Thread: whats your opinion on the old toyotas

Tojo was made to work, nothing more...why you want to buy one for recreational use??? My pet hate was the way that window winder would stick right into the soft part behind your kneecap. You couldn't stretch out in it. We managed to make the seats more comfortable by welding about 40mm of strap into the front seat frame, it tilted the seat just enough to support the bottom of your thighs. Another thing to look out for was the oil spinner in the 47...sounded like a turbo winding up but if you didn't clean it every oil change it would plug up.......arrrrrggghhhh, its all coming back like a bad dream......
Good things like the amount of places you could open up a stubby before the advent of twist-tops(bet the dentists of Australia lamented that invention) That TJM bullbar was good for pushing a train with two or three of us roaring up the road in the bulldust getting pushed by the last cruiser...how we didn't kill our selves.....dirt sking with just a rope and your boots on a freshly graded track....lifting the dozer driver clean off the bonnet at about 30kmh...hit him between the legs with the windscreen washer....he thought a snake had got him on the balls......terrrrribbble things.....never own a tojo.....terrible

Originally Posted by jonesy61

My pet hate was the way that window winder would stick right into the soft part behind your kneecap.

Unlike a Defender, which just bashes right into your kneecap!

the first one I drove I rolled(ex snowy mtns swb hardtop)doing what I naturally did in a landrover, it pinned my armunder the door for an hour or so b4 the cocky relised I was missing. at first I loved the power then began to hate it because it got you into more trouble than the low powered landies. I didnt go near one till mid70's when I was working in NT as remote areas deisel fitter (and I mean remote)then the hate affair began again.overpowered, extremely thirsty and uncomfortable and I had to spend some time in them. I enjoyed a few years in the australian army driving rovers again and bugger me if they didnt buy a dog of a thing....a lwb canvas top troopy....as an interim vehicle as they phased out and tested the series111 replacemants. it was a pig....when you put a section of soldiers in it (as it was meant to carry) the back went down, the steering went light and it would wander all over the road. the s111 landy did that with confidence and towing a trailer usually loaded to the hilt. thats just my experience with "tojos".....if you want a vehicle of that vintage go the landy.

Originally Posted by jonesy61

Another thing to look out for was the oil spinner in the 47...sounded like a turbo winding up but if you didn't clean it every oil change it would plug up.......

What oil spinner is that? What engine was it fitted to?

Interesting this. We have had land rovers here since 1949 and Toyatas since 1966. For some reason the Toyota's have been more durable than the series landy here They are bloody tough. They just seem to bend and twist with abuse. I guess the Landy is so well made there is no room for this so they break
Have had no dramas at all with the 2H engine and have had it since new.

I still like my Rovers but couldn't have them here in this fleet with out the Land Cruisers as they take the abuse better.

The Land Rover is way better off road but the Toyota is much stronger in many ways.

Hence I have both here

Spinner was on the first of the HJ47 2H motors they were removed sometime in the eighties when the new look cruiser come out. It sat above the oil filter assy. Looked like an old cartridge filter with a clip on band. If the 2H you have has got it you cannot mistake the noise.

I got a BJ73 84 SWB 2.4 ULP Bundera at the moment. The places this thing has gotten me has to be seen to be understood. Been through hell and back more times than I can recall, but didnt quite make it through unscathed!

Moving into a 97' TDi Disco manual anyday now (well once Ray from Romsey LR has finished with it).

I wont hear a bad thing about this truck, been reliable as hell, I had the G'box re raced last year, and its finally given up the ghost in the form of a leak exhaust valve (after 400,000 klms). Sadly, I need a truck with more room for my son now so its off to a new home for my mud pig. Besides I gettin older and softer and need a bit more comfort!

So if anyone is after a Bundera with every single panel scratched by blackberries, a 2 inch lift and worn muddies with a motor that needs replacing, and more umm "character" than a pitbull at the end of his fighting career, it'll be going to ebay as a "comp truck" base build in the next week or so!

They were very reliable albeit uncomfortable. An old farmer here has one that he claims has never broken down (estimated 600000km) - been up and down Africa, to Asia, Europe etc.