T OYO TA T R A I L S This is all dual flux capacitor to me but I am trying to learn. I appreciate your help. Stacey Leal will the mechanic that is doing the work fab up brackets to work? One other thought for you. Local to me is an Auto Electric store that rebuilds old alternators. He can typically rewind my stock alternators for 10-15 amps more than the older stock alternators. Maybe you have an Auto Electric rebuilder close to you and he can rewind your alternator for you, with more power. Hopefully this all helps. Robbie stripped of the mounting brackets and then mounted on the old bracket that will bolt to the floor of the Cruiser. Most of the modern Land Cruisers come with electric seats and may not work very well with these brackets. You will need to add a wiring circuit to accommodate these functions. I would think you would also need to take into consideration the width of the seats, as vehicles have grown wider and the seats in the Land Cruisers seem to have grown wider as well. A couple of Toyota vehicles to consider for the transplant are the Tacoma trucks and 4Runners. These seats may be more to your liking, as they may fit the frame better. I am just guessing here but they seem to have done a different style of seats in these models of vehicles. I hope this has been helpful. Robbie Hello Stacey: I would think about all the devices you are looking to run at one time. Are your current headlamps still stock? If so, they will be about 55 watts on high beam and you have two of those. Radios really do not take that much unless you are creating earthquakes as you are running down the road. Maybe the total radio drain is 120 watts. Blower motor will take a few amps but typically no more than 120 watts (10 amps, 12 volt). Windshield wipers will typically only take about 120 watts as well (like the blower motor). So what else? The running lights, blinkers, maybe another 50 watts of power (10 of them, 5 watts each, way too many, but hey). So I add up about 500 watts of power. A 45-amp alternator will put out that much: 45 X 13.6 to 14.1 volts, 612 to 634 watt of power). Now the battery is the ballast for all of this. If you run too many watts of power off the battery and the alternator cannot keep up, the battery runs down. But when the load is off, the battery charges up. So what I would suggest to you is to add up all the stuff you will be thinking of using, such as, what are the extra lights you are using (best are LED or HID low amp draw)? How much power are they going to use? If you use more than the 612 to 634 watts of power, then I would look at a different alternator. Yes, the Mean Green alternator has a good reputation. But as people have suggested, they typically do not last as long. 100,000 miles vs. 200,000, so how many miles will you put on this Cruiser? I personally would not use the GM alternators that are a close match to the Toyota alternator. They were not built as well as the Toyota alternators of the same vintage and will not last as long either (50,000 miles or less). So for me to suggest what model for you to use, please let me know if the engine is the stock 2F and where the alternator is located on the engine. Lower on the block, passenger side, driver side, more to the top of the cylinder head? If you go to a bigger case, 12 Replacement FJ62 Seat Options Hi Robbie, I have a 1990 FJ62 Land Cruiser that I have maintained and updated over the years. It’s been an amazing vehicle. The one thing I’ve never been particularly impressed with on this vehicle is the front seats. They never offered much support. Even when new, the side bolsters are barely there at all and as they’ve aged, these issues have become worse. In the world of Porsche’s (my other vehicular passion), often parts from one model can be directly bolted on to another model. My question is whether there are any seats from other Toyota’s (particularly newer models), which can be used as a bolt-in replacement for the seats I currently have in place. Thanks! Eric Jones Final Details on an FJ62 Hi Robbie, We have a 1989 FJ62. The ride is very, very rough. Each bump in the road is a jolt through your body. Can you suggest or recommend a good replacement suspension for a 1989 FJ62 with no lift on it? The one last thing that I need is to replace the face of the instrument panel. Someone broke a window (found a replacement for that) and stole the radio while it was at college with our oldest son. In the process of ripping out the stereo, he broke the face of the instrument panel in two. I need to find a replacement face. Do you have any suggestions on where I should look for this part? Thank you! Henry R. Taylor, Member #22,689 Hello Eric: First, I have not really seen many 60 series owners use other seats from other Cruisers. They typically have been Recaro and other aftermarket seat brands. I do agree that the 60 series seats are not very comfortable for long periods of time. As to if some of the newer seats can be adapted, they might be able to, if you remove the mounting brackets from the old seats to adapt to the newer ones. From what I have seen, the brackets are the biggest differences. Most seats have tracks that allow the seat to move back and forth to accommodate the length of a person (some even go up and down as well). This track can be Hello Henry: I have not found a stock height suspension for the 60/62 in a long time. About the only way you can is to have a spring maker fabricate them. I would not suggest they re-arch the springs, as they will just fail quicker. If you really want a stock height suspension, then I will point you in that direction. There may be a spring maker in a bigger city close to you. There is a place in Grand Junction, Colorado, that makes springs: