Thanks everyone for the kind words. Greatly appreciate it.
I quit my "fancy consulting job" and now do Cruiser work full time.
Although this is the 40 Series section, I work on all cruisers. My specialty is year range 1981-2007.
They are not "cruiser specific" shops. I would generalize them as 4WD shops that are willing to work on Land Cruisers.
I believe the 4 shops prior poster is referencing: Daja Automotive, Goodes Offroad, Baertrax, and Tandem.
The shops around the Metroplex are questionable at best. The "big names" in the area are putting out crap work for about the past 2 years, and charge a premium. I have had to help about 10 guys this past year fix jobs that were done wrong.
Examples that come to mind: Engines that were...