Toyota 2FQ15

[John Hackett]

Well I picked her up today for a couple of hundred bucks.
Now just need an engine, gearbox and a bit of TLC.
Pretty good nick actually and I plan on returning her to the original soft top version.

[John Hackett]

Soooo, the question now is has anyone in Oz got a lead to the availability of the running gear. I am looking for an early "F" motor (not 2F or 3F) and four speed gearbox.
Unfortunately, a lot of these were left to rot after people removed them to put a chev V8 in a lot of the old cruisers.

Cheers.

[Ryan]

Are you on Facebook? Check out the rusty wrecks page.

[John Hackett]

Ryan,
Yes - And will do mate.

Cheers.

[aj.lec]

Originally Posted by John Hackett

Soooo, the question now is has anyone in Oz got a lead to the availability of the running gear. I am looking for an early "F" motor (not 2F or 3F) and four speed gearbox.
Unfortunately, a lot of these were left to rot after people removed them to put a chev V8 in a lot of the old cruisers.

Cheers.

Congratulations
Got a fairly rare girl there John

Should have bought it about 3 months ago though I sold a complete early FJ40 with F motor and box ideal for donor as body was rusty but rest was good

Another good site to get on for Toyota gear is IH8MUD forum http://forum.ih8mud.com/

[John Hackett]

Bugger!
I was looking at it a couple of months ago, but only got around to buying it recently. Oh well, thems the breaks.
Apparently there may have been only about 13 of these brought to Oz to try to sell to the Oz army, but never took off. This one (apart from mtor and gearbox) was well preserved due to well made custom hard top. This protected the interior and guages very well. It should be easy to convert back to original canvas top.

Cheers mate.

[Ron King]

F 110 motor is needed.
Extremely rare in this country.
Unless you import one ( still hard to find ) you will not find one.
The gear box was similar to the set up in a WW2 dodge weapons carrier/M37.
Would be easier to install a 2F motor and later transmission and may be a two speed transfercase instead of the single speed item.
In inside of the cabin and some fittings very closely match dodge M37.
Standard wheels were 20 inch.

[Dianaa]

There was a restored one around Cooma way in 2007, probably still around.

Unfortunately the link to the image is now broken.

It was one of the trials ones imported by Thiess.

[aj.lec]

found a couple of threads on IH8MUD
http://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/toyota-fq-15.87882/

small extract
Military Toyota's:
Developed by Toyota with the assistance of the US occupation forces
for use in South East Asia, Late 1950's.

They built
FQ10 (short wheel base) 4x4
FQ15 (long wheel base) 4x4
and
DW series 2-1/2 ton 6x6.

Later FQ15's were repowered at the factory with the H diesel.
I don't know if they ever came off the factory line with the H or if they
were all re-powers.

F engine is same as LC with different carb, I think same as the FA series
5 ton trucks, 2 bbl when the LC was using a 1 bbl.
H engine looks the same as LC except different air cleaner ??

Transmission is 4 speed with granny low. Looks similar to the LC trans but
with a big bump on the side to clear the large 1st gear.

Divorced transfer case with in/out for front drive, no low range.
Totally different than LC and the M37 that it was patterned off of.

Axles are unique, split banjo type.

Wheel are 20 inch split, M37 used 16 in wheels.

Canvas top, 24volt electrics.

They also had ambulance model for the 4x4.

Don't know much about the 2-1/2 ton series, only have seen one and it was
a total rust bucket. I do have a Japanese manual.

All of these vehicles were used in Japan by the Self Defense Forces in RHD models.
Many LHD models were exported to Thailand and Malaysia for use by USA
forces.

I have a Japanese service and parts manual which mentions the vehicle was
made by Toyota. Japanese models have a Toyota Badge in the center
of the hood.

I also have an English manual that shows a LHD model, nowhere does it mention Toyota. The LHD photos I have seen have no badge on the hood.

Toyota has no parts for any of these vehicles that I can find. Some electrical items seem similar to LC but not exactly the same.... Hens Teeth!!

I am supposed to edit all of this crap into a story for the Toyota Trails, only
been working on it for 1-1/2 years.... Maybe soon.

http://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/toyo...0#post-4250864

[lendlease]

I used to have access to a large range of NOS parts for these trucks. All gone now, as the entire shed was devoured by fire.... I do have an early F engine here.....also had a manual or two, one I have since sold. Think there might still be a couple of parts in the shed. Email me if interested.