Auxiliary lights, spotties, whatever you want to call them, are one of the first modification people seem to make to their 4X4. For someone driving an older 4X4 I can understand it. The driving lights on older rigs like 40/60 series Landcruisers are just plain shithouse.
These days new rigs actually come with some pretty decent lighting, right out of the box, so there would be a heap of other mods I’d make before lights. But this is not a ‘why you shouldn’t fit spotties on your rig’ article, so let’s take a closer look at how you can pick the right auxiliary lights for your rig…
Having traveled around the countryside as a child for years in varying models of Toyota’s, it being the very model I was taught to drive in, it was almost inevitable that one day I was going to have a 62 series Landcruiser to call my own.
It didn’t take long for the spanners to come out and the mods underway. And the rest, as they say, is history…
Name: Shayne Tilley
Nickname: Tils
Place you call Home: Lilydale, Victoria, Australia
Years Driving Off-Road: 10+
This is the story of how and why I chose to install a chevy engine in my 60 series Landcruiser. I’ll share all the trials and tribulations I experienced which might just help you to not make the same mistakes I did.
Having a 350 chev driving the Landcruiser, it was inevitable that after 300,000+ kms the diff was going to let go at some stage. Luckily for me it was on a bitumen road, and close to home, so the drama of skidding to a halt was minimal. What amazed me more was how easy the diff is to replace…
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