First oil change

First oil change at 555,304km went pretty smooth. Bought myself a big bucket of Shell Rotella 15w-40. Replaced the oil filter with a BaldwinFilters part number: BT221 Also replaced the air filter and fuel filter.   It had a NAPA Gold Fuel Filter 3393, replaced that with a BaldwinFilters BF 7967.  

https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/rotella-t4-conventional-diesel-engine-oil-15w40-18-9-l-0287932p.html

Fixed fuel gauge

 Opened up the dash trying to figure out what's up with the fuel gauge. The needle always sits at empty. I ended up running a wire from the gauge on the dash all the way back to the sender unit. When I say the needle jump to full I thought I had fixed it, but it turned out I had just wired my gauge to stay at full all the time. Lol. Eventually I figured out that it was just a bad ground to the sender unit. The Landcruiser has a convenient access hatch in the back floor to get at the sender unit.

Bought the Landcruiser...

 

I had been looking for one of these for a while. A 60 series diesel Landcruiser wagon. I might have over paid a bit considering that it had over 500,000 km on it and a few issues, but the engine seems to run good.  When I went to look at it the batteries were dead and it was not charging, so they had to bump start it. I made a deal with the owner and so they put two new batteries and a new alternator before I bought it.

She's a 1986 with the H2 inline 6 diesel engine and 5 speed manual transmission. It's got a 24 volt electrical system.

 

 

So it has a few issues... One thing I noticed right away on the drive home was that the fuel gauge wasn't working.