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I did a touch up paint of the 80. I had all the paint failure corrected as well as having the side view mirrors done.

Hey everyone as you guys know the trail cleanup day has been moved to the 11th of May. I’ve talked about hosting a club camp out at my house down by the river at some of the meetings. I thought since a lot of people will be coming up closer my...

I am holding a big bash at my house Sat June 1. It started as a 50th birthday for a friend, and now will be an open invitation, come all bash and band party. My college rommmate invested in buying a share of music rights to a well known country...

Got my White Knuckle sliders on. 4th set of sliders, I put them on every build. I was nervous about the diesel fitment, but it worked out great. No cats to work around ;) I ordered the tilted / 69" full-length version, which still worked with my...

I forget about this section of the forum! A WV get together would be nice for sure. I wonder how many lurkers we have around Mud? I’ve been seeing a nice two-tone 60 with a 4x4 Labs bumper around Charleston. Nice clean rig! There’s also a chick...

I left out about 100 little things and that was about 4 months worth of work after my normal day job. Happy so far with the shakedown around my property but I'm taking it to Coalmont OHV park tomorrow for its first real outing. I will report back...

Plumbing a rear radiator is a pain, but I'm happy with how it turned out. I'm also using a Derale PWM fan controller.

From the get go I also wanted a rear radiator. Main reason was to get that huge heat source behind me in the summertime.

Sitting on its own weight for the first time. Designed and 3d printed some remote spacers.

Final assembled the front axle with new r&p and rebuilt the birfs.

Lengthen the steering shaft. adjusted the hydro assist mount. Added tube to reinforce the shock mounts. Tied in the tube a cut for the steering box. Added bump stops.

Final welded up the diff housing and installed. Checked with coilovers installed.

Had to turn down the heim spacers to match the thinner mount

Narrowed the panhard mount to allow more steering clearance at full stuff.

Moved the steering box

Welded up the rear frame mounts (at first everything was tacked but i didn't grab a picture then) played with panhard mount and steering geometry. Needed to move the steering box as I also was moving the whole front axle forward about 8 inches.

Cut spring hanger, prepped frame, and welded up the links.

Picked up a trailgear 3-link kit on black friday last year so started in on that.

Wheeled that setup for a while but also having an 80 series LC I got the itch to put some coils under it for more articulation and better ride.

One of the first mods I did was to make getting in and out a bit easier and better front seat for me and the wife. Also did a quick camo stripe paint job just for fun.

I bought this a few years ago which was built by another friend of mine who unfortunately passed away unexpectedly. Since owning it I have done a few things and will attempt to document those things in this build thread. As bought specs are: 1985...

Hello forum, Recently became interested in replacing my con-ferr roof rack on my 80 series. I like the racks available, especially the bowfin cruisers, but do not have $1k to spend on it. So I decided to design my own roof rack, the design is...