How To Save An F-Series Toyota Land Cruiser Engine & Why Toyota Carburetors? Red Line Land Cruisers

ALL IN EFFORT TO SAVE AN F-Series Toyota Land Cruiser Engine! ••• F’s are bad on the report card, but under the hood of your Toyota Land Cruiser, F’s are good, in fact, THEY ARE GREAT! The F-Series Toyota Engine is well worth the efforts of saving as they are actually more rare than than the 40-Series Land Cruisers they came in! So many Toyota Land Cruiser owners removed the original power-plant in the early years, in favor of small block Chevy engines. But with enough time, we all want to go back into time and start all over. Luckily, some of you saw the original magic of the F-Series inline six engine and stay with it! The Toyota F-Series engines inline six is both simple and reliable, when properly maintained. But we always want more and we are exploring that as well with our adaptation of EFI to the old school inline six carbureted engine. But before you start slapping a significant amount of modifications to the F/2F engine, we highly reccomend bringing back and keeping up to spec on the periodic service maintenance schedule. This is the very "thing" that keeps the "reliability" in the awesome reliability of the Toyota Land Cruiser - MAINTENANCE!
Our blog post, "2F SNIPER 101 - WHERE TO START FOR YOUR FJ40 TOYOTA LAND CRUISER?" is a great place to start EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO ADD EFI, as this post is all about getting your rig back to spec! To that point, why would you look for performance improvement modifications when your engine is sub-par on the service / maintenance specifications?
Here at Red Line Land Cruisers, we are dedicated to the Toyota F-Series of engines. We love the simplicity and reliability of these old F-Series engines and we strive to preserve these engines with proper maintenance. We are constantly exploring the ways to keep them as reliable as they day they rolled off the assembly line 35+ years ago, while extracting some “hidden” reliable performance gains.
For these old combustion engines, oil is life and proper service maintenance is key! But unfortunately Toyota has discontinued what we feel is are critical parts for the survival of these old rigs! As Toyota themselves have slowly started discontinuing service parts, Red Line Land Cruisers has taken on the painstaking task of remanufacturing a couple of “factory” parts to continue our proper service and maintenance for our customers (and our own) Toyota F-Series engines that are anywhere from 35 to 50-years old!
We help you make them great again as we’ve spent painstaking hours researching what is the correct 1F Rocker Shaft O-Rings to use as these have been long discontinued from Toyota.
• RL1040 1F Rocker Shaft Shaft O-Rings (2) - Toyota Land Cruiser
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[@ephjay6t87]

I couldn't agree more. Stock carb worked flawless above Leadville at 12000 ft.

[@Redlinelandcruiserscolorado]

AWESOME! That's what we like to hear!

[@vintageteqparts5531]

Very High Tech fundamentals of a Vintage Toyota Land Cruiser 2nd Generation 2bbl F1.5 AISIAN OEM Factory Carburetor , the facts in this TECHNICAL Tutorial are SOLID ! good show Red Line ..

[@Redlinelandcruiserscolorado]

THANK YOU!!!!

[@paulsthormes251]

Great video thanks for sharing 👍

[@Redlinelandcruiserscolorado]

Thanks for watching!

[@NA12495]

Heard your comment about elevation. Me, "I wonder if they are in the Springs". Found your website and saw that you all do, would like to visit and learn what I can from you all if that is alright. Last weekend I purchased a FJ60. It came with a spare engine 3F, not sure the year, will need to look up that stuff. I started to take it appart.
The current engine starts to die if you push in the choke, maybe not warmed up enough? The body needs work.

[@JohnTigueDotCom]

Outstanding

[@kevinrbarker]

Awesome vid!
I can't seem to get my original mechanical fuel pump to match the carb for some reason. I've got an electric pump in there now but I hate it. Ideas? I'm at 8,600 ft and up.

[@Kindoflikerambo]

Great video on the F! Please make a rendition of this video talking about all of the same things for a 2F! Pretty please!

[@Kindoflikerambo]

How does the oiling work differently on the 2F? Is the 2F carb same way to change jets?

[@Redlinelandcruiserscolorado]

Great suggestion! I'm sure we will do so soon!

[@gypsyshot5225]

I don't understand running semi synthetic I run stp oil in my engine to keep from flattening the cam and to keep the old bearings happy

[@user-vn8nk9ev2v]

Casi no opino porque la idea de hacer tutoriales es para transmitir tus conocimientos pero de manera clara y honesta para aquellos nos gustan los motores de todo tipo y este tipo perdón expresarme así pero que da la casualidad de que alguien trae un problema con este tipo de motor y es la falla que le presenta su vehículo pues casi que le da un paro porque no especifica si esta midiendo gasolina o aceite uno o varios que ya tenemos en esto lógico pero se pone de fanfarrón desespera saludos

[@andrewhuntzinger2293]

Loved this video. Had the info i have been looking for. I bought a 1970 fj40 with its orginal F-engine, but it runs like crap. We have already done alot to it and it didnt have too many miles, or poor mantinence. However, it still has a few problems. Firstly, the carb mixture screw doesnt do anything. For some reason it has a 2f carb on it right now. Would having a 2f carb on a 1f engine really change all that much with how it runs? Also when driving the car up a small hill, there is a lack of power, as well as you have to rev the piss out of it to get up the hill. We just ordered a correct carb and hopefully that works.

[@Redlinelandcruiserscolorado]

Did the correct carb help? Sorry for the 1-year later response!!!!

[@andrewhuntzinger2293]

@@Redlinelandcruiserscolorado yes it did. I was able to find a date code one and rebuilt it completely. The idle soleniod needed constant power to stay idling.

[@spencerhall4452]

Good video

[@Redlinelandcruiserscolorado]

Glad you enjoyed

[@lastfirst5790]

Do yall offer engine overhaul services?

[@Redlinelandcruiserscolorado]

Yes - please call the shop to discuss: 719.638.2003

[@jonascagape520]

can this engine be paired with an 80 series tranny?

[@Redlinelandcruiserscolorado]

I don't think you would want to put such a heavy transmission (80-Series) onto the older F/2F engine. The did with the 3Fe and auto trans for both the 62-Series and FJ80 (1991-1992) 80-Series. Are you specifically looking to put an auto-trans in an FJ40? Give us a call at the shop some time to discuss: 719.638.2003