LC4LIFE
Supporting Vendor
This is how I plan to replace mine...did the HF press the new ones in okay?
What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (90 Viewers)
This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate
links, including eBay, Amazon, Skimlinks, and others.
This is how I plan to replace mine...did the HF press the new ones in okay?
mingles
GOLD Star
HF 20 ton press put the new ones in just fine. I used emory cloth to dress up the inside of the holes in the arms and the new bushings went right in.
How did you apply the Chassis Saver? It looks really good.
COYS
SILVER Star
Spacex rocket sighting while in the 80 tonight... made me feel like I was riding on a dinosaur
wrong thread
ToyotaDon
I am here
M12X1.25 taps rarely even come in the professional tap and die sets. One way to get one is in an M10X1.25 Heli-coil kit. I can't verify it's exactly the right size, but it does work as a thread chaser.
The box in your picture looks factory, but it appears there is an aftermarket relay hanging next to it.
fj80rodngun
GOLD Star
Outsane
Supporting Vendor
Eplored the Carizzo area near Bakersfield, checked to see if I could rattle off these wheel center caps.
With a brush. I will prime and top coat the rear most section of the bumper that you will see once I put the cladding back on. I will use Rustoleum Professional Series spray paint for that.
- Joined
- Nov 30, 2017
- Threads
- 5
- Messages
- 82
- Location
- Dunwoody, Georgia
- Website
- www.thermalrecovery.com
Took my first long road trip with the younger son. Only 670 miles, but it was confidence building on my 238k ticker. May have taken a few too many glamour shots.
No pictures, sorry.
I took apart my intake and reinstalled hoping that was the cause of the vacuum leak and rough idle. I believe that the vacuum leak is one of the two hoses running from the valve cover to the intake manifold or the vacuum hose running from the manifold to the brake booster. I am going to do the carb cleaner trick or even soapy water.
But I did have my battery and alternator tested; the battery tested bad. So I replaced it with a Duralast Gold from Autozone. It is rated 750 CCA, 935 cranking amps, reserve capacity of 130, and most importantly 5-year warranty (3-year free replacement, 2-years prorated). The only issue I encountered was the negative terminal. It would not tighten down enough. So I flipped it over and insured there was enough slack in the negative cable so it would not come apart.
I took apart my intake and reinstalled hoping that was the cause of the vacuum leak and rough idle. I believe that the vacuum leak is one of the two hoses running from the valve cover to the intake manifold or the vacuum hose running from the manifold to the brake booster. I am going to do the carb cleaner trick or even soapy water.
But I did have my battery and alternator tested; the battery tested bad. So I replaced it with a Duralast Gold from Autozone. It is rated 750 CCA, 935 cranking amps, reserve capacity of 130, and most importantly 5-year warranty (3-year free replacement, 2-years prorated). The only issue I encountered was the negative terminal. It would not tighten down enough. So I flipped it over and insured there was enough slack in the negative cable so it would not come apart.
Been a busy weekend so far... And I still have tomorrow off.
- New shoes - Toyo Open Country AT2 285/75 R16's (local tire shop matched Amazon price so that saved me $50/tire)
- Tightened front wheel bearings to 25ft/lb inner nut, 47 ft/lb outer nut
- Topped off knuckles with moly grease
- Replaced all bushings in front control arms and panhard with OEM
- Cleaned front axle breather fitting
- Replaced rear end caps on running boards
- Added rechargeable motion sensing LED light bar to flip up window
New shoes
View attachment 1805678
Replaced control arm bushings. HF 20 ton press wasn't cutting it (safely) and so I pushed out the rubber with the press, used a sawzall to notch a section of the bushing sleeve, and then chiseled out the notch section. The old bushings practically fall out at that point.
View attachment 1805679
Running board end cap part numbers (because so many of us are trying to save our running boards
View attachment 1805680
Rechargeable light bar for LCP window. It came with internal mounting magnets that weren't worth crap, but I epoxied several neodymium magnets to the back and it holds tight to the adhesive metallic strip that came with the light.
The motion sensor works great! Open the side window or the rear hatch and the light comes on and stays lit as long as you are present. Close the window/hatch and 20 seconds later the light goes off. Motion sensor does not activate through glass, so walking around the vehicle won't set it off.
This is the light I used: https://www.amazon.com/Rechargeable...538961636&sr=8-3&keywords=78+led+closet+light
View attachment 1805682
Does the motion light activate when the window is closed and you are in the back? It would be great to find a motion that works ONLY when the window is open.
mingles
GOLD Star
Still working through that issue.
No effect if front seat passengers are moving around. Back seat passengers seem to set it off.
My solution to that is to make a partial shield around the motion sensor so that only activity from the rear (hatch and liftgate) will set it off. In my case, the stock rearmost dome light is buried above the attic rack stuff so I WANT the LED strip to come on when I open the rear liftgate and hatch. The light also has an optional daylight setting so that it will not activate regardless during daytime.
Made more progress. All of that painted stuff is going in this week. Still need to fill the rear end with foam and then Bondo over it, but everything else will last and I will be able to easily remove everything when the time comes to really deal with the rotten corners. This was the worst spot on the truck, by far and this will at least mitigate the issue for now.
The rear portion of the frame should now hold up as long as the truck does once I spray oil inside the cavities that the barn doors in the rear most body panel conceal. Those are weird. Why are they so big?
The rear portion of the frame should now hold up as long as the truck does once I spray oil inside the cavities that the barn doors in the rear most body panel conceal. Those are weird. Why are they so big?
The temperature finally dropped so the wife and I took the dogs out to the desert.
How were the beds in your cheap motel there? I'll bet the view was great in the morning, but not much privacy!
We had all the privacy you could ask for. No other campers within sight in any direction. The desert really can provide some solitude.
Finally passed the break in period today while I was out getting hurricane supplies here in NW FL. Window shutters up. Hopefully Michael doesn’t move any more west!
