Nah, there pretty different mate, the 80 is much wider and its coils all round, whereas the 75 is leafs.
There's a bloke in Tassie putting a whole 55 onto an 80 chassis. Have to shorten the chassis to do that though.
Also doing a disk brake front conversion from a late model FJ45 and hopefully a rear diff from a HZJ75.
Then also looking into putting full 75 series suspension under the beast too.
Reading through posts on that one now, if anyone has some good information on this please send it through :)
Hey guys, thought i'd start a thread to share some bits from my build.
My brother, a few mates and I run small instagram & youtube pages where we post videos and photos of our trips and builds.
My current build is a 1977 FJ55 which I picked up at the start of COVID in Sydney (April 2020).
Ive...
Very interested in doing this to my 1977 FJ55,
Looking at buying a full terrain tamer suspension HZJ75 suspension kit for the car.
What have you guys done for shocks???
Looking at something like this:
https://www.allfourx4.com.au/epages/shop.sf/en_AU/?ObjectID=357567
From what I gather the...