Family Build...1994 FZJ80 Land Cruiser

[JCruise]

Just before Thanksgiving this past fall, we took the Cruiser out to the Outerbanks, NC and stayed in a beach house that was only accessible by beach with a 4wd vehicle. It was pretty awesome. Had wild horses running around everywhere as well!



Got some cool Overlanding gifts for Christmas. First, my "I am Jake" shirt. Check him out on youtube if you get the chance.



And...prob my best Christmas gift, and most important upgrade to the Cruiser...my Overland Bound emblem.




We had a pretty good snow fall in January. Took the time to snap a few pictures.




-JCruise

 

[booholtz]

Very nice... I will stay tuned. Love these cruisers.

 

[JCruise]

The most recent project I tackled was re-doing the fender flares. Michael's video on Youtube was quite helpful in my rebuild: https://www.overlandbound.com/fender-flare-repair-supplies/

The previous owner had removed the rear fender flares as one of the ends had broken off. I had to figure out a way to reattach the flares as well as source all of the mounting hardware. Took a bit a looking around, and purchase of a rivet gun at harbor freight, but I eventually got the flares installed. I decided to spray them with black bed-liner as I figured they would likely get scraped up fairly quick.










-JCruise

 

[Jon N Regan Rico]

The next upgrade, was installing carpet. The previous owner had removed the carpet and sprayed down bedliner. Wanting comfort over function we decided to reinstall the carpet. Below you'll see before and after pictures with the seats removed. I forgot to take a picture of this step, but prior to putting down the carpet we lined the whole floorboard with Noico 80 mil sound deadening mat. Made a huge difference with road noise, and has seemed to help keep some of the engine heat out as well.

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Brother- and father-in-law helping me out with the install.

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(I'm curious if anyone could post a pic of the factory carpet install. I'm wondering how Toyota hid this seam (see above) between the front and rear pieces of carpet. Maybe the original carpet was all one piece? Or maybe there's a plastic trim piece that I'm missing? The seam is not as noticeable once the seats are in as you can see in the next picture.)

With the seats back in.

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Feels like a brand new car!

-JCruise

Carpet looks nice! Where did you get it from?

 

[JCruise]

Carpet looks nice! Where did you get it from?

Thanks!

Purchased the carpet from Stock Interiors. Been happy with it so far.

-JCruise

 

[Scott Haworth]

Good looking build

 

[JCruise]

Good looking build

Thanks Scott!!

 

[1uz4runner]

nice build man. Ive always loved the land cruisers, look forward to seeing more

 

[JCruise]

nice build man. Ive always loved the land cruisers, look forward to seeing more

Thanks 1uz4runner! It was cool running into you today. Thanks for stopping and saying hi! That's the best part of this community.

 

[1uz4runner]

It was really cool running into you as well. I saw the cruiser and committed that it was nice and my buddy pointed out the badge so we had to turn around to see if it was and sure enough. Me and my friend are planning a trip to Ports mouth island overnight "daddy daughter trip" on the 29th and returning on the 30th if you and your family would like to join yall are more than welcome.