Overland Cruiser (Part 3): Shop Work
You can check out the other installments in this series here: Going Shop-Ping Toyota Land Cruisers may have a cult following, but most of the faithful wrench their own. And […]
Overland Cruiser (Part 2): Tooling Up and Tearing Down
Our project vehicle—a 1995 Toyota Land Cruiser named “Beast”—had 250,000-miles on the original engine. There were signs of a head gasket leak, a known issue with these engines at high […]
Overland Cruiser: Building and Outfitting for Adventure Travel
There’s travel, there’s adventure travel, and then there’s overlanding. Originally used to mean horseback cattle drives in the Australian outback, the term “overlanding” now refers to self-sufficient, vehicle-dependent adventure travel […]