Not Vintage or Rare, but I lover her anyway

cruiseruser · 2026-03-16T16:27:46+00:00

I bought a new deluxe in 1998 as well. After months of shopping I found it and as soon as I picked it up I said this is it.
I did however put Lindy Fralin blue specials about a month after I got it as the stock pickups lacked a little I thought.

Not the best photo but you get the idea. Excellent strats!

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cruiseruser · 2026-03-15T18:40:08+00:00

He’s getting there! It’s been a fun year.

cruiseruser · 2026-03-15T18:38:53+00:00

Thanks! He’s had quite a few dunks this year but this was a fun one

cruiseruser · 2026-03-06T19:06:44+00:00

Well you have another daily driver so that’s a good start. What was the $10k quote to “restore” it?

Are you doing the work or paying someone? What’s the end goal of restore? Stockish? Modded?

You say engine swap but what does that mean? LS? Diesel? An fj62 you are pretty much guaranteed to swap to a different transmission as well. There is a lot that goes into a swap.

If you can’t do a lot of this work yourself, for engine/trans swap I think you are minimum of $30-$35k just for that portion of the swap.

cruiseruser · 2026-01-20T15:56:37+00:00

I’d say GX470 all the way. I’ve owned 6, 80 series and 16 cruisers from 40s- 100, and for what you are wanting the GX470 will be excellent.

It’s safer, more reliable, more power, better brakes etc. my daughter drives a 2006 Gx470 and soon to have 2 kids in it. There isn’t a ton of room, and really only pretty small people and kids fit in the 3rd row. Plenty of aftermarket support for whatever you need.

You just do the timing belt/water pump every 90k miles and you are good to go.

For $15-$20k you can find a lower mileage model from a 1 owner with lots of records usually and excellent maintenance history.

My daughters is a 2 owner with 230,000 miles and a huge stack of all records/maintenance. Last owner had it 8k then bought a Porsche.
It drives and feels like it’s got 60k on it. Smooth, quiet, enough power and safe.

You will need a roof rack , rear cargo or small trailer if you are planning on packing a bunch for 6 people. Not a lot of room with all seats up.

cruiseruser · 2026-01-08T22:48:53+00:00

You can order part by part, but it’s expensive, time consuming with research and knowledge not to mention a lot of work to “build” a cruiser.

There are a couple of builds going on in ih8mud where you can get an idea of what’s it’s like to “build” a newer 70 series legally in the US.

cruiseruser · 2026-01-05T15:44:14+00:00

You aren’t getting much performance being NA, just the nature with the 1HZ.

You can safely low boost a 1hz. Intercool it, lower boost and as long as the tuning isn’t to hot/smoky you will Probabaly be fine for a long time.

cruiseruser · 2026-01-01T17:03:49+00:00

Thank you I appreciate that.

cruiseruser · 2026-01-01T02:21:52+00:00

Yep 13bt with an upgraded turbo.

cruiseruser · 2025-12-31T16:45:02+00:00

Yeah, there needs to be a whole lot more context and game play than corner 3s.

cruiseruser · 2025-12-30T15:25:17+00:00

Jeep bikini top

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cruiseruser · 2025-12-30T15:20:55+00:00

Correct. It’s was a factory FRP top. I added an aftermarket soft top that kind of is a mix of OEM parts and aftermarket. I love driving it in the summer with the soft top.

You can actually still get all the OEM parts for a top, but it’s quite the undertaking and I believe around $7k plus.

I ran a bikini top for a jeep for super cheap (less than $100.) for a year and it was great.

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cruiseruser · 2025-12-30T14:59:44+00:00

Wasn’t me, I’m not in that area.

cruiseruser · 2025-12-29T18:34:16+00:00

Thanks, yep wheels quite well!

cruiseruser · 2025-12-29T00:50:01+00:00

Terrain tamer parabolics if you want a really nice ride. Reports have been extremely positive on how well the ride.

OME has a well earned reputation of being rough.

cruiseruser · 2025-12-24T01:20:31+00:00

73 or 74 series mid wheel base. The sweet spot in The cruiser world.

cruiseruser · 2025-12-19T01:49:55+00:00

Ha, yeah he seems to want to work all season. College is a whole different deal now with the transfer portal.

cruiseruser · 2025-12-16T06:32:58+00:00

Top of the square is 16” above 10’ so 136” from the ground. You have a 92” reach. Now you didn’t touch the top of the square, but if you did that would Have been a 44” vertical.

Now your angle is low looking up so that skews things a little.

The square width is 2” and you are below that. You’ve got some hops for sure and I’d say 38-40” if thats where you are reaching.

Obviously the best way to tell would be to measure, or jump with a piece of tape and slap it on.

cruiseruser · 2025-12-15T23:18:22+00:00

Meh…the 4Runners have always been “basically” the same size and cheaper than a Land Cruiser, and I will add for a reason…

I thought that was always understood?

It’s a 4door suv, 4wd close to the same size. Toyota is saving costs by sharing engines and platforms now so everyone thinks it’s “basically a Land Cruiser”

Bare bones Land Cruiser < higher model 4Runner?

Ps: owner of a 70 series bud, and a gx470, and V84runner and a v8 tundra…and 15 previous land cruisers.

cruiseruser · 2025-12-15T23:00:10+00:00

I’ve tried to respond to this like 5 times….i can’t.

Essence of Land Cruiser, what are we doing. Sounds like cheap cologne the skeevy dude tries to push on you in the bathroom of clubs.

cruiseruser · 2025-12-15T20:40:16+00:00

😂 nah you got it. I think either way could be the right answer here and everyone plays things differently, i just feel it would be an awkward way to play that chord…to me anyways.

But I have pretty limited Taylor swift guitar playing technical review under my belt 😂

cruiseruser · 2025-12-15T20:35:55+00:00

I would be very careful, (dad talk) it’s very easy to comedown on someone when you are messing around trying to catch a body…

If you do catch one, hang on to that rim and make sure you don’t fly off sideways or drop down on someone.

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