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Thanks for kind words re my photo album

Interesting reading in your post. Yes it has forward and aft shocks ( of rear axle ). Yes the hand brake is shite, but new shoes should improve that. Yes, when in 5th gear the shifter wobbled about like a fly round a light bulb, but changing the shifter knob fixed that. Yes, some might say its under ...

Unfortunately Pylon track has been closed to vehicles Go to a book shop and get a copy of Andy Cockroft's book "4WD North Island - 102 Off Road Adventures" Its a bloody good read. His other book, 4WD North Island - 91 back country adventures" is another good one, but is mostly plain old gravel roads ...

Does n e body know a good site on the net for sourcing diagrams for cruisers? Need a front brake setup/parts/maintance diagram for the front brakes. Don't have a manual, and the library hasn't got this models manual. Its a 1989 LJ71. Since it appears to be surf/hilux running gear, would a LN61 ...

Its the Manual. I was really trying hard to avoid getting an auto, but the market is totally saturated with autos now so when I saw it on the yard I grabbed it there and then. Thank God for a good credit rating I too had heard the running gear was hilux/surf, so I guess with u being told that also ...

A lot of things need to taken into acct with radio performance. Atmospheric conditions and how much "skip" is availabe at the time u are using your radio. Also the higher you can get, the better the range, wether the arial is correctly tuned to the set it is coupled with, u can check that by getting ...

I got the LJ71 from the engine plate under the hood. I have always found the truck more than willing and with beams and coils all round it left my other 2 vehicles for dead. I took onto Fishers track in National park on street feet and met a group from North Shore 4wd club and, suffice to say, they ...

Ok, this may sound like a daft question but, my truck is a 1989 SK5 LJ71 Cruiser. Does this mean it is in the 70 series

Will help in getting the right workshop manual.