Custom HZJ79 from parts, built in the US! (11 Viewers)
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Nice! Congrats on the new buggy. One day I will have a high roof troopie. 
Installed hubs yesterday.
Many thanks to beno for being such an awesome parts resource!
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hello dear ,
I have some questions about aisin free wheel hub :
Where can I buy it from ?
Is it fitting 2007 FZJ79 4500EFI ?
Is it fitting 2010 FZJ79 4.0 V6 ?
Is it fitting 2004 FZJ100 4500EFI ?
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many thanks
I'm a little late to this post. Very cool!!! Looking forward to UPO 12!!
Very nice work. And allot of work at that. Would it have KILLED Toyota to have offered us that truck here in North America???????????????????????????????????
Are you sure it's the truck, Sean? How would you explain the people staring and waving when you're walking?
yooper
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Are you sure it's the truck, Sean? How would you explain the people staring and waving when you're walking?
That's more like the stare when you see a horrible accident and can't look away.
The waving is just flailing from the sudden nausea; they often vomit shortly afterwards.
Has anyone ever told these bastards in Japan to give us what we WANT???
We tried that about 70 years ago and it got kind of messy.
If you can convince maybe 25K of your friends to buy a vehicle designed in the 1980's for say $60K new off the lot, then I think someone in Nagoya will listen to you.
yooper
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I could get a couple dozen here in my small town in Michigan, home of GM and Ford. This is a blue collar, uneducated community, the place you'd expect to be the last bastion of buying only American made vehicles. People are coming out of woodwork to ask me about my truck and how they can get one, all day, every day, nearly every time I stop for gas or park in a store lot.
Are Japanese built pickup trucks still subject to a 20% tariff? If so, that's what kills it.
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It is considered "bad form" to curse the people who make the parts you may some day need.
......1978HJ45
While I have no doubt your Cruiser is "way cool" ( they all are in my opinion ), it is human nature to want what you can't have and then when everyone gets one they are no longer as desirable.
My HJ75 pickup gathers a crowd everywhere I go however when these same people realized it did not have leather, 6 speaker sound system, navigation and dvd, and all of the other creature comforts the appeal would quickly fade.
.....1978HJ45
yooper
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While I have no doubt your Cruiser is "way cool" ( they all are in my opinion ), it is human nature to want what you can't have and then when everyone gets one they are no longer as desirable.
My HJ75 pickup gathers a crowd everywhere I go however when these same people realized it did not have leather, 6 speaker sound system, navigation and dvd, and all of the other creature comforts the appeal would quickly fade.
.....1978HJ45
I'm seeing quite the opposite. The more I tell them about it the more they like it. These guys want a basic diesel truck that won't break, they can take to their hunting cabin without getting stuck, and isn't freaking huge.
Mine does have a 4 speaker sound system, navigation and DVD though.
Those things are pretty easy to add. I could have had leather too but I chose vinyl/fabric upholstery.
Well so much for my theory
......1978HJ45
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justbecause
perpetually lost.
I can see building these one at a time costing that much...
but what goes into this truck to make it so expensive??
When I was at profffits they told me the one I was looking at was decked out to over 80k but I could get one for as low as mid 20k if I went gas, and mid 30k for a diesel.....
There you go. You can have one then.
Michigan might be the birthplace, but not really their home anymore. They've
in their own bed enough to the point where it is barely habitable. Japanese currency is what really kills it. If they were made here (with domestic parts), they would be very affordable.What are u saying?
