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Went on a 3 day 2 night camping trip with 2 other fellow landcruiser owners, a 100, 200 and my 80. First leg of the trip was from the gas station to chelan Washington, 180 miles, fuel alcohol content level was at 55%. Drove up through stevens pass up 4,061 feet though leavenworth Washington then to chelan, was able to manage an astonishing 13.4 mpg on that leg of the trip. Truck was loaded full for the trip with me and my son, I'd say right at 6k lbs as the truck weighs 5600 empty with a full tank of gas and no spare, now I have a spare, 5 gal of extra fuel, camping gear and a thule box on top. Leg 2 was the off road portion, 120 miles total and up 3 different peaks. We climbed up and traversed a ridge at 6500 feet to our first camp spot at shady pass. Spent the night there, drove down the mountain to ardenvior, wa where we topped up gas. We then drove up to sugar loaf peak, elevation 5794 ft. Explored a bit then headed across Entiat ridge and climbed back up to chumstick mountain elevation 5810 feet. We headed down and found a nice valley to camp and do some shooting in. Next day we headed down to leavenworth for breakfast before heading home. The offroad portion I managed 10.3 mpg. Picked up a bunch of pinstripes dirt and mud nothing to technical but definately flexed the suspension out on washed out portions of trail. It was a fantastic trip, even in the mid 80s in the valley the truck never saw above 188 even when crawling slow, with the ac on. Oil temps saw 217 at the hottest point that was actually climbing up grades on the road going 75 ish. Truck performed flawless.
.. did a couple of cool camps, nothing too crazy but I got to do some beach/sand driving on the coast here, and that was pretty fun! No issues so far with the rig just been running pretty flawless so far. Winter projects will probably just consist of making an airbox for so I can draw cooler air from the fender area, some fluid changes all around, and possibly hitting all the rubber gaskets and plastic trim and stuff I have stored away. I'm kind of torn on the rubber/plastics though. Part of me wants to save them if I paint the truck one day, but the other part of me doesn't want to even paint it and make it perfect as it might make me not want to use it and destroy a nice paint job.
. And replace it with this immaculate 2014 starfire pearl on black LX570, fully loaded as most are.. we are very happy.
but then I read your happy news. Great job on the build, buddy!
but it is what it is, im super happy with it. I've worked at dealerships before so I know how they run, like I said they made the process easy. I only saw one gx550 that was being delivered so I couldn't really take a good look at it. Michelle said allocations are hard to get or take a while, probably due to the supply chain stuff that has been happening in the last few months/years. Even the delivery process was thorough, spending as much or as little time as I wanted going over things. So in the end I highly recommend them. 
! Good luck!
. Since my cruiser already caused my divorce, I don't have to hide anything this time...
The trail is only 33 miles long.
