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the dumbest thing you have ever done involving a Land Cruiser, the thing you said to yourself, WTF was I thinking!!!!!!!!!!!!
If it's OK with Dog Walker, lets say Monday I'll let him or the person of his choice judge to determine the dumbest thing posted for a LSLC cap.

There is a very nice 76 Cruiser here that belongs to one of my customers. (he has lots of $$$$) I did all of the work on it, and it is beautiful. SO SR 35's etc. It has an aluminum head LT1 with a thumper cam, fenderwell headers, and it sounds like a Winston Cup engine. He brings it up once a year and leaves it for a week or so, and has me service it and just go over it from end to end. He expects me to drive it and make sure everything is OK while I have it. One sunny Sunday afternoon, I had to run up to the O Reilly's auto parts store for something, had Oscar, the wifes min-schnauzer with me. There was 5 or 6 guys out front hanging out and they checked the FJ over pretty good while I was inside, they were impressed when I fired it up so I decided to show off a bit when I left, lit the tires up good in 1st, bang shifted into 2nd, and POW CRASH EEEEEKKKK, I struggled to control the rig with the rear tires locked up and managed to veer over towards the curb away from the oncoming traffic. We stopped with the RF tire barely onto the curb. I looked over at Oscar and he cocked his head like the RCA dog as if to say "Well that was interesting" I looked back and there was the driveshaft, pinion yoke still attached and a stream of 90 wt following us to the curb.
Yea, I broke a pinion on the street.
Had to catch a ride with one of the guys I was impressing to get the wrecker to retrieve the truck........bought some oil dry and swept up my mess......to this day the owner knows nothing of this, not that he would care:flipoff2: :flipoff2:
Butch
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The dumbest thing,

Iwas testing wires under the dash, the Cruiser was in gear, low range and I accidentally connected a hot wire to a starter wire:eek: By the time I figured out what was going on the Cruiser went thru the garage wall :emb4:

Then not too long after I was fooling around with some other wiring issues and reached over to turn the key... D'OOHHH!!:eek:
Two things I hadn't noticed...the rig was in gear and my daughter had pulled up and park her new Mitsubishi Eclipse right in front of me. :(
It's amazing how a Land Cruiser will crawl right up over the hood of an Eclipse:emb4: By the time I stopped it the grill, the hood and all it's lights were wasted !

Now-a-days when ever I work on wiring, I take all four wheels off the rig just to be safe:rolleyes: :D Just kidding, I don't do wiring anymore;)
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