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I’ve become the lucky owner of an very tidy 85 bronco. I’m in Australia so it’s RH drive. I’m not too sure what fuel (gas) costs over there but it’s $5.30 Australian per Gallon. So as some of you keen forum goers may remember I was pestering with many questions regarding the injection system on my 302. Long story short I ended up swapping it out for a new carby system. She’s running great. Sounds great but fuel is killing me. Because I’m an idiot I use it as a daily driver and it’s quite expensive. But I believe if you own an old car then you should drive and enjoy it, not keep it locked away in a shed.
More evidence I’m an idiot is I’ve began to dream of turning this rig into a long distance tourer (overlanding). Some shorter distance stuff too. I’m building this thing into a travelling / camping / over landing weapon. Exactly the best version of a bronco I can. These things are unbelievably good looking and quite rare over here.
For those that don’t know Australia is fucking huge, with a very large percentage of the population living on the coast. Much of our land is very remote, you could drive for two days with out seeing another soul. The Toyota land cruisers dominate in a big big way. They are indestructible and super reliable and economical.
IMO one of the best diesels Toyota made were a 12HT turbo diesel. This is a fairly common opinion all over the world really it seems. Strangely enough they only made them for I think a four year run. It’s not unheard of getting a million kms (620,000) miles.
Anyways I’m planning on running a 12ht preferably with an auto. I guess I’ll keep the original axles as I’m lead to believe they are quite strong.
I want to put as many toys and tricks into this thing as possible whilst keeping the thing true to her looks as possible.
Anyway I’ll post updates as things happen for anyone keen to play along at home.
Happy to take any advise or criticism. I don’t know a lot about these beauties apart from they are in the top 3 best looking 4x4s of all time!
More evidence I’m an idiot is I’ve began to dream of turning this rig into a long distance tourer (overlanding). Some shorter distance stuff too. I’m building this thing into a travelling / camping / over landing weapon. Exactly the best version of a bronco I can. These things are unbelievably good looking and quite rare over here.
For those that don’t know Australia is fucking huge, with a very large percentage of the population living on the coast. Much of our land is very remote, you could drive for two days with out seeing another soul. The Toyota land cruisers dominate in a big big way. They are indestructible and super reliable and economical.
IMO one of the best diesels Toyota made were a 12HT turbo diesel. This is a fairly common opinion all over the world really it seems. Strangely enough they only made them for I think a four year run. It’s not unheard of getting a million kms (620,000) miles.
Anyways I’m planning on running a 12ht preferably with an auto. I guess I’ll keep the original axles as I’m lead to believe they are quite strong.
I want to put as many toys and tricks into this thing as possible whilst keeping the thing true to her looks as possible.
Anyway I’ll post updates as things happen for anyone keen to play along at home.
Happy to take any advise or criticism. I don’t know a lot about these beauties apart from they are in the top 3 best looking 4x4s of all time!
