Feast your eye on this… my newly acquired 1996 HDJ80, with 5 speed manual transmission
This is my third, and hopefully final, Landcruiser
They say third time is the charm and this is essentially everything I wanted when I previously bought what I could afford at the time
Originally that was a 1992 FJ80 with the 3FE I’d had done a few mods, mostly suspension, and rebuilt both axles/birfs myself in a single car garage when I was living in CA. Unfortunately it left my wife stranded one day and it was all downhill from there
Before selling the ‘92 I had been doing better financially and decided to splurge on a 1991 HDJ81. I’ve owned project cars since I was a wee lad and was a diesel mechanic in the navy which is only one more
than a Jiffy lube tech with the added pressure of senior enlisted and officers screaming at you…. I guess not much different than some overweight jiffy lube manager but I digress
Here is the 81 as I bought it SOLD - HDJ81 Boise, Idaho tons of recent work, upgrades too!
- https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/hdj81-boise-idaho-tons-of-recent-work-upgrades-too.1267617/
Unfortunately the unknown/unknowable and Murphy’s law resulted it what I believe to be cracks in the cylinder walls and the 1HDT continues to push coolant into the overflow. I’ll be selling this and someone can take a chance on sleeving it
So a little over 7 years of owning land cruisers and about 7 total camping trips… I camped more out of my wife’s old Hyundai accent than a Land Cruiser over this time… no bueno
This brings us to present day, about 3 weeks ago, 2 weeks before we welcomed our first child into the world, my wife does the unthinkable “why don’t you buy another one, just make sure it runs this time”. You bet your sweet ass I took advantage of her compromised state at the end of the third trimester
Off to the races I went and purchased this bad mama jamma SOLD - Nashville, TN- 1996 HDJ80 LHD Triple-Locked(SOLD) - https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/nashville-tn-1996-hdj80-lhd-triple-locked-sold.1359990/
First impressions? Fantastic truck that seems obviously renovated at some point with the better part of 400k miles on it, it is in just too god of shape for it to be otherwise
Over the last 7 years or so I’ve put a lot of time, parts and money into my land cruisers and it’s time to cannibalize everything I can off of the 81 to put onto the 80
The list off the top of my head are
-beefier rear trailing arms
-2” heavy dobinson lift
-2” delta radius arms
-PDI air box
-PDI front mount intercooler
-Delta center console
-LRA 25 gallon aux tank
-Sliders
-Drawer system
-Sway bar drop brackets
-new-ish Radiator
-Catch can
-Blue sea fuse panel
And much more
Stay tuned
This is my third, and hopefully final, Landcruiser
They say third time is the charm and this is essentially everything I wanted when I previously bought what I could afford at the time
Originally that was a 1992 FJ80 with the 3FE I’d had done a few mods, mostly suspension, and rebuilt both axles/birfs myself in a single car garage when I was living in CA. Unfortunately it left my wife stranded one day and it was all downhill from there
Before selling the ‘92 I had been doing better financially and decided to splurge on a 1991 HDJ81. I’ve owned project cars since I was a wee lad and was a diesel mechanic in the navy which is only one more
than a Jiffy lube tech with the added pressure of senior enlisted and officers screaming at you…. I guess not much different than some overweight jiffy lube manager but I digressHere is the 81 as I bought it SOLD - HDJ81 Boise, Idaho tons of recent work, upgrades too!
- https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/hdj81-boise-idaho-tons-of-recent-work-upgrades-too.1267617/Unfortunately the unknown/unknowable and Murphy’s law resulted it what I believe to be cracks in the cylinder walls and the 1HDT continues to push coolant into the overflow. I’ll be selling this and someone can take a chance on sleeving it
So a little over 7 years of owning land cruisers and about 7 total camping trips… I camped more out of my wife’s old Hyundai accent than a Land Cruiser over this time… no bueno
This brings us to present day, about 3 weeks ago, 2 weeks before we welcomed our first child into the world, my wife does the unthinkable “why don’t you buy another one, just make sure it runs this time”. You bet your sweet ass I took advantage of her compromised state at the end of the third trimester
Off to the races I went and purchased this bad mama jamma SOLD - Nashville, TN- 1996 HDJ80 LHD Triple-Locked(SOLD) - https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/nashville-tn-1996-hdj80-lhd-triple-locked-sold.1359990/
First impressions? Fantastic truck that seems obviously renovated at some point with the better part of 400k miles on it, it is in just too god of shape for it to be otherwise
Over the last 7 years or so I’ve put a lot of time, parts and money into my land cruisers and it’s time to cannibalize everything I can off of the 81 to put onto the 80
The list off the top of my head are
-beefier rear trailing arms
-2” heavy dobinson lift
-2” delta radius arms
-PDI air box
-PDI front mount intercooler
-Delta center console
-LRA 25 gallon aux tank
-Sliders
-Drawer system
-Sway bar drop brackets
-new-ish Radiator
-Catch can
-Blue sea fuse panel
And much more
Stay tuned
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