As featured in the May/June 07' issue of '4WD Toyota Owner' Magazine!
This is "LC The Brown Cow", my 1984 FJ60 Landcruiser. She has;
Suspension/Drivetrain/Engine;
33x12.5 BFG M/T km's on Procomp 15x8 alloys.
33x9.5 BFG A/T spare on stock wheel underneith.
6 inch lift (4inch Spector springs, 2inch shackle).
Front shackle reversal.
Custom made long travel front drive line.
Front axle cut and rotate for better pinion angle.
Rough Country shocks.
Duel steering stabilizers (aftermarket Rancho, and Old Man Emu in stock location).
ARB rear diff locker and air compressor.
Marks 4wd Adapters of Melbourne AU 3.08:1 low range and 1.08:1 high range transfercase gears.
Toyota (hf55) 5 speed conversion.
Royal Purple 75-90 synthetic gear oil throughout.
Centerforce clutch.
Steel braided brake lines.
Man-A-Fre power steering cooler.
K&N air filter.
Flowmaster exhaust.
Protection/Recovery;
Class V Tow kit-(skid plate).
Custom made 1/4 inch steel rear bumper/ quarter panel protection with Jerry cans and High lift jack swing out. It also doubles as a high preasure air tank.
Custom made 4 point bolt on rock sliders.
Custom made winch mount bullbar.
Custom made braced 3/16 inch steel transfercase protection.
Warn XD9000i winch with 100ft of 3/8 inch 18,000lb Viking synthetic winch line.
Electrical/Audio/Lighting;
Bullbar top mounted Hella 500 lights.
Custom made removable roof light bar with Hella 500 Lights.
Duel on board GPS's. Garmin Nuvi 205 with topo micro SD card for voice prompted street and basic off road navigation and Lowrance Baja 540c for detailed topo and 4x4 trails.
Garmin NMEA 2000 17x outboard GPS antenna.
Duel Optima Yellow top deep cycle batteries.
Mean Green 200 Amp alternator.
Pioneer usb ipod control deck.
64GB iphone 4S USB wired and velcro'd to a custom mount on left side of CB.
Rear detachable Polk Audio 6x9s with built in 6 1/2 inch JL Audio subs.
One tuned and ported 15 inch JL Audio 15w3v2 subwoofer.
Front Diamond Audio 6 1/2s.
Diamond Audio dash mounted tweeters.
Eclipse 2 channel amp, and Fosgate 4 channel amp.
Audiobahn 1 farrad capacitor.
Cobra "29" overhead CB/Weather radio with 5x7 Polk Audio external CB speaker mounted under dashboard speaker grill.
Wilson antenna.
Clifford alarm.
Interior;
Steel Horse locking center console.
FJ62 passenger grab handle.
1985 4runner dash mounted altimeter/inclimeter.
Outdoor digital thermometer with memory.
Custom rear cargo cover to hide the audio.
20% tint on rear glass.
Cushy sheep skin seat covers.
Aprx. $17K in mods. To say a Landcruiser is overbuilt is an understatement!!!
Special thanks to;
Bret at BRC Motor Sports for a great job on the custom trans, transfer case, and locker install (brcmotorsports.com). AJ at Bentup for the stout custom rear bumper and rock sliders (Bentup.com). Pete Isaacs at Brown Bear Fabrication for the duel Optima Battery set up, custom made removable roof light bar, and custom 3/16 in. steel reinforced trans/transfer case protection (bbfab@surewest.net), Jon Camp for the custom fabricated overhead CB mount. Jason Heape for the ultra heavy duty winch/bullbar/antenna mount bumper, David Zartman at 4WD Toyota Owner magazine for showing her to the world (4wdtoyotaowner.com). Dan McGee for help with the little 'tweeks'. And all other friends who have helped me restify this classic beast.
Not a speck of rust anywhere and that's the original factory paint!
TLCA Member #16074.
LC's write up in '4WD Toyota Owner' Magazine
LC's on the lower left.
Peirce OHV trail.
Snake Lake trail.
Crossing the South Yuba.
Snake Lake Trail.
Leading the pack.
Gold Valley Trail.
Snake Lake Obsticles...
World Famous Rubicon Trail...
Detachable custom made rear speakers. Top of the line 6x9 Polk Audio 3 way's in a sealed enclosure with built-in 6 1/2 inch tuned and ported JL Audio subs. Christal clear full range sound and seperation. All with a remote, 120 feet of wire, and a camp fire. With the duel Optima batteries, I can play music for 48 hours and still have pleanty of power left to start the truck.
"Bentup.com" rear bumper and quarter panel protection. It is also a high preasure air tank. This thing is a real work of art!
"bentup.com" rock sliders. They support the entire weight of the truck and flexed a mere 1/8th inch doing it!
Think there's enough support for each slider? If you look carefully towards the inside front of the frame, you can see the transfercase protection mounting brackets welded to the slider brackets. Everything is clamped to the frame using 8, 1/4 inch plate steel brackets (4 on each side). No welding or drilling done on the frame.
Matching rock sliders and rear bumper/quarter protection, 300 pounds of 1/4 inch square tube steel. May God help anyone that runs into this thing! The only "crumple zone" on her, is whatever hits her!
Custome made winch Bullbar. The outer portions are 3/16 inch steel. The uprights and fairlead plates are 1/4 inch. The mounts and winch mounting plate are 3/8 inch. I wouldn't pull out in front of it!
Custom made Brown Bear Fabrication transfercase protection. It bolts onto custom mounts which are welded to the 1/4 inch steel rock slider brackets. Easly removable for tranny service, yet strong enough to surport the entire weight of the truck! Nice Job Pete!
Transfercase protections side view...
Inclimeter doing it's thing.
Interior; I have pleanty to keep me entertained. 
Garmin GPS antenna bumper mount.
SOME vehicles beget cultlike followings: the Toyota Land Cruiser, for example. To a generation of explorers, adventurers, mercenaries and photojournalists -- real and would-be -- this is the object of their desire. Not the curvy, comfortable and expensive models of the last decade, but the heavy, ungraceful, boxy bruisers imported to the United States between 1958 and 1990.
These were vehicles built to last, to be driven over rough terrain and repaired by nonmechanics in the outback. You can abuse these war horses. You can equip them with strong roof racks, grille guards, side bars, big tires, auxiliary lighting and the ultimate badge of off-road intent, winches front and back. Then, you can gather at some ''Cruiserhead'' oasis -- the Moab desert in Utah is popular right now -- and put your machinery to the test, stopping only to rest a front tire on a boulder while you swap stories about who got stuck, how badly and where. Cruiser fans don't often follow established roads.
-New York times
