Thread: Toyota's most rugged Land Cruiser is back in Japan

Originally Posted by Disco Muppet

I saw a mine-spec RRS the other day.
White, high-viz yellow stripes, all the flashing orange lights, site markings, had a designated LV number, flag, etc.
I'd like a job in this mine please....

Hahah crack up lucky bugger alright!!

Originally Posted by Disco Muppet

I saw a mine-spec RRS the other day.
White, high-viz yellow stripes, all the flashing orange lights, site markings, had a designated LV number, flag, etc.
I'd like a job in this mine please....

Bloody hell,i would hate to see it after a few runs underground!!!!!

Originally Posted by goingbush

Yes mate, Ive owned and rebuilt dozens of Landrovers since the early 80's In the 2000's I got sick of working on them instead of driving them, then I had 3 Toyotas, rebuilt a 79 BJ40 and done a few round Aust trips in 1HDT 80 and 1HZ 105 Toyotas, Just drove them never modified them, never broke anything, tools got rusty . (well the 1HDT did blow up at 460,000km) I got sick of boredom and swapped the 105 for a '06 Td5 110 and out comes the tools again, replaced everything except the engine. Rebuilt Diffs, hubs, transfercase/ gearbox , wiring, .... everything stuffs up on them, Love the Landy but they just are bloody unreliable.

Landrover are defenitly fun to drive and great off road - but not dependable at all, saving grace is they are easy to fix.

1HDT good machine is it,the biggest POS motor ever sold in Oz,thats why you never see them now,even the die hards have given up on them,can't get parts for them either,my best mate who is a Tojo tragic sold his this year and drives a VW,he just could spend any more money on it,1HZ,yeh baby,what a power house,I've had two,I could never believe a motor that burns so much fuel could produce such little power,and overheat at the drop of a hat,what about that R151 gearbox the LC use,what a great idea making the output gear smaller so you can squeeze a 5th gear in there,the whole lot hanging out supported with just one bearing,thats engineering for ya,lucky I had my not dependable unreliable Tdi defender. Pat

The owner of that ghost tojo troopy fills up at work occasionally; he's actually a really nice bloke. As he says, he doesn't have a wife or kids, so he's got to spend his money on something. We've talked about the mods I'm doing on the p38, and he's been quite interested. Usually when I mention I've a p38 to a tojo driver I get an ear full of ignoramus (even amongst some lr fans too).

I've seen some photos and stories of how those mining vehicles are treated, there's nothing wrong with giving them a bootfull, but imo there's a very clear line between using and abusing.




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One of my son's workmates was sacked for dangerous driving in a Hilux.

Resurrecting an old thread here. but I've got to know, Nat_89 is this the truck you're talking about?

Originally Posted by nat_89

We do have one SWB Mercedes Unimog haha thats what the pump crew use and my god they give it a flogging and the little bugger goes anywhere its a crack up

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Could be waiting a while for an answer unfortunately- last activity from Nat_89 shows as 12th September 2016.