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I successfully booked a camping ticket on Wednesday evening.

Welcome Dan, sounds like a great trip in the fiesta. The Adventure Overland Show is this weekend, it’ll most likely be the biggest gathering of all types of Land Cruisers in one place, in the UK. Book a ticket and come and chat Land Cruisers with the guys and girls on the stand, it’ll be the...

Late to the party on this one! Just booked a weekend camping ticket, hope to get there Friday late afternoon ish. Looking forward to catching up with you guys it’s been a while. Be great if I can put the 105 on the club stand, it’s time to put a sign in the window.

Hi is a good friend, known each other since childhood. I trust him, we’re similar and I know he’ll look after it. We’ve camped together many times over recent years as family units, so he knows the truck. It’s better it gets used than stand for 18 months. The front recovery eyes are from Oz...

Not me sadly, no outings in the Cruiser planned for 2020, lockdown and family circumstances have put a hold on Cruiser activities. However, the Cruiser is fresh out of extended winter hibernation, and has gone on its holidays without us! A good friends tow vehicle needs an engine rebuild, which...

Great work Steve (as always), good to see you are back on the road.

For sale is my Autohome Columbus Variant Medium XL hardshell roof tent. Its the special order XL model, so its 2.3m long which is great for taller campers, and the medium size, so its 1.45m wide. This gives great internal space and is the perfect size for a Land Cruiser. I bought the tent...

Excellent news, congratulations. All the best for your continued recovery.

45psi, that’ll knacker it! I always use to lower the tyre pressure in the tyre used to pressurise the Gunson for that reason. As you say the Sealey one is good for that reason, you can pressurise to just enough to do the job and leave it at that, reducing the risk of over pressurising the brake...

Hi Nick, I used a Gunsons Eezibleed for years, but I now use a larger Sealey kit instead. Getting the Gunsons to seal on some master cylinders was the tricky bit (always use rags underneath the master cylinder to catch any leaks, keep the brake fluid off of the paint as it’s a paint stripper!)...

There are kits available to use with a drill to cut the oxidised outer surface of the headlights back to a clear finish, which can be done with the headlight still fitted. One example...

Indeed....my Oz market 105 is a petrol auto, with AC (it can get a little hot in Oz at times) but it does have wind up windows. Chris, clearly we've never met! The 4.5 petrol is similar to the 4.5 in the 80, but not the same. The 80 has a distributor, the 105 has coil packs, so there are...

Andy, I had exactly the same happen to my BFG ATs at approximately 7 years. It gradually got worse and I removed the tyres at age 10 due to heavy cracking around the sidewall joint to the tread and also between the tread blocks to a lesser degree. Towards the end I was concerned that the tread...

No experience with this bumper manufacturer, but the light units look set in a bit far from the corners IMO. It’s best for lights to be as near to the corners as practically possible, so clear directional signals are made, and the lights give an indication as to the width of the vehicle...

Looking good Chris, you do love a build! Enjoy your travels.

Wanda has these heavy duty red front recovery points that FNB 4WD made in Oz. They shouldn’t be too difficult for someone to fabricate.

Hi Ed, at that price it’s got to be worth a look. If it turns out to be worth buying, but the economy turns out to be an issue, would an LPG and valve lube kit be an option? There should be plenty of $ left in the kitty at that price, to pay for a lot of fuel or an LPG kit. Manual 80s over...

Back when I used to use a winch more often I always thought a camera watching the winch drum, that the driver could see whilst sitting in the drivers seat, would have been very useful. That way the driver would be able to see when the rope was winding on unevenly and building up to a dangerous...

I totally disagree with the expansion and I don’t think the general public are aware of its implications on them. Plus the Mayor of London wants to bring the implementation date forward! As far as I’m concerned the Mayor can do what he wants in central London, but expansion to the north and...

You’re probably sorted by now, but when I replaced the alternator on my FZJ105 it was clear that it wouldn’t come out of the top or bottom of the engine bay, so I took it out the side. The 105 has a plastic wheel arch liner that is very easy to remove (it’s in two parts), so I removed this and...

Tom, the Patrol is looking amazing, you can see that a lot of work has gone into making it that good, and a lot of custom fab as well. Top job.

The “current wife” has done well!

Well remembered Nick, I do still have the Drifta kitchen and drawer unit. I don’t know if it will fit in a 120, as I don’t know how the boot space compares to an 80. I’m in two minds as to keep it for future use or to sell.......but everything has a price.

Looks a very nice example, and not something that comes up for sale very often. If the petrol engine doesn’t suit a buyers intended use, and an LPG install (with flashlube) is not desired, a diesel engine conversion could be done. Install a 1HD-t from an 80, rust proof it, and it’ll be a...

There’s no need to swap the entire clock set, source a secondhand clock set, with a working timing belt light reset mechanism, and swap the parts on to yours. I’d this on mine many years ago. The rest mechanism is very fragile, push it hard and it will break. Not a difficult job, just a...

Should make the commute more interesting!

Sounds like I missed a great meet and an excellent turn out of trucks judging by the pics, plus the chance to meet Clive. The resourcefulness of the Land Cruiser owners rescues a weekend from failure and turns it into a success. Well done Trevor and all involved.

Hi Shaun, how does the 80 drive with the new oil in the gearbox? Re the front axle, it may be an idea to see if you can get your hands on a good secondhand axle that could be swapped in, in place of yours. With a full axle rebuild on the cards and possibly a diff rebuild, it could fix a few of...

Hi Jurgen, I never had the need to remove the armrest so I don't know how it was mounted, it does look like one bolt passing into the seat, but what its screwed into I have no idea. There is a post earlier in the thread where Bill suspects the armrest may have originated from a Range Rover, a...

Last new years eve there was a hell of a party going on in the rented house that backs on to my parents property, people were still arriving at 02:30 on new years day, dumping their cars over peoples driveways and blocking all of the side roads. At 03:33, just as my dad was climbing the stairs...

https://newsroom.toyota.eu/toyota-enters-the-next-phase-of-its-european-powertrain-strategy/ Sales of Diesel engined Toyota passenger cars to end in Europe by the end of 2018, fortunately Land Cruisers are classified as 'commercial' by Toyota, and will continue to be available with Diesel...

I remember Dargo, lovely area. Loads of rural firefighting Land Cruisers rocked up when we were there. Have a great trip.

Lovely looking 80, congratulations.

Agreed. I've had a couple of winches from David at Goodwinch and they have done sterling service for many years. Goodwinch give great advice and the aftersales service is excellent, when you want to uprate or improve the winch or accessories. I've always fancied doing David's winching course...

I've seen them with one opening over the back and the other opening over the front, although I'm not sure how easy it would be to fold the front one down with the bonnet in the way, but I'm sure the people that have this set up have the process all ironed out.

As Gary has rightly said, my Oz spec 105 has no O2 sensor or cats. The Oz market at that time must have had lower emmison requirements for new vehicles, you can understand it as emmison electronics adds more to go wrong. The 105 comes from Toyotas rugged side of the range, which is meant for...

Shame to see that the head has cracked, but top marks for effort in getting your 80 into good condition; your work ethic and standards look very good.