75 series troopy

Stephen, good stuff - joining a club will be good.

There are a few must-haves and I'm sure other will have more.
First is to get a "Dougs tub" from a 4wd shop - plastic thing that makes the glovebox useful.

Secondly, buy the long handle shovel, and shove it up the round tube, behind the front bumper - usually fits perfectly. Drill a small hole in the shovel head, and an occy strap hook will retain it nicely.

Feel free to post questions - lots of people with 70series here.

Another important item to get
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Stephen,
Welcome aboard, now you will be seeing just how many 70 series there are around, particularly if you drive out of the city.

It does seem trivial but I agree with Phil's advice about "Doug's Tub" they cost about $30 but are great because without it everything just falls out of the glove box. After that you will have years of fun making improvements. A good set of metric tools would be handy. A workshop manual will also help.

Make sure you have recovery points both front and back. All the best and hope your truck is good fun. Sorry, I am from NSW and can't advise on mechanics in Melbourne.

Chris

Way to go Stephen?? Welcome to the flock !!

Hi Stephen,
Welcome to the Troopy family.
The rest of the family are on the money, once you've had one you'll never stray.

I'm on my second Troopy now, mind you I bought the first one in 1985. It was a 1983 model HJ75 fitted with the venerable 2H diesel. I bought my second one, a 2006 model in March last year.

They don't really need regular replacement like other lesser vehicles.

The complete list of modifications outlined by Phil G are really all you need, I have done both modifications to both my Troopy's.

Geoff

Yeah the Toyota Landcruiser Club (Vic) is a pretty good bunch with a great Driver Awareness Program conducted at our own property up at Yarck.

Good club for Troopy owners lots in the club so lots of good advice and support from like minded people. :-)

If you join look me up and say hello.

Cheers

Welcolme to the "Troopy Club" Steven!. I now have a 78 T/D but had two 75 series b4 that. Great vehicles, just keep changing the oils and filters and the old 1hz will run forever. Re your tyre wear, the only issue i had was scrubbing of the the inside of the front left tyre due to the camber of aussie roads. This can be fixed with a camber kit. It would be unusual if the rear tyres were to wear unevenly.
I use a blue tounge to and they are great. The uniden uhf fits perfectly into the space net to that fancy radio the troopy is famous for! :)
Good luck.
ps. the 1hz is not much good in sand, not enough power for the weight of the vehicle. so be real carefull on beaches.

Yep welcome to the troopy club. My contribution is if your vehicle has the 1FZ-FE 4.5lt petrol then it can be fitted with an old air con compressor for use as an air pump ( and I don't mean an Endless Air unit if they do one, by what I've seen of then they're too dear). It fits above the exhaust manifold. Bit of mucking around with the belt set-up. I've utilised my bull bar as an air tank. All works a treat.

My partner and I have bought a Troopy in order to travel around Australia a few times (no time limit).

First thing we found out is about suspension. Look at your shackels, they should sit almost straight up and down, max of about 5 degrees tilt in them, anymore and they are very likely due for a change.

We both paid to do a 4wd course (cost $400 for both of us here in Canberra) and it was money well spent. We also joined the local 4wd club and did thier 4wd course (again, well worth it).

Recovery gear for us (we have kept everything to bare essentials, so while you could get more gear, this is our bare essentials) is. 2 x 4t shackles. A hand winch, winch ext strap, tree hugger, snatch strap, holed shovel (kept in front tube), 2 x aluminium blocks (to hold straps in recovery points), gloves.
We keep all our recovery gear, plus some basic tools in an old army ammo box that sits in the bullbar on the front of the vehicle...this gives us better distribution of weight plus easy access to the gear if we need it.

Keep weight off the roof. If you have a roof rack only use it for light stuff.

Service the vehicle yourself, its pretty easy to do. A set of metric spanners up to 24mm should do you for most of it.
We had the front cabin soundproofed when we had the stereo installed. Cost about $500 and was money well spent, makes a huge difference to sound in the car.

Have some Black widow _Affordable_Storage_Drawers.aspx and water tank on the way and am considering spending the cash ($1500) on a passenger seat (with engineers certificate) because that 3/4 seat is crap.

Oh yeah, spend $200 upgrading the standard lights, we found the standards crap. We bought some halogen lights that use the same wiring loom but put out heaps mroe power, speak to ARB they served us well.

We bought a Bushranger compressor and are pretty happy with it.

I think thats it for now :) Im just considering replacing all the panels in the back with carpeted gal steel, for strength as that cardboard back there is crap.
Also we are trying to put up curtains, screws holding wire didnt work so we are now going to try a standard metal curtain rail affixed with clips stuck onto the wall. If all that fails, powerful magnets will have to do.

Hello Stephen Looking

Firstly, congratulations on making the best decision of your life.

Secondly I have THE best Troopy out there.

Live in Melbourne and my contact details are in my profile.

Fell free to contact me if you wish so we can discuss 'things' outside the purvue of the 'pink nissan mafia' and other would be's - if they could be's. (LOL)

Ms Lucy

You will be fine