How To Turn Your 76 Into A Towing Beast: Major Upgrades For Touring And Towing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- After getting our ATD bullbar fitted we get started on the coil conversion, fit our new wheels and tyres, and wrap the whole Landcruiser with 3M PPF Film!
We're so excited to show you the progress on our 76 Landcruiser build. Strap in and enjoy!
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Well done looks good. We have been round Australia twice including Tassie, visiting every Australian iconic area and all with a stock standard Prado and standard road bunk van. Camping mostly fully off grid. Funny perceived needs against actual need (wants). But great to watch, look forward to the build.
Thanks mate! After almost 3 years in an almost stock Ford Ranger we agree you can get away with a lot less. This is a dream vehicle for us.
Keep posting About your journey with the car !! Very excited to see how it turns out
Will do!
Great to see it coming to life. 😊
It sure is. Thanks Dave!
Wow what a cracking Ep and so honest on the prices , Well done thanks for sharing.
Cheers, Craig.
I had McCormacks fit out my 300s and I was super happy with their work.
Yeah, they do a great job
Awesome watching it come together
Thanks!
Very exciting stuff. Absolutely awesome build!!!
Thanks, Mark!
Some good secondary anti theft security might be a good investment. Going to be a nice looking wagon and the front bar is super nice, thanks.
Good call! Thanks.
The 76 looked mint when I saw it at Burrum Heads but it was hard to appreciate just how much work (and expense) that had gone into it even up to that point until this video (and more to come over the coming weeks). I guess when you compare it to a house reno/improvement any other pleb like myself might otherwise do at home, you wouldn’t take any shortcuts or spare any expense so I can understand the ‘buy once, cry once’ notion. I’m very keen (as I’m sure you and Liz are) to see how all ‘the fruit’ performs when used in anger as I’m sure you’ll be putting it all to the ultimate road test during your ongoing travels 🤘
Thanks Rich, and great to meet you and the family.
Guys, looking great and so glad you are with a new van and car ..a a huge step up! These things are great once modified but you need to spend as much as what you paid for the truck min!
Fingers crossed you are throwing out the OEM airbox and filter -,see if the guys can do the Donaldson !
Thanks Tony! Stay tuned!
Awesome build guys and super impressed with your detail! we've got a 2016, 76 series that we have been doing a slow build on as well and really love the vehicle and how it performs. Hey if possible can you do a walkaround at the end of each stage as it would be so good to see it in stages? Cheers and keep em coming! Love your work too! Appreciate the effort, Phil
Thanks! Will do! This Sunday will be a more detailed look at what we've done so far and why.
Great build so far! Were you able to offset some of the purchase price of the coil conversion with the standard diff set-up?
Thanks! The diff centre gets re-used in the coil conversion. The standard suspension and diff housing aren't worth much unfortunately.
Hi guys love your channel. We've just purchased a 79 series dualcab at a reasonable post covid price and are looking at upgrades and towing a semi off road van. We did a lap in a BT50 dualcab with ARB suspension towing this van with no probs. but went the cruiser for it's ff road abilities. Just wondering if the rear axle length deficit was addressed as part of the coil conversion? This is more problematic in our 79 due to greater wheelbase and vehicle length .Looking forward to watching your new adventures, Cheers!
Thanks guys. Similar to us, we switched to the 76 from a Ford Ranger for similar reasons. The Jmacx coil conversion we did includes a lot more than just the suspension components, including a replacement rear diff housing and axles to correct the track width. The factory diff centre (including the locker if fitted) is retained. It also includes a handy rear axle load rating upgrade, GCM upgrade, GVM upgrade, brake upgrade including booster and braided lines, replacement exhaust (torqit), and re-engineering for bigger tyres.
Well done looks great. I have my 4wd in there at the moment and mccormacks could not be more then helpful. They have given me one of there ute for the time it is there around 2 months.
They are a great team, you're in good hands
The finish on those ATD bars just leaves TJM & ARB behind, if I had my time again I’d by barwork from them
Agreed, once we saw them in person we were sold.
Can you clarify the upgrade numbers for peeps? Our 76 already had 3.5t tow rating, and the addition of the Jmacx kit gave us an increase in GVM from 3000kg to 3900kg. But not a GCM increase.
We'll be going through it in more detail in a future video but the Jmacx coil conversion incresed the GVM to 3900kg and maintains a full 3500kg towing at max GVM - a GCM of 7400kg
What's your thoughts on the ppf so far?
I'm trying to determine whether the price tag is worth the benefits ppf has.
Love it. The 3M stuff we used is incredible at repelling water which in turn means mud, animal droppings, etc don't stick at all and makes it so much easier to clean. Add to that the scratch and chip resistance and it's great peace of mind. It isn't cheap but we knew we were keeping this vehicle for a long time.
That is certainly a no compromise build great work and it certanly must have been many hours of deliberation on what to do and what not to and the cost is a reflection ouch.
Thanks mate. Very much so. Lots of planning to get all the details right.
Mate how do you go with warranty, my toyota dealer said any aftermarket non-genuine products simple as diff breathers, bull bar suspension will void warranty WTF?
Yeah, it's not an easy one. At the end of the day you've gotta be comfortable with taking the risk. Hopefully it won't be an issue.
Looking good guys
Any chance you could tell people what products/ suppliers you actually paid for and what you didn't, not publicity paid.
There is alot more credibility & transparency in products that way.
Thanks
They do say during the video what they have paid for fully by themselves (bullbar, coil conversion)...
@@nealkt Yep, I'm talking the lot. Wheels ? Tyres ? etc. The full build !
These guys are definitely better than alot of others with this type of thing.
Thanks Scott. We'll try and remember as we go through but we'll also be goin through a cost breakdown at the end of the build 👍
In reality no more expense than a big rig that still will not be as purpose built. Are you going to do a brake upgrade? Six pot Brembos on the front would be good for a tow vehicle.
Glad someone get's it 😆 The Jmacx kit included braided lines and upgraded brake booster. I might look at the calipers, etc down the track.
I can’t help it, but you said there is nothing out there..Mate, (your making a sudo LC300,) in my view, for the money your spending (or given to you) buying a LC300 wagon and doing a VEOP gvm upgrade for $14k or Jmacx, you wouldn’t have to worry about sound deadening and half the other mods etc etc. It would be such a much better vehicle.
I disagree. If you compare the price of a 300 series with a GVM suspension upgrade to a 76 with a coil conversion the 76 is cheaper. The bull bar, snorkel, UHF, etc we'd do to what ever vehicle we bought. Sound deadening is about $1200 so not a huge outlay in the scheme of things.
@@TheLifestylePioneers I guess we will disagree then, which is totally OK. The 76 is probably similar specs to a LC300 GX, and you can get them for under 100k with coils. If I was your kids, I know what I’d prefer to sit in the back off. Cheers . Enjoy your build.
I can understand you buying a Toyota and getting rid of your Ford but wasn't your van purchased because of it's tare weight so seriously doubt that all these expensive mods you are doing are needed to be able to legally tow your van in any Australian state. You go on about costs but when you add it up you could have bought a new 300 series and had change. I just crossed the Simpson Desert in my stock standard GXL Prado no worries. Just don't get it Toyota spends millions developing these vehicles and you change the shit out of them for no reason. Love your channel but can we have a little less of your and Liz's head and more of the roads and landscape where your travelling after all that's what the video is about and please show the road signs so we've got an idea of where you are don't blur them out like all the other youtubers. Cheers Greg B.
Thanks for sharing your perspective, Greg. We'll be touching on a lot of your points in future videos. The price is similar to a 300 series GXL but with significantly more payload.
Don't forget more landscape and road shots less heads.
40k mod, That's the price of my car :)
Yep, it's a lot of coin!
Lots of $
Yeah, a couple.
I get the feeling toyota just ripped up your warranty!!!
Definitely on the suspension, but we have a warranty from Jmacx for their side of things.
so much money...
Yep, crazy expensive
So why with the coil spring upgrade? and all the other upgrades did you not just go and buy a new Ineos Grenadier?
Yes I know it’s got a small fuel tank.
We seriously considered the Grenadier and had one on order for some time but unfortunately the limited payload wasn't going to allow us to tow our 3500kg caravan.
Awesome! How much for the ppf wrap thinking of get my done soon too
Thanks! It depends what wrap you choose and how much of the vehicle you do. Best to contact John at Scrubs and he'll discuss the options with you. Mention you saw our video and he'll look after you 👍
If this is a Bentley I concur but wrapping on an agricultural 4wd like the 76? You meant to use it hard and be proud of mud and scratches. You should have purchased the LC300 instead.
@@DJTrumpMAGA doesn’t matter to use it hard or mall . As long as protect the from over scratch . Even after hard offroad and every wash I would like my car to look clean and less scratch. And I do lots of hardcore but still want my car to look clean and shine when I drive it to mall 😂 . It’s a personal preference. You can get your car scratch all around and call it a prove of doing hardcore but that’s definitely not me . I’m from Malaysia and been doing 4wd in rainforest for more than 30 years . Don’t give me a lesson what is hardcore haha 😛
Looking fantastic, can’t wait to see the final product. Have a great week. Cheers M
Thank you! Cheers!
Lookn good Simon & Liz
Cheers! Not a bad looking Landcruiser either 😉
So good!
Thanks mate.