I searched quite a few 100 series to find this beauty. So many had so many problems. I got crazy lucky and found one literally right after it listed on Cars.com. Only had 1 picture and no details. It was a specialty Mercedes dealership in Dallas. They said they only list it to let the exporters know about it and already had 5 call them since these usually get shipped overseas (they won't resell it since they only do Mercedes). I convinced them that a local business owner, Red Dirt Offroad, should get dibs and they let me. Had a mechanic look it over and it was in excellent shape for a hundy with 133k miles. It had been in a minor front fender bender that got into the body molding. Easy fix and the molding I didn't care about since I planned on wheeling this thing. Mechanically and structurally it was in great shape.
I pulled the trigger and the first thing I did was take it to a detailer in Dallas to get a paint restoration job and freshen it all up. Then the heavy mods came. I've tried to be as extensive as I can but know I am missing some things. Most of my receipts and records are in storage since I'm moving in a couple weeks I'll update then.
The original shop that did the install on the gears messed it up in the front. Fortunately a good family friend who is a master mechanic and my go to guy opened a shop and redid everything and it is working top notch now! Just dropped $2500 to get things good to go finally! Well worth it. He wasn't available first go round or I would have (and SHOULD have) used him. The Fathers Wrench in Ft Worth - Bill Jackson. Awesome guy.
Suspension
- Icon stage 3 shocks (remote resi and cdc valved -their top line)
- Total Chaos UCAs,
- ARB torsion bars
- ARB rear springs.
- Timbren extended bump stops
- Metal Tech upper rear trailing arms,
- Rokmen Offroad Pro Series lower rear trailing arms with their lifetime Rokmen EnduroMax™ Bushings
- Rokmen adjustable panhard.
- Slee Extended stainless steel brake lines
- Slee Diff Drop
- Extended front and rear sway bar links
- Full Slee aluminum skid plates (Belly plate steel)
- ARB Sahara front bumper
- ARB Modular Rear bumper with tire swing out
- MetalTech 4x4 sliders
- All new bushings, rubber etc on anything still stock (which isn't much)
- Baertrax Tailgate Storage (Land Cruiser Storage – BAERTRAX)
- Gamiviti Full Rack
- Nitro gear 4.88 gears.
- When the gears were done we upgraded the rear pinion and yolk to the upgraded and stronger splines to match the newer models.
- ARB locker in front.
- TJM air locker in rear (on recommendation from Carl owner at Nitro).
- Big ARB dual Air compressor (can run air tools) CKMTA12 with manifold.
- ARB diff breathers
- ARB Safari Snorkel
- Icon Alloy Six Speed 17" wheels
- Nitto Trail Grapplers 295/70/17
- I've upgraded all OEM lights with LED
- headlights low and high beam
- break lights
- reverse lights
- turn signals
- interior lights
- Also upgraded the turn signal relay to work with lower resistance on LEDs
- 40" Baja Design LED bar - flood/driving combo
- Baja Design Squadrons on rear of rack
- ARB Intensity LED Spot lights on front bumper
- Switch Pros 8100 system for accessory/LED buttons and management (can turn all your LEDs and accessories on and off from your phone or buttons) - Switch Pros - Home)
- All upgraded audio:
- All Infinity reference speakers(component up front)
- Sony xPlod 800 watt 4 channel amp
- Polk MM 10" sub with Rockford Fosgate 500 watt mono amp
- Pioneer Avic 7100-NEX.
- Has bluetooth,
- Car Play,
- Reverse camera,
- DVD entertainment,
- Phone microphone etc
- Slee Dual Battery tray with compressor mount
- TMax dual battery system.
- Optima yellow top starting battery
- Walmart marine secondary (had a yellow top before but I killed it leaving things on and lost my receipt so I couldn't warranty it - don't do that!)
- Bearcat 880 CB Radio
- Labrak rear antenna mount
- Warm M12000 winch,
- ARB Rear swing out high lift mount
- 48” hi lift
- Hi lift base for loose surfaces
- Maxtrax
- Spare OEM CV Axle
- ARB Tire Repair Kit
- (some other items I'll include later)
- Weathertech Mats
- All new brakes (pads and rotors)
- All new OEM wheel bearings
- New parking brakes and cable
- Two brand new OEM CV Axles
- Timing belt and water pump don't need to be done until 210k miles
- All new fluids all around.
- All new coil packs and iridium spark-plugs (all 8)
- new head cover gaskets and new gaskets for coils pack
- new pcv valve
- new fuel filter
- new and upgraded heater Ts
- oil has been done with mobile 1 since I've had it
- Brand new OEM rack and pinion with the upgraded super poly pro bushings
- All new bushings for sway bars
- New bushings in lower a arms.
- Pinion angle adjusted and drive shafts greased
- Brand new OEM tilt motor and telescope motor for steering wheel
- New completely refurbished steering wheel
- New OEM A/C blower motor
- all new OEM hoses
- all new OEM pulleys (idler, tensioner etc)
- All new door lock actuator motors
- • See these links for instructions
- ○ FJ100 Landcruiser Door Lock Actuator Motor Swap Instructions
- ○ Door Lock Actuator Replacement
LED Puddle lights ( LX Puddle/Courtesy Lights LED strip upgrade )
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