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Valley Hybrid in Stockton, CA is the ideal shop to maintain and work on diesel Landcruisers. We have a 60 series, 2 40 series and an 80 series that they were involved in converting to diesel and currently on a 70 series. I've worked with them for the last 15 years and can not say enough good things about them. Georg @orangefj45 who runs the shop is my guru.
It's extremely difficult to find one of these that's importable and not completely trashed in Saudi. They really use them hard. I got very lucky with this one as it was owned by a gas company and I suspect it only saw road miles with some light cargo or maybe just one person most of the time. The passenger seat has little to no wear at all.
Love to see it. I’m in Palo Alto building this troopy.
Shifting with the left hand comes pretty natural pretty quickly. The thing that still gets me from time to time is the natural reflex to use your left hand for the turn signals.
At least for a while you’ll have a very clean windshield as you mistakenly grab the windshield wiper stalk instead of the turn signals.
I'm a disaster at the simple stuff now. I split time somewhat equally between driving a black RHD Prado and a black LHD 100 series. If it were just random, I would be wrong 50% of the time, but the number of times on both cars I walk to the wrong side in a parking lot, turn on my wipers instead of blinkers, or fiddle with the wiper interval level instead of turning on the lights is shocking. My brain is subconsciously doing things wrong on purpose because I go to the wrong side most of the time, regardless which car I'm in.At least for a while you’ll have a very clean windshield as you mistakenly grab the windshield wiper stalk instead of the turn signals.
There is a 4 way stop not far from my house that is a favorite of law enforcement for sobriety checks. I rolled through there one night and stopped awaiting my turn to be checked (I was number 3 in the lineup). I looked up and saw one of the officers working his way down the left side of the vehicles and when he got to me, shined his flashlight on what was obviously an empty seat. He immediately starting shining his flashlight into the surrounding woods while talking on his radio. (I’m assuming he thought he had a runner).
There is a 4 way stop not far from my house that is a favorite of law enforcement for sobriety checks. I rolled through there one night and stopped awaiting my turn to be checked (I was number 3 in the lineup). I looked up and saw one of the officers working his way down the left side of the vehicles and when he got to me, shined his flashlight on what was obviously an empty seat. He immediately starting shining his flashlight into the surrounding woods while talking on his radio. (I’m assuming he thought he had a runner).
Within a few seconds two other officers joined him also shining their flashlights into the surrounding woods. With all 3 standing there I tapped my horn and watched all of them bend down and look in the window. I then asked them if they wanted to see my drivers license and the first officer simply told me to go.
I am also in West Texas (Midland) with my PZJ77
