DanKunz ROTW ***Updated 5/21/2015***
Got some new shoes (37x12.50R16 Irok NDs) and rebuilding the DS front this weekend. Baseline the fluids, and she should be good to go.
***UPDATED 3/23/2009***
My Landcruiser Story:
I got this cruiser in mid-2006.
I bought it from the original owner. A great guy named Robin down in Austin.
I know Robin loved on this truck as witnessed by the leather...it is ten years old
and showroom soft and comfortable...no football leather in this truck!
So here we go...
• 1996 FZJ-80 with 190k.
• Magnaflow turbo catalytic converter
• Dynomax 3 chamber turbo muffler
• OEM locker front.
• Aussie locker in the rear (KISS rule!)
• Warn M12000 Winch with blaze orange superline synthetic rope
• C02 bracket mounted in bed
• Cobra CB and cage mounted antenna
• Safari Offroad Snorkle
• 37x12.50x16 Super Swamper Irok Radials
• Longfield super set in the front axle
• Poly Performance set in the rear axle
• 4:88 Gears
• OME N73Ls
• Slee 4" front coil springs
• Slee 4" heavy rear coil springs
• OME steering damper
• 6" Slee control arms
• Toyota Style CV drive shaft front and rear (2x new now!)
• Slee rear sway bar drop brackets
• Removed front swaybar
• Stainless steel extended brake lines
• Slee adjustable rear upper-control arms
• Slee adjustable front and rear panhard rods
• Rear 2" Bump Stop Drop Blocks
• Front 2" Bump Stop Drop Blocks
• Slee Off-Road front bumper Modified by JKCustoms
• Slee Off-Road rear bumper Modified by JKCustoms (now welded onto frame)
• Slee Off Road Sliders (now welded and U-bolted in place)
• PIAA Flood Lights
• XM Satellite Radio
• Clarion CD/MP3/AM/FM
• Infinity 3-ways all around
• Relocated CDL and hazard buttons to allow for a custom center dash assembly
• Rubberized polyethelene epoxy skin (~1/4" thick on the entire exterior)
• Custom Soft Top
• Chopped top with custom roll cage thanks to ACC!
History of the truck:
Robin bought the truck new from Toyota and decided to build it into an offroader. He called up Christo and outfitted the truck to close to the current state. He has taken it to Moab, around Texas, and most
amazing...he took it to Cambodia for two years!
Robin used the truck as the primary vehicle in working as a volunteer teacher and in the creation of a documentary to be submitted in March of 2007 in the Austin Film Festival with a title of “The Living Fields”. It is the story of the need for education for the children of the 30 year war torn country of Cambodia.
The trip started in 2005 in Penang Malaysia. Robin then drove it the length of Thailand and into Cambodia.
I purchased the truck in 2006, drove it to Atlanta, and have been wheeling it every since. My boys love it and I have really met a lot of folks I have always talked with online but never met.
Plans for the future:
• Dual batteries
• Bed lining the interior
Some historical pictorial fun:
Cambodian pictures:
When I bought it:
The fleet:
As it sat pre-tornado:
Post-Tornado:
Under Construction:
As it sits today:
http://s134.photobucket.com/albums/q95/dankunz/Guacamole/
Wheeling:
River Rock:
Cullowhee:
Gray Rock:
Lithonia, GA (don't tell the cops! ):
Got some new shoes (37x12.50R16 Irok NDs) and rebuilding the DS front this weekend. Baseline the fluids, and she should be good to go.
***UPDATED 3/23/2009***
My Landcruiser Story:
I got this cruiser in mid-2006.
I bought it from the original owner. A great guy named Robin down in Austin.
I know Robin loved on this truck as witnessed by the leather...it is ten years old
and showroom soft and comfortable...no football leather in this truck!
So here we go...
• 1996 FZJ-80 with 190k.
• Magnaflow turbo catalytic converter
• Dynomax 3 chamber turbo muffler
• OEM locker front.
• Aussie locker in the rear (KISS rule!)
• Warn M12000 Winch with blaze orange superline synthetic rope
• C02 bracket mounted in bed
• Cobra CB and cage mounted antenna
• Safari Offroad Snorkle
• 37x12.50x16 Super Swamper Irok Radials
• Longfield super set in the front axle
• Poly Performance set in the rear axle
• 4:88 Gears
• OME N73Ls
• Slee 4" front coil springs
• Slee 4" heavy rear coil springs
• OME steering damper
• 6" Slee control arms
• Toyota Style CV drive shaft front and rear (2x new now!)
• Slee rear sway bar drop brackets
• Removed front swaybar
• Stainless steel extended brake lines
• Slee adjustable rear upper-control arms
• Slee adjustable front and rear panhard rods
• Rear 2" Bump Stop Drop Blocks
• Front 2" Bump Stop Drop Blocks
• Slee Off-Road front bumper Modified by JKCustoms
• Slee Off-Road rear bumper Modified by JKCustoms (now welded onto frame)
• Slee Off Road Sliders (now welded and U-bolted in place)
• PIAA Flood Lights
• XM Satellite Radio
• Clarion CD/MP3/AM/FM
• Infinity 3-ways all around
• Relocated CDL and hazard buttons to allow for a custom center dash assembly
• Rubberized polyethelene epoxy skin (~1/4" thick on the entire exterior)
• Custom Soft Top
• Chopped top with custom roll cage thanks to ACC!
History of the truck:
Robin bought the truck new from Toyota and decided to build it into an offroader. He called up Christo and outfitted the truck to close to the current state. He has taken it to Moab, around Texas, and most
amazing...he took it to Cambodia for two years!
Robin used the truck as the primary vehicle in working as a volunteer teacher and in the creation of a documentary to be submitted in March of 2007 in the Austin Film Festival with a title of “The Living Fields”. It is the story of the need for education for the children of the 30 year war torn country of Cambodia.
The trip started in 2005 in Penang Malaysia. Robin then drove it the length of Thailand and into Cambodia.
I purchased the truck in 2006, drove it to Atlanta, and have been wheeling it every since. My boys love it and I have really met a lot of folks I have always talked with online but never met.
Plans for the future:
• Dual batteries
• Bed lining the interior
Some historical pictorial fun:
Cambodian pictures:
When I bought it:
The fleet:
As it sat pre-tornado:
Post-Tornado:
Under Construction:
As it sits today:
http://s134.photobucket.com/albums/q95/dankunz/Guacamole/
Wheeling:
River Rock:
Cullowhee:
Gray Rock:
Lithonia, GA (don't tell the cops! ):
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