Removing the body from my Land Cruiser

I completely removed the body of my Toyota Land Cruiser. I wanted to see the body mounts and wiring before I do a body lift on my other 100 series. Here's what I learned along the way, and I hope it's useful!

[@elektro3000]

I suggest you be VERY careful about using that induction heater on the good Land Cruiser body mounts. They are likely quench and tempered property class 10.9 bolts and heating them above 425C can damage them (temper softening, annealing, decarburization). I would recommend soaking in penetrating oil, heating with an electric heat gun, knocking off as much rust as possible with a stainless wire wheel, re-soaking and re-heating, then tapping it in alternating loosening and tightening directions with a 6 point impact socket on a 1/2 inch drive impact gun. If the nut rounds off, replace the 6 point socket with a twist extractor socket. If that STILL doesn't get it off, I would recommend replacing the whole mount bolt & nut regardless of whether you use the induction heater or cut it.

[@landcruiserscotland]

This is also solid advice. I completely replaced all the bolts when I did the other cruiser 👍

[@user-ov7oz1ol7g]

Excellent thank you for this great video

[@landcruiserscotland]

You're very welcome. I hope it's useful to a few people.

[@GeorgeJeffin]

Don’t use feebest mountings , they’re notorious for cracking. Using only OE. Buy once cry once

[@landcruiserscotland]

Oh dear looks like I might find out the hard way. Febest was all I could get here. Thanks for the tip though, I'll keep an eye on them for cracking

[@DjYvesNL]

Make sure to get the OEM ones, the Febest ones are terrible ans have only a few years lifespan, learned that the hard way. Also Broke 2 Febest Lower Control arms in a matter of weeks, Broke a Febest upper ball joint on the highway and bent a Febest Torsion bar adjuster. This was all one order, I would stay away from the brand. If you need I can get and sent you the OEM ones through a mate. Great video by the way! @landcuiserscotland

[@MrMohammadharoon]

Hi Buddy.
Can you guide me if i want to fix LC 100's body on a LC80's Frame?? Is it possible and relaible ?

[@landcruiserscotland]

For what reason would you do that?

[@MrMohammadharoon]

@@landcruiserscotland i have an accidented 80 with good frame and want to get it repaired, i love 105, body of 100 with suspension of 80

[@denburnltd880]

So are you going to manage to remove the body on your good one, without taking the engine out ? I am local and would be interested in seeing how much work is involved, I have a new XForce cat back exhaust delivered yesterday and was at a minimum going to wire wheel the whole chassis and repaint before fitting the new exhaust, I have done a 80 series a 95 series all without taking the body off, and it takes forever, the mess in the workshop is not good. Any advice would be appreciated. Ideally get the chassis galvanised in Elgin would be a dream job. So body off would help make the dream come true.

[@landcruiserscotland]

I'm going to lift the other one but not remove the entire body. Taking the whole body off is quite a destructive process really. You need new brake lines at the pump, new ahc lines at the pump, air con removal, lots of the interior needs to come out, and a lot of the engine ancillaries need to be removed so you can unfasten the wiring loom

[@denburnltd880]

A lot to work through, definitely want to try, but for now I will soldier on with the wire wheel , it’s just surface rust really and it’s only the back half the spare tire space was done a couple years ago when I put in a new LPG tank, this one is my 4.7 100 series, the wife drives a 95 Colorado 3.4 5VZ-FE. for the past 18 years and just won’t part with it, I’ve owned Landcrusers & Lexus LS 400 for the last 30 odd years, you have made a good choice with buying and working on Landcrusers so easy to work on and parts are widely available worldwide. Keep up with the videos as it will help those folks who want to learn more.

[@xKILLERSTALKERx]

Any update on this car

[@landcruiserscotland]

It had unrecoverable engine damage. Absolute scrap. I broke it down for parts and sold pretty much everything to get my money back.

[@AJ-hz6sh]

So why body lift and not just suspention lift?

[@landcruiserscotland]

In order to fit 35 inch tyres I need to do both

[@E39M5SPEED]

@@landcruiserscotland I’ll make a video for you later. I just put 35” tires in my 100 series with no lift.

[@landcruiserscotland]

Do the wheels still turn left and right 😂

[@E39M5SPEED]

@@landcruiserscotland
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[@E39M5SPEED]

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