With the frigid weather and people recovering from the holidays, we've got some opening in our schedule. We just sent out an email blast to our mailing list offering a 10 percent discount on repairs. I thought I'd post it here as well. If you've got work you've been putting off give us a call...
If you’re looking for an insanely fun turbo Land Cruiser you’re in the right place. If you’re looking for a comfy daily driver, I’d keep looking. I built this truck as an exercise in what you could do with a rough starting point, elbow grease and a lot of parts. It wasn’t built for comfort...
We're clearing out a bunch of the random bad but not bad enough to throw out parts. The scrap man is coming either Tuesday or Thursday next week. Figured I'd throw it out there in case anyone wanted to scrounge through the pile first. We're here 8ish to 5ish M-F
We've been super busy lately and I've been slacking with updates here and YouTube videos. We've been working on undergoing an expansion. Several years ago we filtered our services down to only working on Land Cruisers because we didn't have the space or man power to work on anything else. We...
The rear actuator on my 80 failed and it was far too corroded to rebuild. Rather than spending the money on a new electric actuator I decided to go air. (someone in the past swapped a non locked front axle in to my truck so it's got an ARB there already). I machined out a rough prototype to...
After a long time sitting on the back burner the FJ60 Stainless exhausts are finally ready for release. They use the same proven back half from our FJ62 kit. They're built from 14 gauge 304 Stainless tubing. In standard form it deletes the catalytic converter temp sensor and the air injection...
These have been on the back burner for a while. Finally settled on a design I like and we've done a few installs at the shop to verify fitment. Our kit replaces the horizontal portion of the filler neck that commonly rusts through. It splices in to the vertical portion removing the need to...
A bunch of folks have asked for a video on the 80 Series head gasket. Finally got the chance to start on one. I finished editing part on today. I'll do a reassembly video as soon as I get the head back from the machine shop.
I've never been super happy with the original timing belt videos we did. We had a 4.7 out of a truck this week so I took the opportunity to update the videos while there was an unobstructed view. Just finished part one and should have part two done in the next few days.
I've had several people ask about the crank holding tool I made for torquing the crank bolt on the 1FZ. I ended up redesigning it so that it has a square drive for a breaker bar instead of a welded handle. I figured that way it could go in a flat rate box. I priced out having them cut and I'd...
Folks on the YouTube channel asked for shirts. I finally got around to getting the logo in the correct format. Figured I'd stick the link here as well in case anyone was interested. OTRAMM | StoreFrontier
I grew tired of modifying off the shelf flanges to fit the 3FE manifolds when building down pipes. I finally drew up a factory flange (except with a 2" pipe diameter) and had them water jet cut out of 304 stainless. We use them often enough that I had a batch of them cut. I also had a batch...
I started doing live Q&As on YouTube a few weeks ago. Shooting for doing them each Tuesday at 5PM. You guys should come keep me company online :) It's been slow to get going and I'm not great at talking to myself. If you subscribe to the channel and hit the notification bell it'll let you...
A few weeks ago we started doing a weekly live chat on YouTube. Shooting for doing them each Tuesday at 5PM EST. I haven't really had a structure to them so far. Basically folks just join the chat and ask whatever Cruiser related question they've got. Hopefully I have an answer :). I wanted...
I posted a pre purchase inspection video on the 80 series trucks yesterday in the 80 forum. Last night during the live chat someone asked me if we had an inspection tips video for the 100. We didn't but had one to go over this morning so we recorded it. It's not the end all of everything you...
We get a bunch of Cruisers through the shop for post purchase inspections. A lot of them come in with overlooked maintenance items and the need for expensive repairs. We had a 93 in the shop today for an inspection so I thought I'd shoot a quick video and point out the main things we look for...