crazy seeing your son mature through the videos! recently watched some of your older ones back from 3 - 4 years ago and you can tell how much his grown in that short time! pretty cool to have a dad into 40's and learning a lot along the way!
Geez Jase, you could've sprung for new rotors whilst its all apart! lol. Another great vid, like portcruiser said, you'll need a proportioning valve to balance out the brakes now too. About to do a similar conversion to my 78 HJ45, although I lucked out and found an 83 HJ47 to donate it's disc brakes. Cheers, Andy.
Thanks mate, Yes proportional valve, will get done when the booster gets installed. I checked out the rotors, they had a lot of meat on them, I will save up and swap for slotted rotors when it come to replacement time.
Thanks mate, will install when I upgrade the brake booster. Sounds like there is a bit of a story with yours. Feel free to share and send photos of your cruiser to 4045channel@gmail.com
@@40ChannelCruiser Hi again ! Ideally you will need to mimic all the braking system from disk brake equipped 45/47/60/7# series . It has small but important diferences from the drum braked system . I believe that the 60 system will also do with minor adaptations . I had a 1982 Portuguese made BJ4rked5 ( yes , they were made in Portugal also , 1st Toyota factory in Europe ) with had drum brakes . I tried to adapt disk brakes from a wrecked BJ73 and I it was very difficult to had the system working properly . Only when I mimicked all the brake system from the 73 and applied it to the BJ45 it worked as intended . I don't have the 45 anymore and don't have any photos , sorry . It was long time ago , late 90s and digital cameras almost didn't exist . But I have a few Land Cruisers and will send you som photos if you want . Keep your great videos coming , I really appreciate them ! Cheers !
Love the videos! Question I have: I have a '72 40 with drums. If I get my hands on 40 series disk brake axles, is it a direct swap in, or are there necessary modifications to other systmes to make it work?
@patricknevius4919 Yes you can swap the axle with the disc brakes right over, just double check the diff ratio are the same. If on the rare occasion that they are a different ratio. Just swap out the diff from your 72 to the new axle.
Based on your obvious expertise, is there a better fit for the FJ45 disk brake conversion between the FJ60 and the FJ62? Follow your builds to the letter…great stuff , Thanks
hi im from colombia, i have a question, the brake system of the other series, can function? are you know which? your videos are very interesting, i love this. i have a toyota fj43 1978.
Thanks for the videos! What did you do for your steering after switching to 60 knuckles? Ive done the same swap but the 40 series tie rods are too small for the 60 series steering arms.
I am so happy with your videos! I am restoring an fj 43 from 77 (in the Netherlands) now my question is. i have a bj 42 front axle. can the brakes also be transferred to the fj 43 front axle? does look the same. mvg Maarten
Hi Maarten, Yes, you can swap between the models as there are the same. Only different is on earlier models have different spines but these can be swap around too, to make it all work.
As pre NSW Government, there is no need to as this was an option for the 40 series landcruiser, these are the same parts used from the 40 series models at the time. Below is a statement from the NSW GOV Web page. "Replacement of front-wheel drum brakes with disc brakes on a vehicle available from the manufacturer with front disc brakes as an option where all the parts from that option are fitted eg fitting a base model LC Torana which has drum front brakes with the disc front brakes originally supplied to the GTR model LC Torana"
crazy seeing your son mature through the videos! recently watched some of your older ones back from 3 - 4 years ago and you can tell how much his grown in that short time! pretty cool to have a dad into 40's and learning a lot along the way!
Nice video I did the disk upgrade also.I got mine from an 85 Toyota pick up bolted on Great upgrade .
Geez Jase, you could've sprung for new rotors whilst its all apart! lol. Another great vid, like portcruiser said, you'll need a proportioning valve to balance out the brakes now too. About to do a similar conversion to my 78 HJ45, although I lucked out and found an 83 HJ47 to donate it's disc brakes. Cheers, Andy.
Thanks mate, Yes proportional valve, will get done when the booster gets installed.
I checked out the rotors, they had a lot of meat on them, I will save up and swap for slotted rotors when it come to replacement time.
Hi from Portugal ! You will need an LSPV to make the disk brake system work properly and safely . Don't ask how I know :) ...
Thanks mate, will install when I upgrade the brake booster.
Sounds like there is a bit of a story with yours. Feel free to share and send photos of your cruiser to 4045channel@gmail.com
@@40ChannelCruiser Hi again ! Ideally you will need to mimic all the braking system from disk brake equipped 45/47/60/7# series . It has small but important diferences from the drum braked system . I believe that the 60 system will also do with minor adaptations . I had a 1982 Portuguese made BJ4rked5 ( yes , they were made in Portugal also , 1st Toyota factory in Europe ) with had drum brakes . I tried to adapt disk brakes from a wrecked BJ73 and I it was very difficult to had the system working properly . Only when I mimicked all the brake system from the 73 and applied it to the BJ45 it worked as intended . I don't have the 45 anymore and don't have any photos , sorry . It was long time ago , late 90s and digital cameras almost didn't exist . But I have a few Land Cruisers and will send you som photos if you want . Keep your great videos coming , I really appreciate them ! Cheers !
Love the videos! Question I have: I have a '72 40 with drums. If I get my hands on 40 series disk brake axles, is it a direct swap in, or are there necessary modifications to other systmes to make it work?
@patricknevius4919 Yes you can swap the axle with the disc brakes right over, just double check the diff ratio are the same. If on the rare occasion that they are a different ratio. Just swap out the diff from your 72 to the new axle.
Based on your obvious expertise, is there a better fit for the FJ45 disk brake conversion between the FJ60 and the FJ62? Follow your builds to the letter…great stuff , Thanks
Same brake setup, the 62 is newer cruiser with more tech.
did you not have to grind the birfield housing? did I miss that part? mid 80s fj60 swap to fj40?
@jola689 No I didn't have to grind the housing. I have seen people have to do it, but wasn't needed for me.
Now you just need to do a disc rear
My hj47 was standard disc front
I'd love disc rear !!
Did you use the setup from the 79 series?
hi im from colombia, i have a question, the brake system of the other series, can function? are you know which?
your videos are very interesting, i love this. i have a toyota fj43 1978.
All 40, 55, 60 series disks and all 1980's, possibly some 1990's 70 series depending on what models you got over there.
Thanks for the videos! What did you do for your steering after switching to 60 knuckles? Ive done the same swap but the 40 series tie rods are too small for the 60 series steering arms.
Hi Richard Have a look at the video at 9:40 and I explain why and what to use. 40 series arms.
Did u use the 47 axle or 60 axle
@@davidmisener3671 oringal axle with 60 series backing plates.
I am so happy with your videos! I am restoring an fj 43 from 77 (in the Netherlands)
now my question is. i have a bj 42 front axle. can the brakes also be transferred to the fj 43 front axle? does look the same.
mvg Maarten
Hi Maarten, Yes, you can swap between the models as there are the same. Only different is on earlier models have different spines but these can be swap around too, to make it all work.
@@40ChannelCruiser
Not totally sure what you mean with spines. Are that the ridges?
@@maartenjansen3044 . He meant splines on the axles.
Will you need to have it engineered as you're changing the brakes and booster and then have it compliance plated?
Great vid as always. Thanks.
As pre NSW Government, there is no need to as this was an option for the 40 series landcruiser, these are the same parts used from the 40 series models at the time.
Below is a statement from the NSW GOV Web page.
"Replacement of front-wheel drum brakes with disc brakes on a vehicle available
from the manufacturer with front disc brakes as an option where all the parts from
that option are fitted eg fitting a base model LC Torana which has drum front brakes
with the disc front brakes originally supplied to the GTR model LC Torana"
@@40ChannelCruiser many thanks for the info.
Nice job do you need to upgrade the booster? I have a 81 HJ47 also with drum brakes.
Booster and proportioning valve. 80 series are apparently the go to booster
You look German
Aussie 🇦🇺 all the way mate!