Not a nice new flashy thing, but a good old solid truck.
It is a 1985 FJ62 top of the range in its day.
I has a 4 ltr straight six engine (3F) with a carby on top.
It is a manual 5 speed gearbox, with dual range, and a LSD rear in it, which strangely for a Toyota still works????
It is pretty much standard, the only real changes being a small suspension lift which I installed, and electronic points in the distributor which are amazing! The truck starts easier, runs smoother, and is just a bit nicer to drive - and I don't have to adjust the points every three months as I had to with the old mechanical points.
We have not used it heaps - time just gets in the way, but I do like to find some dirt when I can, but I don't get to find "Dirt Every Day" Fred - I would love to, but it just doesn't happen unfortunately.
But as you can see here, it happens occasionally.
The photos never show it as rough as it was, but that hill we are about to go down was fairly steep and uneven - not at all a challenge for the Cruiser, but it was more than a 2WD could handle.
One thing the Cruiser did do to us was let us down near a place called Cocklebiddy - if you look it up you will find that it has a normal population of 8 and it is a Petrol Station, some accommodation for the workers, and some motel units, and miles away from anywhere.
That was our tent set up while we tried to figure out how to get a broken 4x4 1200km back home.
Blown head gasket.
Four days later my brothers arrived towing another 4x4 on a car trailer so we could tow our trailer back with that one while they towed our Cruiser back on the car trailer.
It really was the only way to get back home with our car and trailer from there.
My life is punctuated by car breakdowns, and even Toyotas are not immune to my powers!
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