New to Land Cruisers, Not Toyotas

[MrMoose]

I introduced myself a while ago while I was in Afghanistan. Well I'm finally back and have done most of the work I intend to do on the truck.

Final details:
1992 Land Cruiser
5.29 gears
ARB lockers F/R
4" Ironman Lift
35" MTRs (old style!)

Also installed a new stereo as well as a CB radio.

It's still a bit slow but it drives well. Still need to replace the steering damper as I'm pretty sure it's the factory original.

Look forward to meeting some of you, hopefully at this months meeting. From the website, it looks like it's held at Larry H. Miller on Motorway? Is that still accurate?

Looking forward to any input you have to make this more capable. Haven't had a chance to take it out, but hoping to get it out before I leave to Virginia for 2 months.

On to the pictures...

 

[Fitzgerald]

Great looking 80!

We're actually meeting at Redline Land Cruisers now:

Red Line Land Cruisers at 1050 Ford St.

Link to map:

http://goo.gl/maps/gvWWz


Hope to see you there!

 

[MrMoose]

Still the third Tuesday at 7?

If so, I'll be there!

 

[Springs505]

Great looking 80!

Still on for the third Tuesday at 7. Some of us like to have a beer at rocky mountain brewery at 6 before the meetings.

 

[Springs505]

Not sure if you drove it with stock gears and 35s? I'm curious what sort of difference the 5.29s made. Mine is pretty terrible up hill and I have been trying to decide between gears or maybe a motor swap someday.

 

[MrMoose]

Love Rocky Mountain Brewery. Generally go there atleast once a week.

Never drove the truck with 35's and stock gears. Have a feeling it would really be a dawg though. My motors definitely got some miles on it, so who know how much power it's actually putting out. It revs a bit higher than before, but nothing drastic. I surely don't intend on putting this thing on the freeway. Trails that are really far away and require freeway speeds, this thing will just go behind the PSD.

I'm nowhere near mechanically gifted to do a motor swap, but I would love to have a manual trans with OD in this thing. And ANYTHING with more power.

But for now, I'm happy with life in the slow lane, and the wife is much happier with the 80 than she was with our '87 4Runner.

 

[CO_Hunter]

Dang it, sorry about the bad map info, I will update that link once my computer gets its new OS. Sounds like you are pretty well prepared, looking forward to meeting you.

 

[Springs505]

Love Rocky Mountain Brewery. Generally go there atleast once a week.

Never drove the truck with 35's and stock gears. Have a feeling it would really be a dawg though. My motors definitely got some miles on it, so who know how much power it's actually putting out. It revs a bit higher than before, but nothing drastic. I surely don't intend on putting this thing on the freeway. Trails that are really far away and require freeway speeds, this thing will just go behind the PSD.

I'm nowhere near mechanically gifted to do a motor swap, but I would love to have a manual trans with OD in this thing. And ANYTHING with more power.

But for now, I'm happy with life in the slow lane, and the wife is much happier with the 80 than she was with our '87 4Runner.

Mine is ok until going uphill. It holds 70+ uphill just fine, but 55 uphill is a loosing battle, constantly shifting between 2nd and 3rd slowing down and speeding back up. The gears are just wrong in that speed range...I will live with it for a while since its not a dd.