Recent content by MattOOTO

A few more pictures.

Howdy, everyone. My wife and I just finished living in this truck for ~3 years as we drove through North/Central/South America. We are selling "Wilbur" our 2001 Toyota Land Cruiser with ~250,000 miles (400,000 km). It's ready to continue on another overland adventure and you'll have everything...

Hello all. I believe the starter on my LC is starting to fail; my suspicion is the flywheel is somehow not disengaging after the engine is started. Or something along those lines. Here's the symptoms; 1) ~10 days ago, when starting the vehicle, the starter whirred/buzzed/etc like normal but...

He said he hadn't seen it in a LC specifically but other vehicles (they are one of two specialized shops in Santiago who do high performance/racing/offroad/etc) with traction control/ABS it is something they have seen a few times. The lock spring replacement seems relatively cheap/easy to do...

I've had the sensors checked again, and also had the tie rods checked. No issues there. However, the shop I went to is pretty sure they know exactly what the issue is. I'm skeptical, but curious what folks here thought. He said he is certain it is the clock spring in the steering column not...

I've done that, didn't make a difference. Thanks tho! Lots of great info! The steering rack mountings were replaced with poly. I've had the sensors checked (and just checked them again myself) and no issues there. The wheel bearings were tightened in La Paz, they were a bit loose; but may...

That's what I'm expecting also, seems to be a number of slightly different situations. The locking brake is definitely the most annoying part, but at least I know how to prevent it from happening. Steering rack is my main culprit now, given the issues only started happening after all of the...

Hello all. Apologies for a long post, but this issue has taken up many hours of my time (including reading hundreds of posts and links from here) and I wanted to be as thorough as possible in describing the issue and background. First a quick & dirty summary: my 2001 LC (~240k miles) has...

I haven't had any issues yet. That said, I haven't done any rock climbing or anything too severe. I have done at least 1000 miles of s***ty dirt/gravel/rutted/muddy/non-pavement roads (with plenty of regular pavement) with lots of severe elevation changes and a few potholes I didn't avoid...

Resurrecting an old thread to offer another big thanks to all the contributors on this forum. A few months ago I finally finished everything on the LC and it's been working out really well for us. Currently we've been enjoying Mexico for a couple of awesome months and are slowly continuing...

My wife and I have set up a drawer system and we sleep on top of it. We've had it fully complete for about 3 months, 5k miles and about 60-70 nights total spent sleeping inside. Has worked great so far! There's a bit of a lack of head-room with our setup, but it's very cozy and with some...

The solar is for the single battery, yes. I am planning to keep the primary battery isolated and charge it via alernator only. As for the battery itself, I need to check again. I thought that I had seen a 200ah that would fit in the truck (I don't recall the model, need to double check), but...

And I'm glad that I could get a vehicle such as this for such a great price (~9k)! From my perspective it's really a mathematical decision once my wife agreed the LC was acceptable from an aesthetics perspective. It's very difficult to beat the LC in terms of value for money, considering the...

The total is a bit less than 2k AUS. This includes drawers, fridge slide, extension to cover the 2nd row seating area and table. However, because I was lucky with the timing of my order I got a really big discount on shipping to US (I don't think it's even something Drifta does on a regular...

Hello all. I've been lurking on this forum for a couple of months now and am extremely grateful for all of the excellent information I've been able to find here. It's been invaluable in getting my LC sorted out. I'm getting close to finalizing all of the major areas, but there are still a...