My Land Cruiser Is A NIGHTMARE To Drive And I'm Fixing It!! 

Thanks for making high quality videos for 80s!

Your entire 80 build series has been 10/10 content from the start, loving the content and information!!! I'm going through a similar build and I've used your videos as reference many times

Your videos have become the go to reference on 80 series mechanicals and modifications. I am just loving this Sunday morning! Well done!

Takeaway from the video………just leave the truck alone and enjoy it. Capable right out of the box so to speak.

I like the table saw hack as a welding table. Relax on how long things takes. If you are measuring in hours you are way ahead of me. Best case is days and sometimes it expands to weeks!

Great series, keep the 80 series alive forever

Well done nice work 🔧

Dude, great stuff. Love your fearless but thoughtful approach. You inspire me to take on more with my 80. Thanks for sharing.

My rig would get the wobbles on the freeway when driving over beat up pavement. No issues since replacing all of the bushings and tie rods. It's made a huge difference.

Great build. Just some thoughts of things I encountered when I lifted my FJ80. I can tell you that the improvement was from the caster correction drop brackets for the front radius arms. Toyota FSM states that 2.0 degrees is the minimum (4.0 degrees is on the higher end though most go for 5-6 degrees when going 3 link) and bone stock is at 3.0 degrees. For me; Slinky 3in lift, Spidertrax wheel spacers (running the FJC 17in trail team wheels), 35in mud terrains, Slee caster correction plates, new front/rear shaft u-joints, adjustable front panhard bar, Delta VS rear panhard bracket, all new Toyota bushings, extended rear LCA, adjustable rear UCA, all new Toyota tie-rods, Dobinson pass-through steering damper, rebuilt the knuckles/wheel bearings, Whiteline rear sway bar, Land Cuiser Phil rear sway bar links, and an alignment set to zero toe-in redeemed that I am at 2.0 degrees of caster. Truck would drive fine over perfect roads but would make you feel uncomfortable when driving through construction and or busy roads. It just always seemed like there was a delay between the steering wheel feedback and me correcting for such behavior that the road was causing so I thought then it must be the steering box that needs a rebuild. Well, one day doing maintenance on my truck I decided to un-bolt the front drive shaft and check the 3rd member flange and see how much play it had and it would turn significantly side-to-side. At this point I knew that I should consider rebuilding the 3rd. However, I tightened the big nut at the 3rd member flange to eliminate that side-to-side movement and went for a drive. Well, that ended up solving my issue and it didn't make sense to me until after I did an adjustment and went for a drive. The bearing inside had effectively a lot of play that was causing a "delayed vagueness" between the road and the steering wheel road feedback. Lol I still plan to rebuild the steering box because it's the last thing I haven't touched but this one was confusing for me.

Great video mate. Love the content.

if you plan to continue the 80 series built i guess I'm gonna be right behind you on the build also 😁

love the video! a quick note - on the PCK, I recommend going as high as possible on the axle side and using whichever hole on the frame side gets you closest to level *without* the axle side being lower than the frame side. ( - you could lift that axle side and improve your rear roll center/handling even a bit more)

If you are not welding for something to hold pressure those welds lookd great.

Such a huge difference in how it drives! 😅

One thing with the radius arm setup. Flipped arms are also quite a popular setup, it increases clearance under the diff, the radius arms sit flatter as they are mounted ontop of the diff which increases ride quality, and you can set your own custom castor up the front.

Great video

They don’t build them like they used to! Great job! Jealous want to start looking for one! To build for my son!

Damn ,I'm here complaining about my ABS light.... Following

Move your axle forward. I used 80 Series DIY Front Axle Relocation Kit - Red Line Land Cruisers RL1080 (SN2-19)

Change bushing in those radius arms to offset bushings and that’ll get ya some more caster back

Awesome work man. I am debating what suspension to go with on my 80. I agree you must do these corrections or it will be scary to drive. That said it has me thinking if I need to weld brackets to fix the radius arm issues, maybe it’s time to just do a 3-link up front and weld a few more brackets.

Make me think a built 2nd gen p/u like your old one is a more practical rig. And if you needed more room. Your old 1st runner built the same wouldve been a good choice

Cut an turn the knuckles to get 6degrees of castor

Drag link needs to match the panhard angle

Looking good brother, when are we gonna get that thing on a trail and see what she does? I’d love to bring Black Betty out there and wheel with you!!!

What are the actual diameter of the new tires on the truck? What psi are you running? I like the look of these tires!

Inner and outer tie rods also lower and upper ball joints cause that problem

How’s the front driveshaft length? I’m about to start this same lift.

any problems with finding brake parts....rotors and calipers ?? I have a 1990 HDJ80 right hand drive

you have to bring those pittsburg gray jacks back for the recall!!

Dude, great video! What's your handle on Mud?

Try to adjust the steering gearbox need to be align.

delete ABS and get rear brake adjustable proportioning valve from wilwood

The spidertrax spacers fit over the hubs? I didn't think they would fit. Did you have to modify?

Love the content and the build so far. Just curious why do people say "rig" all the damn time?

Please drop a link to the drop brackets you installed. I am planning a 76 series build and am having trouble sourcing parts since they were never imported to the US. I believe the 80 series drop for the radius arms would be the same as the front and back of the 76 series. If not, they shouldn't be too difficult to modify. Thanks

Where do you go for your parts? Need the bushings and tie rods for my LC80 as well.

When are you going to take it out on a shake down trail?

Just a fyi your shocks are upside down, your boot is the top of your shock not the bottom. Will still work but they won’t work anywhere near as well as they should.

say hello to 1MPG

I do not think you need to fit those giant tires in a car. That is like for a farm truck. The rest are good mods

"Don't put spaces on a Land Cruiser or any car for that matter."

Total overkill this setup.