I am Carl from near Halstead Essex.
I currently have an Aussie FZJ80 manual which I have had for about six months and an UK 89 LJ70 which I have had for about 10 years although it has stood for the last five ...
Currently using the 80 every day, carried out a few minor repairs so far and plan to just tidy it up and keep it going, it has @ 260,000 km on the clock, but it runs sweet and goes really well for the size of it. Trying to get the 70 to run, have had the tank out and washed it out with MEK and cleaned the pickup pipes out but won't run unless you manually pump the fuel on the filter housing, so will try running it from a can to isolate the issue. It will need a lot of welding on body mounts and arches, so will take a it of time but it's going to be back on the road, used to nickname it the ' Land Crawler' because it was so damn slow.
Back ground - worked in main dealers since 1988 a lot of which was with Toyota franchise, but became disillusioned with the fact that nearly all are now PLC owned and have lost real customer focus, it's all about profit. So packed all that in and now do something without all the pressure and targets.
Did a little play four wheeling in Bures pit a good while back, but just intend to drive them now as I like driving them.
Hope to be able to contr
Kind regards Carl