Thread: How to start a Land Cruiser

I witnessed this down town last week. Two guys in a Troopie that wouldn't even turn over. Driver tries the ignition, nothing. So he pops the bonnet, fiddles a bit and stands back scratching his head.

Meanwhile, passenger opens door and returns to front of car with about a 3' length of 4"x2" with a 6" nail through one end... and proceeds to scream and beat the living daylights out of the top region of the non-functional motor

Whilst this is happening the driver is actually pointing at parts of the engine to "nail"

When this yields no results he then proceeds to the front left guard and gives it a few belts for good measure

Anyway when I came back to the Rover about 45 minutes later the Troopie was gone So I can only conclude that this is a viable technique for starting a Troopie





It did make me think of Basil Fawlty and the Mini.

I recall a few years back my Wife and I were travelling just out of Alice Springs and found some Indigenous Brothers on the side of the road with a new troppie that was out of diesel anyway we put some diesel in it and they asked for a push.
Anyway 6 old women and half a dozen kids jump in the back leaving my wife and I to close the doors and push. We proceeded to push and the old fella said to us no just push him with your car I explained to him that pushing it would smash the backdoor in and break the window something that he acknowledged but didnt care about (this car was only new).
We then put the old Nissan I had at the time up against the back of it and they asked us to wait he then went around the front lifted the bonnet took the aircleaner off emptied half a tin of Aerostart down the intake jumped back in and told us to go, well the Aerostart almost lifted the head off the thing once the dropped the clutch. They then dissapeared over the horizon with much laughter.