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I recently started restoring my dads old 1988 Hj75 ute to its former glory. The body is extremely rusty, and currently doesn’t have a roof on it, but the engine is in surprisingly good condition, (nothing can kill an old 2H engine). Yesterday and today i got to work stripping the interior and...

Hello all, I'm a new member to MUD, but I’ve had a few Toyota’s in the last few years. My passion started when I test drove a base model 1986 Toyota pickup. Single cab, short bed, 5 speed. 4x4. 22r. I then moved on to a 3rd gen 4runner. I currently own a 1985 Toyota pickup Xtra cab 4x4 and a...

Haters of Mud, Wanted to introduce y'all to "Kiboko," our 2021 Toyota Land Cruiser in Magnetic Gray Metallic on Black. "Kiboko" is Swahili for hippopotamus, and I thought that was a pretty dead on name for this ~6000lb gray tool/toy which will spend a good part of its life wallowing in water...

Just now starting to build out my GX since purchasing about a year ago. The goal is to go for more of an OEM + look and functionality as this will be 90% road/10% off road rig. It took me about 3 months to find exactly what I was looking for: 05' Non Nav - Darker Interior - 125k Stopped for...

A little history... I’ve owned a couple FJ40s, an LX470, grew up riding in my folks’ FJ62, and now... I have an 80-series. I’m mechanically so-so, and lazier than most people, and don’t know how to weld. I have good friends, and I’m good at looking stuff up on the internet (especially here)...

NOLA; a build story Hello Mudders! I have now owned my second cruiser for three years so I decided to finally put together a build thread. I'm writing one in part because this community is so freaking knowledgeable and has helped me fix so many things on my own truck that I would like to see...

Hello! I'm Charlie. I have been snooping around on here for a while but thought it would make sense to get a build thread up, just to keep track of progress! I bought a Silver 1998 VZJ95, a Japanese import, with 115,000km in Vancouver in June and have been having loads of fun with it. It's my...

After a bit of a break, I'm back working on my FJ40. My first build thread was here: First Thread. I have a bunch planned and I decided that I should post my progress here and get some help before making some bad decisions on the second phase. First, I'll update where I'm at. After spending...

So last saturday (12/12/20) I bought my first truck, I flew from Ohio to Alabama bought it and drove it back. Im 15 and cant even drive until March when I get my licsense, so I know almost nothing about cars. I plan on using it as a day to day car to drive and in the future I plan on using it...

Huge thanks to our family, wheeling family including Dave's Off Road Supply, WFO Concepts, Off Road Design, East Coast Gear Supply, and Bill Griiffith - Verb Precision Machine for helping to make this dream project happen. This is pretty surreal. In ways it seems like just yesterday, other ways...

Been wanting a small overland trailer for a while. I want something that I can leave in the garage loaded and ready to go (moving to CO in June and will have the opportunity to spend a whole lot more ducking the office and running to the mountains). I want to mount my RTT on it, have a decent...

Hey folks, I rolled over 200,000 earlier this year. I’m wanting to dig into some deeper type PM stuff as the ODO continues to creep up. I’ve addressed most of the usual suspects: - Rebuilt front axle - Replaced valve cover rubber - PHH - new suspension bushings (only item I didnt do myself) -...

This one doesn't have a name yet either :LOL: The blue truck has been great, but it has 80k on it with multiple cross country trips, so it's time someone else enjoys it. So it's now owned by one of our sales guys (Corey if you have seen him in any of our videos) and he's stoked. So the new...

Figured this would be a better place than any other to document my cruiser, so here it is. Coming from a jeep background, I've wanted a 100 series since i could remember, just never could afford one lol Well, in August 2020, i finally picked one up! Little background on how i acquired this...

Hey all, I picked up the 80 mid September, since then I've managed to get most of the PM done, and a few mods already! looking forward to many years of fun in this thing this is just going to be me posting all the things I end up doing to it so I can keep track I've owned a few different...

Table of Contents (Because who really wants to read the whole thing? Not everything is linked - just things that might be helpful to future readers, or milestones in the build, such as it is) 1. Intro and Background 2. Rust inspection (yikes!) 3. Stereo Install 4. Inner Wheelwell treatment 5...

This thread is more about documenting what I have and what I do with her over the years. Always welcome comments, questions, concerns, and inputs. This was originally built by @hatfieldcb in 2007/2008 timeframe and he took it to Moab and Rubicon. I was fortunate to acquire in June 2019 with...

(LONG POST INCOMING Had this truck for a little bit, but now we are finally getting into the rebuild of ol' Leroy. I purchased Leroy in the fall of 2018 from Salida, CO. Found it on craigslist for a fair price and decided to take a better look at it because ya know, Colorado desert means no...

In October of 2017 I sold my diesel Hilux. By November seller's remorse was pretty acute and I was desperate for another 4x4. @AirheadNut was selling a fully optioned HDJ81 VX Limited recently imported from Canada. This thing had all the bells and whistles: triple lockers, center console...

A few years ago I got a call close to midnight from a friend asking me if I wanted to go in 50 /50 on an LV. The numbers being thrown around were too rich for me and being an eBay auction, time was against us to arrange the funds and who knew what it would end up at. So told him I'm in but he...