The wife and I are headed to Oregon! Basic plans are to head to the Columbia gorge and play for a few days, spend a few days in the Portland area, then head down the coast camping for a few nights. We will be taking my Land Cruiser and sleeping on the roof top tent so we shouldn't need much room for...

It was pretty amazing how many people we saw approach the wildlife. And it wasn't just the out of country folks, plenty of US license plates pulled off on the side of the road walking towards the buffalo and elk. Idiots all around!

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Last week the wife and I took a week vacation to Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks. The first five nights we spent camping in Yellowstone and sleeping in the back of Stoffel (my 1989 HJ61). I had my concerns about spending that many nights camping, but everything went AWESOME!! The rig was com...

This weekend the we took Stoffel out on an overnighter in northern Utah. We met up with some of the old FJ Cruiser club members that we used to trail run with and some new folks. The wife, myself, and our friend had a blast with the rest of the group! We took the old transcontinental rail road bed f...

A few updates. The boys at Cruiser Outfitters have had my rig for the past week doing a few upgrades. First installed was the OME lift. Heavy duty plus in the rear and medium duty in the front. I gained just over one inch in the front and 4 inches in the rear! :D They also did a front axle knuckle r...

i somehow missed this whole thread. thats a bitchen piece of offroader. so it has a turbo inline 6 in it? Correct, a Toyota inline 6 cylinder diesel!! :mrgreen: This weekend the wife and I went to Wyoming to pick up her rig and three new bumpers. 2 for her and a front for me. I dropped them off at ...

twisted wrote:damn casey, thats a bad ass rig!!!!

Thanks! It's coming along nicely. I just ordered the front bumper and hope to get it in for the lift in the next few weeks. While it is in for the lift I will have the front axle rebuilt. After that it will be exhaust and cosmetic items!

So, I have been busy upgrading Stoffel. I had custom bumpers and sliders made and installed along with other various little items to keep me busy. The next big upgrade will be the lift and rebuilding the front axle with upgraded chroemoly axle shafts and Birfields. Here are a few pics of the rear bu...

I'm assuming the caps went bad and have been corroding for at least a decade.

This was just posted on a Land Cruiser forum. Holy hell, this is scary!!

For Valentine's day the wife and I decided to take a trip to Capital Reef and try out the new sleep platform. We have been to Capital Reef a bunch of times, but never ventured out to Cathedral Valley. We asked at the visitor center if they thought the campground on top would be full because it was a...

Awesome looking and quality work man!!! I have to give my old man credit for the wood work on the sleep platform. I had a few ideas so I asked him about it. After that we bought some plywood and he took over! It actually worked out pretty good for me. Lol I did however do the wiring for the 12 volt...

Hell yeah should turn out nice. There are a couple of guys on the snowboarding forum I am on that build there vehicles into mobile houses for living like a ski bum in japan for a couple of months chasing powder. As far as lift goes I would suggest ome I am sure you have done your research they offe...

What are you planning to do it? Well, since you asked the intimidate plans are to build it up for camping and off-roading. First I installed a 24 volt to 12 volt converter and added a fuse block to pull all 12 volt power from. The amount of weird ass wiring inside this thing was impressive. There w...

Well, ok then. I will give these a hard look! Any other suggestions or listening impressions of the SX line run off of the HU before I pull the trigger?

i have not used the sx coax's but i have been using a set of these pioneer coax's and they sound great for the money. https://www.parts-express.com/pioneer-ts-d1602r-6-1-2-coaxial-speaker-pair-260w--267-271 or you can step up to these comps for a few bucks more, i have been running these for a few ...

I'm looking for a drop in replacement for some older pioneer speakers in the doors on the HJ. They will be running off of deck power for now. If I do decide to build a system I will replace them with a comp set. So, is anyone using these off of deck power? How do they sound if so? I was hoping to ge...

I just installed a Pioneer AVH-X3700BHS in the HJ61 and installed the Pioneer AVH-X3500BHS out of the Rav4 into the wife's new BJ71 and we love both decks. They both have bluetooth, Sirius XM, and DVD and more options that we will use.

Not as minty as the wife's, but what can you really expect for a 25 year old vehicle?? It has a few issues, but they are cosmetic. It's a solid platform and a great engine. I'm super excited to build this up!!

After months of waiting Stoffel is finally here!! 1989 HJ61 with 166km (about 103k miles) and factory cable lockers. This was purchased from Steve at Land Cruisers Direct. He was great to work with, especially the second time around.:cool: Anywho, this is just the beginning for the wife and I. We pl...

So, the FJ is sold and I am currently waiting for this rig. 1989 Toyota LandCruiser HJ61, 103K miles, factory cable lockers, and a 5 speed manual trans. This is going to be a blast!!

I have a fix for your problem I am not a fan of toggle switches or the radio being left on and having a dead battery so what you need is a Bosch 24 volt relay and wire 24v from your ignition to 86 on the relay ground 85 12v from the fuse box that you put in to 30 on the relay and 87 goes out to you...

Congrats man! I hope everything works out this time!

Thanks again guys for the suggestions! I ended up going with some Rockford's because of the tweet placement: http://a248.e.akamai.net/pix.crutchfield.com/ImageHandler/fixedscale/400/300/products/2013/4/575/x575R14X2-o_angle.jpg Also, they get great reviews on amazon and crutchfield. They should soun...

I've had really good luck with CDT Audio and Image dynamics as far as coaxial's go ...have used both of these (below) ...give it a look unless your looking for a 4" comp set ...then see the last link ...fantastic 4" comp set that won't break the bank and will sound tits off head unit powe...