Hey Ladies & Gents,
New to this forum. Just found a lightly used 1999 LX470 in nice condition. I live in Panama so I don’t know how many of these there are around but it was a single owner from new. US spec and imported. Toyota Le is dominate the market here and are easiest to find parts.
So the driving here whether you are on dirt or pavement, is an off road adventure. On 100km/h paved road, you can find holes that will break your vehicle. And speed bumps on fast speed limit roads that you technically can’t hit at more than 5km/h.
I was hoping not to completely rebuild this truck as it has good bones, but I wanted to do a long travel suspension with fairly big tires that can handle anything I hit. Body roll on curves I don’t really care about. I’d rather this this ride like a Baja truck.
If done a little bit of looking around and got some emails back from vendors with no real luck. One even said that nobody manufactures such a thing for this model.
Am I kinda looking to have to do this all custom shop? I mean, labor here is cheap and can probably just give this to a suspension and wheel shop, but the technical expertise isn’t so good here and they tend to do stuff inadequate and Mickey Mouse when it comes to building stuff.
Any ideas would be super appreciated. Thanks in advance and I look forward to being part of this community.
Ian
New to this forum. Just found a lightly used 1999 LX470 in nice condition. I live in Panama so I don’t know how many of these there are around but it was a single owner from new. US spec and imported. Toyota Le is dominate the market here and are easiest to find parts.
So the driving here whether you are on dirt or pavement, is an off road adventure. On 100km/h paved road, you can find holes that will break your vehicle. And speed bumps on fast speed limit roads that you technically can’t hit at more than 5km/h.
I was hoping not to completely rebuild this truck as it has good bones, but I wanted to do a long travel suspension with fairly big tires that can handle anything I hit. Body roll on curves I don’t really care about. I’d rather this this ride like a Baja truck.
If done a little bit of looking around and got some emails back from vendors with no real luck. One even said that nobody manufactures such a thing for this model.
Am I kinda looking to have to do this all custom shop? I mean, labor here is cheap and can probably just give this to a suspension and wheel shop, but the technical expertise isn’t so good here and they tend to do stuff inadequate and Mickey Mouse when it comes to building stuff.
Any ideas would be super appreciated. Thanks in advance and I look forward to being part of this community.
Ian
