Unstoppable Land Cruiser 80 Build Episode 6. Budget Offroad Build.
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2023
- What a crazy two weeks!
It took many long days to get this ready for the ONX Build off but as you will see in the video... it moves!
I'm so excited to get this on the trail and use it instead of working on it.
This Land Cruiser 80 isn't done. We still need a few things like hydro assist and transfer case gears but it's so nice to wheel a little in the meantime.
Enjoy the video!
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The level of professionalism here is evident. Nate and Dave have approached this build like the pros that they are. And while the truck’s name is Dumpster Fire, it is anything but. Beautiful work.
Absolutely! Not sure how his vote count is so low. This thing is insanely capable and the build is unreal!!!
Nate, great work sir. Got all my votes for sure.
Absolutely perfect timing. Just woke up on a nice Sunday morning sipping my coffee. Then you upload a video. Great start to the morning
Literally same
Exactly, I barely started my coffee and scratched my sac when I saw it on 👍
I run 40s for 4 years all stock axles rock crawling and mud bogs and I still drive it on the road weirdos I been doing this for 18 years when people use to scoff at us with a lift on a 80 lol
My vote is to keep it like a solo camp rig setup kinda like we all had before wife and kids! I miss the easy days of camping and just throwing in a cooler, tent, sleeping bag and a bag of clothes!
Out of the three competitors, I believe your build is the most repeatable for the "average builder." I think this is a HUGE benefit to most and I'm excited to see the end result.
Win or lose, great job sir!
Yup. I feel like the other builds aren’t in the spirit of the competition as much.
No way I could replicate that level of attention to detail in the bodywork
@@TheAnimal191 the body work is time consuming but not that complicated really
Factory gets it done Yota wasnt playing with the 80 series.And the beef up on LCAs is spot on.
of the 3 builds this one is the one I'd want! Very capable but also very daily driver!
As an 80 owner, I love what you are doing with this LX. Re storage, the interior of the tail gate is perfect for recovery gears because it is so easy to get to. I keep my rear seats since it is my daily driver, but I built a platform at the same height as my rear seats when seat backs are folded down, then place plywood over the platform and rear seats; with a 4" memory form on top, it is a very comfortable bed when I take it for camping trips.
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Finally a wheeling video of the @muddybeard WJ! Lol
I would say builder for a single. You have the Land Rover to do family trips with.
But I will say this. You can do a 3 seat setup for the regular and still have a bed platform. You could even make the rear (3rd) seat removable and have the rest of the platform fold flat so you can do a platform for father son wheeling trips.
You are a Samurai sword-making master for cars.
I'm not a Toyota guy, but after spending 2 weeks driving one of these around San Diego recently, I fell in love. I think this is probably the best 4x4 Toyota has ever or will ever make, and the best all-around do it all 4x4 that one can build.
Love the Steve Irwin toyota Commercial 😂😂 he always made things entertaining 2:30
I’d personally do a rooftop tent. Put the rear seats back in. Then behind the back seats make a pull out drawer
System. That way you can bring the family, camp, and stay organized.
Nate, you may want to consider upgrading the steering shaft to a 105 series shaft. It's much beefier, but fits in the regular 80 series steering box. All the part numbers are available through Toyota, and a whole kit is available through Wit's End.
Great job teaching the kiddo! Great dad! ! !
The crew cab S10 is cool.
That drop down tailgate has a bunch of room for recovery gear. Some laser cut templates, a few hinges and rivnuts and you get a nice place to store recovery gear.
Several on the market, mine is a huracan from Oz
Huracan Fabrication has a kit to make that tailgate into a storage compartment with a latchable, hinged door. I also use it for recovery gear
Definitely the best, realistic daily use and off road. The real thing
You have two family offroad builds...the Gladiator and the Land Rover. I say make this a solo rig and build a platform with drawers all the way to the front seats so you can store all your stuff. I built a drawer for the back of my Sequoia and I love it. Great build.
The first 5 minutes is absolutely solid.
Great video! It was awesome seeing Mr. Muddy Beards and his truck on this video. Definitely digging the build! :) I hope it wins!
Love this build! In my 80, I built a drawer system with the top as a sleeping platform. You can leave the 2nd row seats. Just set the drawer platform height to match the height of the folded over 2nd row seat backs. I release the bottom latch and put a 3" block under each one so they're nice and level. Throw in a self inflating camp mattress and boom, sleeping platform. I'm 6'1 and have room for days with the front seats slid slightly forward. Packs up and back to a 5 seater in a few minutes (including deflating the mattress)!
Of the three builds this is easily the one I would want most, blown head gasket and all!
Dude love the rig. I don't know why you are not you are not winning the onx challenge. Always love all your videos. Keep up the great videos.
Cruiser outfitters are true freakin experts man
Thank you Nate. Regardless of the outcome of the "competition", this has been entertaining, enlightening and informative. Your demeanor, your ability to articulate the process, and the skills to get it done, throw waste to the adage "those who can't...teach". You have demonstrated the ability to do both. Thank you, and good luck in all you do (not just this challenge). 👍👍
I wish more people voted for you!!! I’m a Jeep guy but I love this Toyota!
loving the build man.. so I kept my 80 back seat in tact to the family could ride with me.. I have full drawers in back for storing parts, recovery gear, etc. The beauty of my drawers is that when I fold down the middle row, they have a platform that folds out and rests on the middle row seats, turning it into a sleeping platform. Best of both worlds.
I'm a land rover owner but I really love the 80 series... great video!
Good to see you have your son involved
Love that there is an S10 in your convoy
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Great video! You had us all over, in the garage, out on the trails, in the garage, out on the trails and back in the garage. Good times and good luck on your competition!
As an 80 owner, this is friggin awesome. Can’t wait for more wheeling footage
That relay box is sweet for them switch pannels 12:10
lots of love for the wj😍😍😍
I have 94 that’s built out pretty good. Been a shop potato since I got my RZR. This vid has gotten me to finish the small amount of work and get it out.
Congratulations, you’re the next Fred Williams! I love your content, keep it up.
Ditch the rear seats, build dual full length pull out drawers with sleeping platform on top. Or make one of the drawers shorter and put a drawer fridge accessible from the one of the rear doors for cold beverages.
Okay, 2 seats up front, big drawer "base" (like a sliding shelf) with a shelf that can raise and lower from the interior roof to be a sleeping platform if you need it, not a bunch of extra solar this and that, just a badass multi use minimalist cool wheeling first, road duty second build... You said you wanted ideas 😁👍
Seriously Nate, I dig it as much as I dig his Red Second Gen S10 build
I remove the rear drivers seat when I camp and sleep in the back, tailgate down and tailgate top door closed. It works!
You gotta love a Land Crusher...
I know the vid has been up for a while so you may not come back to this comment. For a rear storage setup that keeps it a family wheeler, gives you a platform for sleeping and will fit all the junk: I built a plywood box that took every available inch of rear cargo space with the second row of seats installed. Just like any cargo boxes on the market more or less. Then i removed the second row of seats and utilized the seat bracket bolt holes, with pedestals, to build more boxes for that space and were removable. The second row were accessible from the top with lids while the rears had a standard drawer. In my 80 i could have up to 4 people and a little storage or from the back of the front seats to the tailgate was all flat space. Your land cruiser build is my wet dream, thank you for sharing it.
I've been using Frontrunner Wolfpack boxes for years. We use 3 - one for dry food storage, one for the camp kitchen, one for other misc camp gear (flashlights, TP, etc). We usually through them up on the roof rack to make more space inside, but they fit easily in the cargo area of my 4Runner. I like them because they are weather proof and they are very stable when stacked.
Powerstop rotors and pads are amazing In water and Help eith brake fade love them on all my 4runner rigs
Raised platform bed build would make a pretty awesome video 👀
My dream car
You are so incredible talented! As a mechanic, engineer, host/presenter and in many more categories.
Also seeing your work makes me cry in german TÜV.
i always liked land cruisers, i hope i can get one before they get too expensive
Man, I would love to have you as my neighbor 😂 love your content, the way you present things, and always super envious of the trails you drive 🫥
I am hoping to do something similar to my 83 Toyota pickup. 2 inch lift, high steer, and IFS box. Flat bed on it, and chop the front. Hoping for 35-37's with lockers, and gear it for the 22r. Dual cases and gear it to piss for the tires :) Thank You for some inspiration and motivation :)
One of the many things I appreciate about you Nate, is, you paint all your undercarriage suspension components, unlike some other channels who throw parts together covered in mud, rust and grease, and just send it, Nothing drives me crazy more than that.
I was thinking about the whole solo sleeping in the back thing. I don't know why but, I had a rescue litter come to mind. They typically weight around 30lbs, but you really could setup a sleeping bag and you're done. Possibly mount it to a roof rack or turn it into a cot.
That S10 is sick!
Thanks 👊🏻
So awesome you're playing around with a Landcruiser dude.
as an aussie just call it an 80 series thats what we call em
You already have family rigs I would keep it solo. I’d love to see a platform build like overland bounds 80 series. Great work Nate!
Enjoying every videos watching this challenge..
Goodness, I would love to have a rig even half as cool as this.
Internal ceiling drawers, pull the rear side windows and make storage drawers in their place, and/or bed floor drawers
I've always loved S10's and that crew cab is incredible!
Hey Nate. If you use prevailing torque locknuts and proper washers on all you suspension and steering joints. They will not, absolutely will not come loose. You will never have to retorque them. If for some out this world reason they were to loosen up the slightest bit they will never vibrate loose. I have 40+ grade 8 bolts on my jeep throughout my suspension and Steering and not one has ever come loose and I’ve never retorqued them. And nobody thrashes on their rig as hard as I do. If there’s a week point in anything, I find it lol
I love watching you and your son together. That's the reason I started our channel. To spend time with my son doing things he loves to do and to hopefully encourage more dad's to find time to do things with their kids.
Aw yeah some wj action
that tangerine color is super nice on the trail. good betsy
As an 80 owner (2), tailgate storage is a nice solution to hold some stuff.
Oh, and the orange with the blue wheels, I'm still jealous how GOOD that works 👍
I put my compressor over the left rear wheel arch behind that plastic panel then just have the manifold or plug poking through the panel, I run two drawers side by side from the tailgate to behind the rear seats, only about 100mm tall so I can still have the fridge on top and be able to reach and see inside it. You could also make a false panel to continue the floor height from the drawers to the front seat backs to sleep on. I also strung bungee cord like a web up below the headliner in the back so you can store pillows, sleeping bags etc up high on top out of view. There are companies also that sell a kit to make inside the lower tailgate a storage compartment, quite easy to replicate.
Very rad build! Thank you for taking us along
I had a 96 FZJ80. Absolutely loved it. Turd of an engine but was an all-round bitchin rig. Air lockers? Hate em! Always repairing them for buddies.
I have an 80-series. I built rear drawers that are the same height as the back edge of the folded 2nd row seats. I can put down a sleeping pad and sleep comfortably, and still have rear seats if I need them. Alternatively, build a height-matched platform for one or both rear seats. Gives you lots of flexibility. The only downside to drawers is if you ever need to transport something heavy. I needed to transport a motorcycle engine and getting it onto the tailgate was hard enough. Getting it the extra ~10 inches onto the drawers was really tough.
Nate, it was nice meeting you in Montrose this morning at the TA truck stop. The Toyota looks awesome and good luck in the challenge.
Cut and install a hatch cover for the tailgate for storage inside. Two good tight nets one front and one rear mounted to the roll cage. and a small drawer system.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Don't want to sell my 80 series no more, ever!
Awesome that it is done, has been tested, has the bugs worked and most importantly by far... You love it. Awesome build. Hope you have a fantastic time win, lose or draw. Thanks for the great build videos sir.
got to love those passive aggressive rock gardens :P
This build is insane! The popo would have a field day with these mods and most 80 owners in Aus would have zero idea what you have created!! 🤌🤌
This is the one I'd keep of the 3. Just Gorgeous.
I grew up wrenching on everything I could. I took apart my dad lawn mowers when I was 5 yo just to see how it worked. Spent my teens fixing up GM square body trucks with my grandpa. I have watched every car show you can think of! Most of them I have watched multiple times. I love Dave Chappelle and started watching your channel because of him. You are awesome! You take pride in your work and want to do things right and not just film content! I learn a ton watching you and have always wanted to do metal work but you have inspired me to get a welder. Keep it up my friend!!
I'd say do a hanging cot or hammock in the back there. That way you've got full access with height on a hammock setup. If you go with a one man cot hanging from your roll bars, you'll have space under and beside it for storage.
Watching these series are more entertaining than Hollywood movies. Thank you for your time and effort.
The Lexus turned out awesome! Good luck in the competition. That offroading shop is in the area I grew up in... small world. I'm in Arvada Colorado now. Just an hour from wheeling above Central City.
Steve Irwin ad FTW!
The welding montage of the control arms to classical music was just perfectly composed.
I have a 12v swapped 80 w nv4500 and hardly ever use the rear seats. It’s the best hunt trip base camp. I plan on building a sleeping platform to gain the width lost from wheel wells. Love your build been voting for you.
Love the vids man, i have an 80 & a 2nd & 3rd gen 4Runner. I took all the seats out of the 80 & made a platform. The seats of the 4R's fold up in a much more cargo friendly way & if you were to take the seats out, thered be a big hole. What i love about the 80 is that it's more or less flat. When i go with the fam, ill take the 4R & when i wanna go overnight & sleep ill take the 80
Your episodes are great!!! beautiful work culture in filming and working in the workshop. Can't wait for the next episodes!!!! this Lexus is wonderful.Greetings from Poland 😀👍
Large drawer/sleeping platform is perfect. And different than your other builds.
Not only is your fabrication top notch, your editing is as well I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos and regret not being a subscriber sooner!
He subs out the welding and the editing.
Love the "Simple Suzy " aspect of this build I'm really digging it comfortable capable &reliable 👊🏽
I really like that rear bumper.
Gday from Australia. Long time viewer. Much respect for the work you do to your vehicles. Really enjoyed the harbour trailer series. Cheers
As a fellow 80 owner, the tailgate offers a good amount of storage. There are a lot of videos on how to do it. Basically you remove the carpet on the tailgate and cut a big hole on the inside and install doors. There are several companies that make the doors or you can DIY some.
My vote is to keep the rear seats. Actually keep one rear seat for your son. Then do storage on one side and the rear. Build drawers in both places. Also stock 80 rear seats fold pretty flat. A lot of people keep them and do a platform over both of them.
Absolutely love this build!!!
I think a two drawer system would be idea for your rig.
I thought the idea was that both you and Dave would be on the trip at the same time. Based on that idea I'd do two single mattresses and try to fit the fridge in the middle of the beds or off to one side.
I would love to see you rock the same rear drawer setup as the "overlandbound" landy. Sweet pull out kitchen too
The DRT pro sticker is hard af
The lower swivel hub studs/nuts are a known point of concern with big tyres and they stretch the studs pretty easily if they come loose and go unnoticed.
As long as they're checked regularely they're fine.
This is the best of the three.
Nate, you can rotate that 90 degree bend on the ARB and make it a *little* lower. You just have to loosen the 10mm nut in there with a thin wrench.
Drawer system for sure Nate. Badass build!
For the rear you can make tailgate storage. In my 80 I have a full Baltic birch sleeping platform with a big drawer and cubbies where the 2nd row was. All bolted to the factory holes.
Great build. Good to see the next generation learning off his Dad