We're going to take this 200 series land cruiser and turn it into a country crossing
track eating all-round weapon in just eight hours so right now it is just past 8am see how we go
the most important thing i'm looking at myself here do not scratch it because Joel has told me
that if it gets scratched whoever scratches it gets to be the little spoon on the camping trip
i'm gonna go scratch it and
first up the essentials we're fitting a Dominator Xtreme Winch because
this rig is built for 4-wheel driving
We're making it easy by removing the bull bar then fitting the winch
and a set of Kings 8 and a half inch laser driving lights all at the same time
before putting the winch back on and wiring everything up and that's the front end sorted
this is a 160 watt solar panel but the awesome thing is because it's frameless it's super low
in slim line which is exactly what we want for the top of the roof top ten we're arrow dying
the bolts on then using core flute for spacing and ultra strength tape to remove the air gap
The first step in installing your drawers of course is to put the frame in
you got to get a mate to help you out but i happen to find khan and hill he'll do i suppose now any
touring rig is only as good as its storage setup and to seriously beef up the storage
ability of the big 200 the boys are lobbing in and installing titan drawers in the back but if
you reckon this setup is good you've got to wait to see what we've got in store for it in a moment
yeah good man it's about to put the uh draw stops in so you don't lose your drawers again yes
At the same time Cahn's starting to put together the roof rack
since we'll need some way to mount the rooftop tent to the car
200 series uses captive nuts underneath the roof
which is the strongest possible way to mount a roof rack
Geez the drawer's looking good mate you've been smashing through it you know the main thing
you've got to do when you put these in you got to TITAN them that was terrible i'm really sorry
with that terrible joke out of the way let's get back to the storage
one fridge side is good so two must be better right we're installing a 60 litre
titan fridge slide on top of the titan drawer's inbuilt slide for a sweet double action setup
and just like that the drawers are finished well almost a third 900 millimetre drawer on top rounds
out the epic storage setup and while the boys are working on those last bits of the storage setup
i'm under the bonnet pretending to do a bit of wiring but actually stealing Joel's air
conditioning fuses from his fuse box hey beats having to buy them yourself right
in reality the wiring is coming together really easily since i'm using a Kings plug and play smart
harness these things are so easy that even a pork chop like myself who's taken more than a few hits
to the head over the years can easily figure things out and speaking of figuring things out
i've just figured out that i'm getting hungry surely it must be close to lunchtime now right
and after parking a couple of pizzas where they need to go it's time to lob back in
and that means doing the heavy lifting before the cheese sweats get a hold of us
up with the grand tour rooftop tent and on it bolts
this thing is seriously coming together now there's not a whole lot left to do
I love the bits of a project where you can step back for a second and realise that
you're getting close to the finish line it's a good bit of job satisfaction too
to continue taking jobs off the list and realise that you're almost there
all right that's perfect khan and the boys are getting stuck into the
very last bits of the 12-volt system including mounting the
rear electrical components underneath the drawers so they're out of the way
oh yeah and the DC charger and the 12 volt control box there's a bit of wiring to do here but we'll
leave it to Mr 12 volt himself and i'll go make myself useful sweeping the floors or something
i'm frothing seeing this electrical setup almost done we've even got time to finish
off the last bits like the wiring to the solar panel and the camp lights
and even though it's way after dark outside we are done
Have a look at this thing would ya what a dead set weapon you could easily cross the
Simo hit the Cape or Tassie do the high country anything you want in this thing
take a look at that and tell me that's not a dream rig right there
eight hours from stock to rock so we blew that eight hour time frame but we did get
the car finished just a bit too late to head to camp i can't wait to see this thing in action
it is going to eat up the tracks and it's going to look mint at the campsite well boys cheers to that