The wife and I purchased this burgundy 100 back in September to assist in our big move to the PNW and then be her daily from then on out. A few weeks afterwards we had the following done on it:
battery
timing belt
water pump
driver side cv axle
rear axel seals
heater t's
drain/re-fill or replace all fluids
leather seat cleaning and conditioning
In late October we hit the road for a 2,700 mile trip to Oregon towing a (mostly) empty 14' dump trailer. To save weight I took the spare tire out from underneath and rear jump seats and placed them in a sturdier 3/4-ton Ford truck that was towing a completely loaded dumpster trailer #2 - hillbilly style. For the Landcruiser I used a weight distribution hitch to help cope with the ride and all the stuff we loaded into the interior of the LC. The empty dump trailer is roughly around 4,100 lbs empty but is long and rough enough that the weight distribution kit was worth its weight in gold. For a brake controller I rolled the dice and went with the Curt bluetooth controller rather than pay for a bunch of labor to wire up a connection (a trailer plug-in kit was already wired into place yet I was unable to find a spot to attach a brake controller harness
). Me and a buddy hopped in the vehicles and left on a Wednesday at 10 AM local time and were at our new home in Oregon before midnight local time on Friday... we did it in 3 days somehow. After the trip my respect for the LC (and the Ford) grew a TON - especially considering how rough some of the miles were. Thought I would share!
battery
timing belt
water pump
driver side cv axle
rear axel seals
heater t's
drain/re-fill or replace all fluids
leather seat cleaning and conditioning
In late October we hit the road for a 2,700 mile trip to Oregon towing a (mostly) empty 14' dump trailer. To save weight I took the spare tire out from underneath and rear jump seats and placed them in a sturdier 3/4-ton Ford truck that was towing a completely loaded dumpster trailer #2 - hillbilly style. For the Landcruiser I used a weight distribution hitch to help cope with the ride and all the stuff we loaded into the interior of the LC. The empty dump trailer is roughly around 4,100 lbs empty but is long and rough enough that the weight distribution kit was worth its weight in gold. For a brake controller I rolled the dice and went with the Curt bluetooth controller rather than pay for a bunch of labor to wire up a connection (a trailer plug-in kit was already wired into place yet I was unable to find a spot to attach a brake controller harness
). Me and a buddy hopped in the vehicles and left on a Wednesday at 10 AM local time and were at our new home in Oregon before midnight local time on Friday... we did it in 3 days somehow. After the trip my respect for the LC (and the Ford) grew a TON - especially considering how rough some of the miles were. Thought I would share!
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. It worked in a pinch but it would constantly lose connectivity (it would still send power to the brakes when it cut out as the unit is able to resort to last saved settings) and I wouldn't be able to use the manual assist (which was literally a button in the app and I used it a lot) until the connection was restored. For my purposes it did what it needed to on this trip but if I was hauling more weight I would prefer a hard-wired controller for peace of mind - just my thoughts.
