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Howdy Gang. I finally took the plunge and joined the forum after hanging out and reading/learning for the past couple months. Specifically joined because I just started an adventure with a 2000 LX so that my wife and I could have, well, adventures. A little background: I’ve been intermittently...

Hi all, after lurking and voraciously consuming all the amazing content in these forums I'm taking the plunge to do my first forum post as what I hope turns out to be a build thread :poof: While new to MUD I'm not new to overlanding, having traveled a lot of Africa in an old Series iii 109...

I’ve always been a 60-Series fan, but @HemiAlex really got me hooked when he let me drive his FJ60 last year! Since then, I’ve been searching for an ‘85-87 due to the easier H55 swap, and finally decided to pull the trigger on an ‘86 FJ60 with 224,000 miles. It’s got lots of bondo, but the...

Here is my 1990 Prado (LJ78). Have had her for about 8 years now. It's got an arb bull bar I scavanged from a junk yard that came with 9.5 warn winch, mounted the Led bar on it just this year, been using seal beam.lights and a roof bar before mostly. The left seal beam keeps fusing so I am...

My 1991 hdj81 I imported is getting a transplant! Rewind about a year, I had that bent timing belt idler on my california vacation. Replaced, ran great. I started noticing a slight bearing noise about 8 months later but it never got loud or bad. fast forward x amount of time, I was driving up...

I've spent countless hours reading the amazing builds of so many others here on MUD that I finally think that with the whole situation around the world I should probably spend my down time and put my 2 cent into the jar. Acquiring the Cruiser Backstory: So at this time, I am 17 and it's 2018...

Hey y’all, usually not one for build threads but hoping to add to the community some. Will recap the last few months over a few posts. Really happy with how this thing is coming along so far! Dec 2019. First day home after picking it up from the dealer. Was passively in the market for a while...

Picking up this bad boy this weekend for $1500. No rust, underside is looking pretty mint for being a Arkansas/Missouri truck. Anyone have any recommendations for a carb rebuild kit? 22R 5 speed?

2014- Prior to Tear Down

Well after lurking and drooling for years, I am excited to be starting my own build thread. This isn’t my first 40 but it might as well be. My first car at 15 was a blue ‘74 that had been rolled. My dad said he would match what I saved knowing I couldn’t save much! I saved up $300 bucks and...

She whispered “I’m alive” today for the first time in twelve years... As sweet a sound to my ears as honey’s taste to an emergent spring’s bear. Her frame-off restoration is nearing completion - interior is planned, and weatherstripping is being figured. But this weekend she purred - and then...

Here is my build thread for a 1991 3FE FJ80 Land Cruiser. I'll be using this thread mainly as a build and maintenance log (at least for the halfway informative and interesting stuff), re-documenting my questions I have along the way and information I found helpful to address those questions...

Well my first Cruiser is base lined now, so I suppose I should start a build thread as the fun mods begin. After trading in my 15' Tundra Platinum my garage was without a Toyota for 2 years. Then I went down the Land Cruiser YouTube rabbit hole, which let me to google and finding Mud. After a...

I own a 1985 FJ60 2F that for the better part of the last 25 years has been a “seasonal” vehicle used as the primary vehicle at my in-law’s vacation home near Glacier National Park and more recently as my hunting/camping truck in Bloomington, Indiana. As my daughter will earn her license in...

I bought this from the original owner last weekend. I have all receipts from the last 37 years. I knew of this truck 25 years ago (worked with the guy) and it has sat since 2012 un-driven, mostly stored indoors. Was repainted a different color years ago - started life as metallic gray. Now, it's...

1986 Toyota Pickup Standard Cab, Standard Bed, 2WD, 22R, 4 Speed. So, I have never done a build thread before, or even posted on this forum, so I figured I'd dive right in. I'm sure people love seeing new builds, and it'll be good for me to help keep track of my own progress. I have typically...

This past summer, I had a number of encounters while out on the road that made me realize that a low-slung Miata was not the ideal camping vehicle. While it's an absolute joy to drive, my '90 just wasn't cutting it as a camping vehicle. Nor was my Mazdaspeed 3. It got really frustrating trying...

Hey folks, welcome to the tales of Cara the Cruiser. I bought Cara off an old widow in October 2019 at 172,000 miles and have had all sorts of adventures and struggles. I had very little experience wrenching before but a lot of appetite and desire to learn. It's been a grand time learning how...

It is finally time to start a build thread. I purchased a 1978 FJ-40 in 2011 fully intending to rebuild it at the time. Up until now other projects have gotten in the way. When I bought it my wife thought it was just as rusty as "Mater", the tow truck from cars. The name has somehow stuck. This...

Hi All, Short introduction to the 40- & 55-Series Tech: I’m Yves from the Netherlands, I’m an electronic engineer and am an electronic engineer with my own company. As most on here I love Land Cruisers and am the owner of a Land Cruiser HDJ100 with the 1HD-FTE 4.2L turbo engine. I use it as...