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09-03-12, 09:21 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Boulder, CO
Posts: 572
| Front axle rebuilt.
Rear upper control arm bushings replaced.
Front sway bar bushings replaced.
Front drive shaft U-joints replaced.
Yes, the wife and kids were out of town!
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1996 LC, 225k, 861/862 w/ 1 in. spacers, factory locked, CDL, LEDs, ARB, JO1 IPFs, dual batteries, Engel 45. Kaymar-deer woods tested. Head Gasket done. SuperCharged.
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09-03-12, 10:15 PM
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#642 | | Forum Regular
Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
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| Hit MOAB this past weekend, took my five year old for the first time as well as my step son. We had a blast!
The good thing was that I got 14 mpg on the way down and back on the freeway!
The bad things is that we got through Kane Creek completely with one less rear window and losing a rear flare in the process.
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09-04-12, 02:11 AM
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#643 | | Supporting Vendor
Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Durango, Colorado
Posts: 2,399
| Determined a plan to fix this: Broken front radius arm hanger and hole in front axle housing.
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1997 40th Anniversary FZJ80, Locked, 315's General Grabber(summer) DuraTrac(studded for winter), Iron Man 2", 4.88's, ARB Bull Bar, Warn 12K w/3/8" Amsteel, IPF xs900, Metal Tech Sliders, IPOR Skid, 4x4 Labs rear bumper, LandTank LCA/MAF, Kenwood Sound/HAM/NAV/Bluetooth/Sirius, National Luna Dual Battery System, group 31x2, OEM Hand Throttle, Speski OffRoad Barrier, DBA Brakes, EMS Powered exhaust, and a Fridge. All holding up traffic towing a Starcraft 10R/T camper. | |
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09-04-12, 05:24 AM
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09-04-12, 05:42 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2012
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Originally Posted by Corbet  Determined a plan to fix this: Broken front radius arm hanger and hole in front axle housing. | Ouch... I also wonder how you did it! | |
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09-04-12, 06:23 AM
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#646 | | Supporting Vendor
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Originally Posted by fj4068 How did that happen? | Quote:
Originally Posted by o Tee o Ouch... I also wonder how you did it! | I think years of fatigue from hard wheeling? There was no smoking gun of a cause. Failed in town while DD.
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1997 40th Anniversary FZJ80, Locked, 315's General Grabber(summer) DuraTrac(studded for winter), Iron Man 2", 4.88's, ARB Bull Bar, Warn 12K w/3/8" Amsteel, IPF xs900, Metal Tech Sliders, IPOR Skid, 4x4 Labs rear bumper, LandTank LCA/MAF, Kenwood Sound/HAM/NAV/Bluetooth/Sirius, National Luna Dual Battery System, group 31x2, OEM Hand Throttle, Speski OffRoad Barrier, DBA Brakes, EMS Powered exhaust, and a Fridge. All holding up traffic towing a Starcraft 10R/T camper. | |
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09-04-12, 06:42 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Costa Mesa, CA
Posts: 72
| What did you do with your 80...
Returned from a trip to the Eastern Sierras, SF Bay Area, and then some rock hounding in the Mojave. Some photos of where we went.  
The truck is new to me (purchased about three weeks ago) and I'm still learning how it drives and updating fluids, etc. | |
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09-04-12, 06:54 AM
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#648 | | Lifer
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Scottsdale Arizona
Posts: 9,324
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Originally Posted by Corbet Determined a plan to fix this: Broken front radius arm hanger and hole in front axle housing. | Perfect time to flip the arms on top of the axle 
Glad you had a no drama with the breakage. 
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09-04-12, 07:04 AM
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#649 | | 250+ Club
Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Tacoma, WA
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Originally Posted by Corbet Determined a plan to fix this: Broken front radius arm hanger and hole in front axle housing. | Definitely makes me want to crawl under my rig and make sure mine are in good working order.
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09-04-12, 08:37 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Federal Way, Wa.
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| I decided I wanted a better idea of engine coolant temp., so I picked up a pillar guage pod off e-bay for an Acura, and with a little trimming it fit great! I'm amazed how much the temp. flucuates with the new guage, while staying in the same place with the stocker. Must be a Toyota thing, my Dad's Camry did the same thing. Filled the other hole with a boost guage. I'm going to have to pull it back off and paint it though, wish I had thought ahead !
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09-04-12, 08:39 AM
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#651 | | Forum Regular
Join Date: May 2012
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| Changed the oil. Replaced rear brake pads. Cake.
Then I drove it around and felt pleased with myself. | |
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09-04-12, 08:41 AM
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| Did the FJ45 run on the Sourgrass Trail...in my 80!  | |
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09-04-12, 03:39 PM
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| Steens, Oregon-Nevada border! God's Country.
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93 lkd,4:88s, 38s, 53 gls. to get there, dual batts, KayArbSleed, Element Awning nice bed, Solar, Room for us and the two boys and the princess!
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09-04-12, 04:53 PM
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09-04-12, 06:22 PM
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#655 | | Lifer
Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: flat earth Midwest
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Originally Posted by FJFOOL SNIP
I'm going to have to pull it back off and paint it though, wish I had thought ahead ! | I'd give that black a chance to grow on you. If it was me, the black would help it disappear when I'm not looking at the gauge. Maybe less glare, too, at certain sun angles.
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156k, ARB w/ XRC12, 255/85 R16 BFG MT KM2 on Toyota 16x8 steel rims, dual batteries/Hellroaring isolator w/ Blue Sea battery switch, dual inverters, OME 861/862, CDL switch w/ 7-pin mod, Temp gauge mod, cupholders!  , 8-ton pintle hitch w/ GI chain plate, blue-PHH, working power antenna, FSM, camper conversion drawer system
M101 CDN 1/4 ton 255/85 R16 BFG MT KM2 on FJ80 16x8 alloys w/ custom extra wide fenders, OD paint | |
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09-04-12, 08:02 PM
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#656 | | Supporting Vendor
Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Durango, Colorado
Posts: 2,399
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Originally Posted by LandCruiserPhil Perfect time to flip the arms on top of the axle
Glad you had a no drama with the breakage. | Yes, I'm happy I did not loose a radius arm while descending a mountain pass loaded with the family and towing the camper. That could have been exciting in a bad way. 
Now I guess I'm going to have to research this radius arm flip but I don't know if I need to add more work to the project.
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1997 40th Anniversary FZJ80, Locked, 315's General Grabber(summer) DuraTrac(studded for winter), Iron Man 2", 4.88's, ARB Bull Bar, Warn 12K w/3/8" Amsteel, IPF xs900, Metal Tech Sliders, IPOR Skid, 4x4 Labs rear bumper, LandTank LCA/MAF, Kenwood Sound/HAM/NAV/Bluetooth/Sirius, National Luna Dual Battery System, group 31x2, OEM Hand Throttle, Speski OffRoad Barrier, DBA Brakes, EMS Powered exhaust, and a Fridge. All holding up traffic towing a Starcraft 10R/T camper. | |
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09-04-12, 10:44 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Visalia, CA
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Originally Posted by jcardona1 Hit up a local OHV park with some buddies. La Grange, CA   | We drove right by there on Monday afternoon. You should have come up to the 45 run.  | |
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09-05-12, 05:15 AM
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#658 | | 250+ Club
Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Ontario, 13th State, Turks and Caicos Islands
Posts: 490
| Put gas in it, loaded the trailer with the lawn mower, drove it to the cottage.
Checked fluids, Rotated tires, checked caliper bolts (I saw another forum member had a caliper bolt come out last week),
Put the roof rack on so could bring her latest piece of furniture home....
It was a great "Last" weekend of summer. 
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'94 FZJ80, "Flo" DD. Functioning Antenna! Loaded, locked, stock (except Xenons, Bilsteins, storage, Jaos rack) for now. New OME's in waiting in the barn...
'96 AMG Hummer H1 wagon, Bone stock. Mom's toy.
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09-05-12, 05:21 AM
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#659 | | 250+ Club
Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: SF Bay Area
Posts: 370
| Disconnected the battery...
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09-05-12, 05:37 AM
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#660 | | Lifer
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Queens, NYC and sometimes Orlando, FL
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| Put a few miles on her  | |
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