HAVE YOU BENT IT?

Have you bent your 80-Series Land Cruiser battery bar?

Here at Red Line Land Cruisers, we’ve been known mostly for our passion for the 40-Series Toyota Land Cruisers over the last 15 years! However, a new passion began for the 80-Series Land Cruisers when two were acquired in January 2017, as documented in the “The Tale of Two 80’s Build Thread” on IH8MUD. You know how it goes: wife, life, and kids happen; thus, the creature comforts become sought after versus being chopped off onto the floor for performance. We will forever have and love our primitive 40-Series, but our #RLLC80 80-Series has seen much more use over the last five years of adventurous pursuits!

What we found with our 80-Series was much more than soccer mom SUVs! We found WAY MORE! Aside from way more camping gear-hauling cabin space, we found more suspension travel! The #RLLC80 became outfitted with Icon Vehicle Dynamics 2.5 Piggy-Backs with 37″ tires allowing us to “haul ass” fully loaded across desert whoops and mountain washboard while covering big-mile tarmac trips in between these remote locations. Yes, the 80-Series has forever modified our Land Cruiser perspective, but we’ve also begun to modify our FJ80 & FZJ80s, pushing these sedate SUV sedans beyond their UN-Farm Aid / Mall Crawling duties. With our pursuits came the woes, and we want to fix our woes! If you know what this is and understand the issue, you align with our thoughts and reasoning behind our frustration with the 80-Series Land Cruiser battery situation.