How to Walk Your Dogs With a Land Cruiser!

Neatus · **Posted:** Wed Aug 22, 2012 2:40 am

Yeah, I said Land Cruiser. I have had 4 Jeeps since I rolled the KJ but now I found the vehicle I am gonna stick with as my 4x4. It is a 96 Toyota Land Cruiser with front and rear factory lockers. Anyway...you can do this with any 4x4... This is how I walk my dogs on days I am lazy.
http://youtu.be/8uyZWbxAaGY

CIMARRON13 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 22, 2012 10:28 pm

Hey I saw your post on Mud. I also switched to a Land Cruiser for my main 4x4 after owning 5 Jeeps in the past. I have a 97 with f&r factory lockers. CRD will most likely get sold when the diesel gets put in the cruiser next month.
I like the dog walking idea but I don't think my dogs are smart enough for that.

ar-wg · **Posted:** Fri Oct 19, 2012 3:08 pm

That's exactly what I do with my dog. He runs in front of the jeep and darts off when he sees a rabbit to chase. If he gets too far off track a simple honk of the horn and he's right back. Best exercise ever, well for him, not me :-)r

ATXKJ · **Posted:** Sat Oct 20, 2012 9:30 am

If the trails are close - that works great - if the trails are 900 miles away - not so great (Texas is mainly private property)

on the Land Cruiser - I traded one in on my Liberty
if was comfortable, reliable - ran great.

it also had no horsepower to speak of and averaged 12 mpg - stock........

although there's a place in Australia that makes adapters to drop in a Chevy small block, big block or diesel....
any will fit and almost always get better mileage and power.

Neatus · **Posted:** Sat Oct 20, 2012 10:45 am

ATXKJ wrote:

If the trails are close - that works great - if the trails are 900 miles away - not so great (Texas is mainly private property)

on the Land Cruiser - I traded one in on my Liberty
if was comfortable, reliable - ran great.

it also had no horsepower to speak of and averaged 12 mpg - stock........

although there's a place in Australia that makes adapters to drop in a Chevy small block, big block or diesel....
any will fit and almost always get better mileage and power.

I get back about you 14mpg consistently with 285/75/16s.
I have thought about the Chevy motor option. Do you know if it would allow me to keep the Toyota tranny? Whaat is the company that sells that kit?

P.s. yeah those trails are behind my house.

ATXKJ · **Posted:** Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:46 am

Well I had an FJ80 - and while the motor was a monument to what GMC could have done if they continued to build a 1950 truck engine for 40+ years - it's not the same as the FZJ, that's a lot better and the newer V8's - should be better still even if you lose some of the low end torque.

and there are a lot more Toyota suppliers - than Liberty suppliers

When I was looking around Downey, Advance and Mark's all made adapter's - now Downey's out of business.
however Marks http://www.marks4wd.com/ Advance http://www.advanceadapters.com/

pretty sure you can get a bellhousing or transfer case adapters depending on the pieces you want to keep.

and I assume you found them - but a couple of great Toy websites are IH8MUD and Slee's
http://www.ih8mud.com/, http://www.sleeoffroad.com/

however some of the engine swap links on IH8MUD's tech links are dead - but there are still some writeups on site.
also CRD_Joe - was able to get Toyota Diesel parts - and do a Factory style swap on his.

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