original gearbox
off the car and I dropped it out in one

big lump with the transfer case and
that same original transfer case is now

broken down into all these tiny bits
and the reason I had to take it down so

much is because you have to take it
apart to remove it from the gearbox and

that's because this is a split
transfer case now this is our new

replacement gearbox and the gearbox
in the Land Cruiser is critical it's.

part of that bulletproof package
problem is our old one has a pretty

average top end in fact Mike says it's
around 60 miles an hour but when you

consider at the time the speed limit in
the US was around 55 miles an hour it.

was all part of that Land Cruiser
mentality to build something that goes

further just not faster but of course
today's demands have changed

people now want both now Toyota
realized this as well so as the years

went on they also developed the
gearboxes now we're going to be using

this a later gearbox out of an fj62
and straightaway you'll notice that it

has this extra fifth gear this
overdrive gear whereas you notice on.

the old one has the similar casing
but it's got this gap now this new

gearbox is going to allow for proper
cruising speeds on really fast roads

and when you think about it that's
something that our Land Cruiser has.

never ever experienced now the
fj62 gearbox isn't available in the US so

Mike shipped this in and chosen it
because it's a really popular upgrade

now I've given everything a clean
and I've laid it all out on my bench see

now's the time for the tricky bit
I've got to put it all back together

which means reassembling the transfer
case to the gearbox and then fit both

the one big unit back into the car
right the first part is this in a housing

plate which mounts here on the back of
the gearbox the reason I'm showing you

on the old gearbox is because it
takes eight bolts of which this one the

middle one is now obsolete because
of course we have the fifth gear in the

way so to reuse this I need to
plug that hole which I'm gonna do I'm

using a half-inch tap to create threads
within the aluminium housing and a

matching threaded grommet with a dab
of liquid PTFE to plug the hole now the

last modification is this little
plastic nipple here diverts oil into

the fifth gear here if I spin that
round grab a new gasket this I'm just

adding a little drop of sealer to these
bolts and then using a torque wrench.

I'm gonna tighten them up 47
foot-pounds right now I can start with

some internals kicking off with
this gear selector next up I'm going to

install this idler shaft should just
slide in perfect and then the idler

gear itself starting off with this
little washer I have to be really

careful with the idler gears inside
there there's two sets of needle

bearings likely to fall out perfect
now this chunk here this is the rear

outward gear line this hole up and
then make sure all the gears mesh one

at a time perfect and give that
a little whirl right next is this the.

main output gear this slides on this
little collar and then this bearing goes

on here but needs a little bit of
persuasion now I'm gonna close all this

off starting off first by fitting a
new gasket and then it all gets

protected with this now this is known
as a split transfer case because you

have to split it apart to get it off some
models have it in one piece but the

split ones are seen as more reliable
it might be a bit of extra work but I

take the liability any day now what's
cool about this car is that every day

it's a two-wheel drive car it only
engages the rear prop shaft and drives

the rear wheels it's only when you
use the second gear stick it engages

the front prop shaft and the car becomes
four-wheel drive but above that you

need to get out the car and manually
lock the front locking hubs now the car

is four-wheel drive and it can tackle
any terrain I'm just gonna use this

torque wrench tighten these down
properly and install the output shaft

cover right next up is the drive
shaft flange which slides onto the

splines and then it's held on with a
washer and a pretty hefty nut so the

hold this all in place I've made a very
simple bit of bar with two holes in and.

I'm using the bigger torque wrench.

perfect next up is this washer and
another hefty nut I'll use my trusty

tool again and then more sealant
in the last cover right next up is this

really clever hollow bolt the
reason it's hollow is it houses this tiny

little spring and on the end of that
there's little ball bearing now this

one provides a tiny bit of pressure
to this forward and back selector

shaft goes in the side and is locked
in place and next up there's this

little sensor that tells the car it's
in four-wheel drive right that's the

bulk of my transfer case done now
I get to reassemble the gear linkage

starting off with this dust boot
then this bolt acts as a pivot goes into

the side of the gearbox housing and
now the linkage slides into the pivot

bolt and then the shift lever and
then this end gets a split pin now.

that's exactly how it should feel
really positive right so right now the

transfer case is in two-wheel drive
high ratio so if I turn the gearbox

simulating the engine running it's going
to put power into the rear wheels only

if however I move it back to four
wheel drive still high ratio turn the

gearbox it now not only drives
the rear wheels but it also drives the

front wheels if I move it into
neutral turn the engine it's generating

power through the gearbox but
the shafts aren't moving the car's

stationary but you can add your PTO
unit and drive another bit of kit move

it down to low ratio I'm still turning
now four wheels but the ratios

slightly lower it's perfect for boggy
ground this thing's quite heavy and

bulky you've just got to tackle it
one bit at a time I'm using this pole

Jack to take the pressure and weight
so I can remove this big and clumsy

trans Jack now the trans Jacks out the
way I can attach the gearbox mount now I

can get the crossmember on and
that is the gearbox done the great news

about this new five-speed gearbox is
exactly the same dimensions as the old

four-speed which means the original
prop shafts are going to drop straight in

but I did notice when I took them off
there's quite a bit of play in there so

I'm not going to risk it I'm going
to use this opportunity to get them

fixed although I say me when I
really mean so I got to give the old man.

something to do now this car suffers
with a problem that often gets left

because it looks like a nightmare
job and what owners tend to do is keep

topping up with oil and grease as a
means of masking over the issue now the

chances are if you own a car that has
this kind of knuckle steering joint that

it's probably leaked because it's a
really common issue now this axle

casings hollow it's filled with oil
from this little plug here and that

oil lubricates the differential and
the two drive shafts now somewhere

around about here internally there's
an oil seal and that seal prevents the

oil escaping from the axle casing
into this joint because that joints now

lubricated by grease and the problem
is if that seal breaks then unfortunately

oil escapes the axle casing and
contaminates the grease now around

here there's a gasket that's
designed to withstand the thick heavy

viscosity of grease so of course
when it's mixed with oil it thins out

and it leaks to get to the knuckle I
first need to remove the brake line

and the caliper now this joint here
is called a closed knuckle joint it's

kind of like a ball and socket a
bit like a hip joint and it allows.

articulation but I just free the knuckle
from the ball joint now this knuckle

design complements this fixed
live axle you get a load of articulation

while still delivering drive you
can tell that our seal has failed just

from how wet it is it's one of
those things if you leave it it's

gonna drain the axle of oil and
that'll be catastrophic this could get

messy yeah this should be grease it's
very liquid in fact it's more like oil.

definite bust seal.

this type of steering joint was found
on loads of 4x4s in the 60s and 70s.

cars like the Ford f100
the Ford bronco the

Chevy blazer the cj
range of jeeps they're all

pretty big hitters and
frankly that speaks volumes.

now these closed joints are way better
protected when they're looked after.

and it's said that this
design has a better

delivery of power when
you're going for a turn.

I think given the choice I'd take this
design even though this is a bit more work.

oh you can just tell by the weight
of it this joint is built for purpose

but it's supposed to
go over rough roads and

rocks and this joint
here our ball and socket.

it's also really hefty
now this is known as

a burfield joint it's
kind of like a cv joint

inside there while
all of this is strong

unfortunately this
gasket by its very nature

has to be made of a
softer material and that's

the problem the
gasket and the oil seal in

there that's this joint's
weak link and before

I think about putting
this back together I.

don't know if it's going to work or not
I don't know if it's going to work or not

happy birthday dear boy hey well it's not
actually my birthday but thanks anyway well

technically it is and
I do feel like I bought

all your birthday
presents at once inside

that box right so either that's a cake
or a box of bolts well unfortunately it's.

the steering knuckle
rebuild kit for the Toyota

yay how was that
gearbox did that go in nice

and easy that was a
nightmare if that's a split

transfer case it was
an absolute shed load of

work well if you pardon
the pun that's no piece

of cake either listen
to this it sounds like

a broken teapot in
there there's a load of

parts that's going to
be difficult in comparison

that's going to be
easy really yeah I know

you've got that to do
you've got the handbrake

rebuild to do lots of
other stuff so I thought

you know what I'll
come down and see if I

can assist you with
anything yes she can drive

shafts drive shafts there's nothing wrong
with these these bolts straight on to that

replacement gearbox
they're fine in terms of

size and dimension
but feel it this one's

completely locked
solid this one's got a little

bit of play in it so I'm
hoping that you can

take these away swap
the ujs out get them

refurbished and bring
about brand new actually

I know a little company
around the corner who.

can help me refurbish
these yeah so no problem

at all leave it with me lovely enjoy your
birthday present better if it was cake now

the drive shafts don't
really need to change

for our fj60 now it's
had its replacement fj62

five-speed gearbox
they had the same length

and had the same
geometry but and tells me that

our ones are particularly
second-hand the u-joints

are locked up and they're just a bit of a
mess and they could do with refurbishing so

I've come down to see
my friend he's called

Brian he runs this
company they're called drive

shaft pros and when you look in any direction
I'm just surrounded by drive shafts.

these are the drive
shafts I spoke to you about

these are off my Toyota
fj60 I've upgraded a gearbox

to an fj62 okay the
drive shafts at the right

length just at my
mechanic camera can see.

could do with refurbishing
what do you reckon

yeah you're right
yeah it's got a good it's

seized up on these two caps right here so
it won't even go in one direction so we'll

tear that apart and see
what's going on inside

the first step is we'll
throw it in the parts.

washer it's got some pressurized jets on
the side it's kind of like a big car wash.

this is going to pull right out and we'll
just want to make sure that the cap of this

and the cap of this are perfectly parallel
in line right so at the moment they are

they are out of phase we call
it out of phase and what this is

going to cause is a vibration if
you try to run the drive shaft this way.

now junior here is
using what I call a bench

press he's pressing
out the u-joint caps

that enables him to
take the whole thing apart

once it's all apart it's
going to go back in

the parts washer it's going to get cleaned
again need to remove all the debris all the

junk anything that's in there before he can
start reassembling it and putting it back

together that way we
get a nice clean free

motion so then Brian
all cleaned up and ready

for reassembly and
these are our new u-joints

are they yep we have a
four brand new u-joints

that we'll be installing
into the front and

rear shaft and throw it
on the balancer lovely.

to make the shaft absolutely straight
it's heated to expand certain sections.

and cooled with water
to shrink other sections

now miggy is going to
be spinning up my shaft

to 2600 rpm that's to
simulate what happens

when it's in the car
once it's spun up he will

then see by this
computer behind him where

it's out of balance then
miggy is gonna start

taping down little weights on the shaft to
get it perfectly balanced once he's happy

and he's got a pass reading on all he will
then bring down this it's a spot welder and

he's going to spot weld
those weights on so

they will never fly
off again in the future.

the drive shaft's been
painted it's been balanced.

so Brian i can see
we've got the splines and

the arrows lined up and
the two couplings either

end all in phase that's right yeah as long
as we haven't affected the weld and switch

the orientation we
should just be able to

line up the u-joints
and slide this right in.

look at that to replace
the drive shafts on

this car would have
cost it in excess of 500

bucks to repair the drive
shafts would be about

200 bucks yeah less
than 200 less than 200 to

replace them so massive
saving I've given all

the parts a really good
cleanup and I've laid out

the rebuild kit that
Mike's given me and it

might look like a lot
of bits but actually this

is fairly straightforward
now this is that old

oil seal that I've
removed from the axle this

is responsible for keeping
the oil within the axle

casing servicing the
diff and the drive shafts

and preventing it from getting into
the greasy area i'm going to swap that

for a nice new one
and this thing here this

is that rubber seal
that sits on the back of

the knuckle here and is responsible for
keeping all the grease in the thing about

this is it's not perfect
grease does generally

work its way out of
it so while the service

on that car is every 10 000 miles every 5
000 miles this gets re-packed with grease

via that tiny little nipple there now if
you imagine if grease can get past this

oil most definitely will i
reassemble the knuckle

using all new seals and
gaskets to ensure that

not only the grease stays in the knuckle
where it belongs but also so that the gear

roll stays behind the axle seal yeah that
feels so much better nice and positive.

there's four components to the rear
of this knuckle joint there's the first one

is this metal clip which
slides in there that

acts as a kind of scraper making sure the
inside of the surface is clean keeping the

grease on the inside
then there's the rubber

gasket that helps keep
the grease on the inside

then there's this kind
of fabric one that helps.

clean the outside keeping
this surface nice and

clean and then all of
that is held in place.

by these retaining
clips see this is the right

consistency of grease
not that liquid oily

substance that was in
there before right one

of Mike's gaskets
with the parts nice and

clean and using all new gaskets
the assembly is quick and easy.

there's no real way
of preventing that inner

seal from leaking it's
just a matter of miles.

but if you stay on top of the knuckle grease
and keep the diff oil in good condition

you can prolong its life you see
slow and steady is the only way to do it

and then you realize
you're only halfway through.

and Mike's warned
me that the handbrake

doesn't function and at
the same time the brake

warning light on the
dash doesn't work and at

first i thought the two
things were connected

but i opened up the bonnet and had a look
underneath and it turns out that somebody's

put a new master cylinder in with a new
reservoir and a new cap that's not even.

wired into the loom
now it gets even better

because fishing around
in the engine there's.

the original cap off the
original master cylinder

still wired into the
wiring loom now this

works on a simple float
mechanism sits in the

reservoir as the levels
are high there's no

light as it drops it
creates a circuit turns

the light on on the dash
and warms the driver

so what i reckon is this is shaking around
in the engine flicking the light on and off

now this should be
fairly easy to fix all i need

to do is splice the new
cap into the original loom.

i'm deliberately staggering my cuts
to avoid any potential wire contact.

stripping the ends
pre-fitting some shrink wrap

a bit of flux paste
and soldering the wires

together tidying it all up
with a shrink wrap and

a heat g*n right now a
little check remove the

lid keep hold of the
float turn the ignition

on perfect now that just
leaves the handbrake.

now in america the handbrake is called
an emergency brake or e-brake for short

and in a country dominated by automatics it
actually seizes up because a lot of people

don't use them they rely on the automatic
gearbox in park mode to catch the vehicle.

now i mean it feels
really stiff it's not

moving very far but
the handbrake itself feels

really solid and that's
the point it's supposed

to create a mechanical
advantage a really big

movement up top creates
a smaller movement at

the bottom but that
movement's way more powerful.

yeah i need to see what's
going on underneath.

now underneath here
yeah there's the base

that's the bottom half
of that handbrake lever

and it joins this really big central cable
that's secured to the underside of the car

all the way down to
this pivot point here and

it's at this point when
you pull the lever

it spreads the load evenly so it goes
50 50 to each one of the rear wheels.

so now if i remove
the drum you'll see that

the cable enters to
this lever here and that

actuates the rear shoes
now if you have a car

with disc brakes on
the rear the shoes are

often hidden within
the disc itself or there's

a second dedicated
caliper now that lever moves

this tiny little cable
which operates the shoes

mechanically it's a
completely different system

to the hydraulic one
where you press the brake

pedal the law states
that you have to have two

independent systems so if the hydraulics
ever fail you can always pull the handbrake

because the hydraulics
in our car are pretty

good that's my guess
there's something wrong with

this now if i pull the cable simulating the
handbrake movement and that's pretty solid.

yeah i can't move that with my hand.

all of this investigation
has narrowed down the

handbrake problem to
one specific component.

and here's the problem
this bracket here and

i can see straight
away i can feel it it's

absolutely locked solid
this should be moving

freely and i reckon that
movement i had in the

handbrake was simply the cable stretching
until it got to this point here and then

unfortunately it was all locked
up by this i might be able to save

it it doesn't look broken if i
remove that the pin's in place.

let me throw it in here
and put some penetrating

fluid on it hopefully
this will free it up.

it's pretty stiff it is
loosening up slowly.

yeah that's really loosened up now this is
great news it means I've saved this part.

right now if i grab
the cable yeah look at

that see it's nice and
free now even without

the mechanical advantage of the handbrake
lever that's how it should be I've also

noticed while i'm in
here these shoes aren't

actually that bad i'm
going to replace them

anyway that was exactly the same on this
side and i managed to free the mechanism up

and that is it the handbrake
is done and on top

of that i put new brake
shoes in on both sides

and they cost only 30
dollars it's a shade over

20 quid now all i'm
waiting for is Mike those

drive shafts we got
hold of the indestructible

icon that is the Toyota
fj60 indestructible

reliable but slow just
not very fast this car

that's it really slow Mike
not without its problem

it's only a little four
speed but with a new

five-speed gearbox
look at that and a wave of

anti-magical wand that's really loosened up
now this is a land cruiser that will keep

cruising the land for
many years to come yep i

know that's bad even
by my standards let's talk

about money we got the
car for 12 500 the gearbox

was 2300 the original
gearbox sold for 600 so

we'll take 600 off the
brakes 175 knuckle rear

build gets 105 drive
shaft 200 the paint and

paint correction came
to 600 this gives us a

grand total of 15 280
bucks around 12 000 pounds

and 24 man hours i'm
so glad our land cruise is

much more freeway
capable now it's got that fifth

gear but this is where
it's supposed to live

yeah when it was at four
speed 60 miles an hour

it had taken us hours
but now we can just

cruise along the
motorway thanks to that fifth

gear conversion have
you ever thought of a

vehicle that could be
more capable of tackling

any kind of terrain and
looking as good as it

does than our little
Toyota land cruiser yeah

i just cast my mind
back the day you brought

it in the workshop it
didn't look like this.

the paint work was awful
but thanks to Mel he's

wet sanded it and he's
absolutely knocked it out

the part but this vehicle
is now ready yeah but

it's more than ready
because remember think about

what land cruiser
did it created a legacy

forever it's supposed
to be in this environment

you know in the middle
east they called us

the ship of the desert
but today i think we're

going to call it the
landscape annihilator all

right so where are we what we're doing well
this is tay hum ranch now you may think

that i brought you to
our destination point.

no no where this vehicle
is capable of going

not many vehicles
can get there this is just

the starting point of
today's adventure so

jump in buckle yourself
up and let's off-road.

at the moment we're not even
scratching the surface i know we can

Chuck it anywhere and we
can go anywhere but this is just

gentle what i would call green laning
plodding plodding green laning now

now this is a little bit more
challenging all right so this is 45 degree

sleep bank up we go and i'm not even
going to tell you uh we just absolutely

munch through that munch through it
easy right easy easy climb that sucker.

go on you can do it
look at that fantastic

I'll tell you what for
a 34 year old fj60 it's

handling so well the
steering on this car is lovely.

i mean look let's face
it Jeep invented the

4x4 they really did Land
Rover run with a 4x4

but it was Toyota that made it reliable and
i think that's a fair point isn't it i mean

yeah this this brand
has left the legacy of

all off-road vehicles
and there's a reason why

these just live on forever it's handling
so well and the steering is fantastic this

finger turn on the sixpence what
a steering on this car is lovely.

okay so you need the 34 year old Toyota to
come and rescue you in your newer vehicle.

if you want to put it
that way uh please how

embarrassing for them
oh dear all right lads.

we're on the way no
wonder they got stuck go

on then where you go
go on son keep backing

up there you go you got it you got it
oh look at them look at them stuck.

it is like Wheeler dealer
rescue services isn't it.

but yeah i mean look for us the market for
the Toyota land cruiser is really strong.

i know it's strong
because this was a tough

vehicle to find so
if it's difficult to find

it's going to be easy to sell how many
vehicles would make it to the top of this

not many would they
hey not many i wonder if

you could straddle
that rock and feel a bit

safer if you straddle that rock if i was to
be honest with you oh dear i can't even see

what can you see let's
get out here whoa yes.

yeah you were right
this is totally worth it you

know there's probably
only a handful of vehicles

ever built in the world that could
make it to the top of this mountain

our 34 year old fj60 has
annihilated this landscape.

huh.

the Toyota fj60 is
an incredibly difficult

vehicle to find which
means it's going to be

an easy vehicle to
sell especially with the

addition of the five-speed
gearbox we put in

ours so i advertised
it out there on the

Internet for a no
quibble asking price of 16

000 and in record time
for Wheeler dealers just

30 minutes later this
young man behind me Brian.

was on the phone now Brian has a bit of
an obsession he's had 20 of them so he.

knows what he's looking at but he says that
he now wants a daily driver well let's see.

if he likes that one
right now Brian how you

doing what do you
think i like it i like it

obviously the
five-speed i think is is the

reason why i'm here i
don't own an fj60 with

a five-speed and i'm
really excited to get

this on the road so it's
16 grand what do you

reckon you got new tires on it right and
the brakes have gone through and perfect

yeah absolutely perfect
yeah 16 grand perfect you

just bought yourself a
Toyota fj60 well excited

thank you this Toyota fj was an absolute
pleasure to have through the workshop

we've changed this car's future without
changing this car's originality now i also

managed to get four
asking price for it at

sixteen thousand dollars
that's around twelve

thousand pounds and
me and ant are delighted

with that and if you
want to see more iconic

vehicles like this being
turned around by me and

ant then join us again
soon on Wheeler dealers.